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Kitware Developer blog launched

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CMake - cross-platform build systemA few minutes ago, Bill Hoffman from Kitware posted short message to the CMake project mailing list with an interesting announce:

Kitware launched its first developer blog today with contributions from Company technical and business leaders.

The CMake build system is one of the main category of topics on the Kitware blog, so I presume it may be of interest of OSGeo Community as the CMake build system is slowly winning over more and more folks here :-)

First CMake-related post is about Deploying on Windows with DLL Manifest Issue

Another interesting post on the blog is Will Schroeder‘s answer to the question Why Open Source Will Rule Scientific Computing? It’s really worth reading.

QGIS tracks on BoostCon’09

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In one of presentations from this year’s edition of BoostCon, I found a small track of Quantum GIS project. This is Bill Hoffman‘s presentation titled A CMake-Based Software Process for Development and Integration Testing (PDF) and the track is citation taken from Martin Dobias’ blog post Having fun with CMake:

I was quite surprised with the speed of building Quantum GIS codebase in comparison to Autotools.

All presentations from the BoostCon’09 are available to download including Barend‘s slides and article with about Generic Geometry Library. There are much more interesting materials from the conference available and as another one somehow related to geospatial works, I’d like to point Graphics Programming Workshop about programming with Adobe’s Graphics Interface Library which is a part of Boost C++ Libraries (>= 1.35.0). There are both, slides and source codes, available to download.