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Print publications about Boost or Boost Libraries

[MaddockCleary00] John Maddock and Steve Cleary, C++ Type Traits. Dr. Dobb's Journal, Vol. 25, Issue 10, October, 2000, page 38. www.boost.org/libs/type_traits/c++_type_traits.htm
  
[Maddock01] John Maddock, Regular Expressions in C++. Dr. Dobb's Journal, Vol. 26, Issue 10, October, 2001, page 21.
[SiekLumsdaine01] Jeremy Siek and Andrew Lumsdaine, C++ Concept Checking. Dr. Dobb's Journal, Vol. 26, Issue 6, June, 2001, page 64.
  
[Karlsson02] Björn Karlsson, Smart Pointers in Boost. C/C++ Users Journal, April, 2002. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8014/cuj0204karlsson/
[Karlsson02a] Björn Karlsson, C/C++ Tip #9: Lexical Conversions. C/C++ Users Journal, November, 2002. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8470/cuj0211karlsson/
[Kempf02] Bill Kempf, The Boost.Threads Library. C/C++ Users Journal, May, 2002. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8013/cuj0205kempf/
[SiekLeeLumsdaine02] Jeremy Siek, Lie-Quan Lee and Andrew Lumsdaine, The Boost Graph Library. Addison-Wesley, 2002. ISBN: 0-201-72914-8. www.awprofessional.com/titles/0-201-72914-8/
A sample chapter is available at: tinyurl.com/24666
  
[AbrahamsGrosse-Kunstleve03] David Abrahams and Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve, Building Hybrid Systems with Boost.Python. C/C++ Users Journal, July, 2003. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8470/cuj0307abrahams/
[GuzmanNuffer03] Joel de Guzman and Dan Nuffer, The Spirit Library: Inline Parsing in C++. C/C++ Users Journal, September, 2003, Vol. 21, Issue 9, page 22.
[Karlsson03] Björn Karlsson, Lambda Expressions & C++. C/C++ Users Journal, December, 2003, Vol. 21, Issue 12, page 20.
[Sutter03] Herb Sutter, Generalized Function Pointers. C/C++ Users Journal, August, 2003. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8464/cujcexp0308sutter/
  
[AbrahamsGurtovoy04] David Abrahams and Aleksey Gurtovoy, C++ Template Metaprogramming: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques from Boost and Beyond. Addison-Wesley, November, 2004. ISBN: 0-321-22725-5. www.awprofessional.com/titles/0321227255/
Additional information and two sample chapters are available at: boost-consulting.com/tmpbook/
[Inaba04] Kazuhiro Inaba, Boost C++ Library Programming. Shuwa System, May, 2004. ISBN: 4-7980-0786-2. www.shuwasystem.co.jp/books/7980/0786-2/0786-2.html
Additional information and a sample chapter are available at: www.kmonos.net/pub/BoostBook/
[López04] Joaquín M López Muñoz, The Boost Multi-Index Containers Library. C/C++ Users Journal, September, 2004, Vol. 22, Issue 9, page 6.
  
[Karlsson05] Björn Karlsson, Beyond the C++ Standard Library: An Introduction to Boost. Addison-Wesley, August 31, 2005. ISBN: 0-3211-3354-4. www.awprofessional.com/titles/0321133544/
A sample chapter is available at: www.awprofessional.com/content/images/0321133544/samplechapter/karlsson_ch09.pdf

Online publications about Boost or Boost Libraries

[Brownell02] David Brownell, C++ Techniques for Tomorrow That Can be Implemented Today (a.k.a. Boosting your Code). NWCPP, November 13, 2002. www.nwcpp.org/Meetings/2002/11.html
[Long02] Matt Long, Adding Regular Expressions to Your App with Regex++. The Code Project, June 18, 2002. www.codeproject.com/string/regex__.asp
[Siek02] Jeremy G. Siek, The Boost Graph Library. InformIT, March 1, 2002. tinyurl.com/2hc27
[Siek02a] Jeremy G. Siek, A Boost Graph Library Tutorial. InformIT, March 1, 2002. tinyurl.com/2sa4s
  
[Abrahams03] David Abrahams, The Boost Metaprogramming Library. ACCU, 2003. www.boost-consulting.com/writing/ACCU_MPL_slides.ppt
[Dawes03] Beman Dawes, Multiplatform Software Development. 2003. www.esva.net/~beman/multiplat_dev.ppt
[Halleux03] Jonathan de Halleux, Opening a door towards Spirit: a parser framework. The Code Project, March 24, 2003. www.codeproject.com/cpp/spiritintro.asp
[Kaiser03] Hartmut Kaiser, Wave: a Standard conformant C++ preprocessor library. The Code Project, March 25, 2003. www.codeproject.com/cpp/wave_preprocessor.asp
[Trentini03] Matthew S. Trentini, Introduction to Boost.
[Walker03] Andrew Walker, An Introduction to Boost. The Code Project, July 7, 2003. www.codeproject.com/vcpp/stl/BoostIntro.asp
A short and straightforward introduction to Boost.
  
