Tim Anderson asks why there are so many developers still using VC6... Well, as I said before, if you produce C++ software in source code form and any of your clients require that you support VC6 then it's often easier to maintain the project files in VC6 (and thus use that as your day to day development tool) than it is to use any of the newer compilers. The reason for this is that all of the newer releases will read and convert VC6 project files but none of them will write out project files that work with earlier releases.…

I've just made a small change to The Server Framework. The change is in how the AsyncConnect() function reports connection errors and the potential problem can occur if there's a race condition between a call to Close() on a socket that has not yet successfully connected. If the call to Close() completes before connection is attempted by the IO thread pool (possible but usually unlikely in normal operation) then the connection failure doesn't currently make its way back to OnOutgoingConnectionFailed() which means that any code you might have in there for dealing with connection failures wont get called...…

I've just had an question from a reader via email: "I'm developing my huge server (I dont have much experience with programming servers) and as far as I know your source is the best available out there.. I would like fit it to my needs and use more c++ standard template libary instead of those buffer/linked list classes you made by yourself, but I'm afraid it would end in loss of preformance speed.. Would it be okay/worse to use instead of your buffer class and instead of those nodes? I also use boost libaries and would definetly include them in…

Meanwhile, I'll continue doing slalom training in Tignes in the French alps... Beware, those poles are addictive!…