[Dawes04] Beman Dawes, Boost for Visual C++ Developers. MSDN, May 17, 2004. tinyurl.com/2lzyh
[D'Agostino04] Jim D'Agostino, Designing Robust Objects with Boost. The Code Project, August 17, 2004. www.codeproject.com/cpp/Designing_Robust_Objects.asp
[Handley04] Dave Handley, An Introduction to the Boost Spirit Parser framework. The Code Project, October 9, 2004. www.codeproject.com/vcpp/stl/introduction_spirit.asp
[Handley04a] Dave Handley, Implementing Semantic Actions in the Boost Spirit Parser Framework. The Code Project, October 10, 2004. www.codeproject.com/vcpp/stl/spirit_semantic_actions.asp
[Hauptmann04] Peter Hauptmann, Smart Pointers to boost your code. The Code Project, September 27, 2004. www.codeproject.com/vcpp/stl/boostsmartptr.asp
[Hauptmann04a] Peter Hauptmann, boost 2: shared_ptr wraps resource handles. The Code Project, October 4, 2004. www.codeproject.com/vcpp/stl/boostsp_handleref.asp
[Wikipedia04] Wikipedia, Boost. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2004. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost_(programming)
[Witt04] Thomas Witt, The Boost Iterator Library. ACCU Spring Conference, 2004. www.accu.org/conference/presentations/Witt_-_Boost_Iterator_Library.pdf
  
[Karlsson05a] Bjorn Karlsson, How the Boost Bind Library Can Improve Your C++ Programs. InformIT, August 26, 2005. http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=412354
[Cogswell05] Jeff Cogswell, Adding an Easy File Save and File Load Mechanism to Your C++ Program. InformIT, July 1, 2005. http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=398702
Explains Boost.Serialization.
[Gurtovoy05] Aleksey Gurtovoy and David Abrahams An In-Depth Look at Metafunctions in C++. InformIT, April 1, 2005. http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=375705

Print mentions of Boost or Boost Libraries

[HyslopSutter01] Jim Hyslop and Herb Sutter, Conversations: I'd Hold Anything for You. C/C++ Users Journal, December, 2001. www.cuj.com/documents/s=7988/cujcexp1912hyslop/
boost::any
[Meyers01] Scott Meyers, Item 50: Familiarize yourself with STL-related web sites. Effective STL, Addison-Wesley, 2001, page 221. ISBN: 0-201-74962-9
[Sutter01] Herb Sutter, The String Formatters of Manor Farm. C/C++ Users Journal, Vol. 19, November, 2001. www.gotw.ca/publications/mill19.htm
boost::lexical_cast
  
[Ablavsky02] Vitaly Ablavsky, Applying BGL to Computational Geometry. C/C++ Users Journal, August, 2002. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8470/cuj0208ablavsky/
[Alexandrescu02] Andrei Alexandrescu, Generic<Programming>: Efficient Generic Sorting and Searching in C++ (I): In Search of a Better Search. C/C++ Users Journal, October, 2002. www.cuj.com/documents/s=7978/cujcexp2010alexandr/
boost::type_traits
[HyslopSutter02] Jim Hyslop and Herb Sutter, Conversations: Getting to the Point. C/C++ Users Journal, July, 2002. www.cuj.com/documents/s=7981/cujcexp2007hyslop/
smart pointer discussion. boost::scoped_ptr, shared_ptr, scoped_array, shared_array.
[Sutter02] Herb Sutter, The New C++: The Group of Seven - Extensions under Consideration for the C++ Standard Library. C/C++ Users Journal, April, 2002. www.cuj.com/documents/s=7984/cujcexp2004sutter/
[Sutter02a] Herb Sutter, The New C++: Smart(er) Pointers. C/C++ Users Journal, August, 2002. www.cuj.com/documents/s=7980/cujcexp2008sutter/
  
[Besser03] Mitch Besser, Generic Printable ENUM++. C/C++ Users Journal, June, 2003. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8470/cujboost0306besser/
Mentions BOOST_PP
[Nasonov03] Alexander Nasonov, I/O System: dynamic_any Campaign. C/C++ Users Journal, September, 2003. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8470/cujweb0309nasonov/
Improved boost::any
[Sutter03a] Herb Sutter, Generalizing Observer. C/C++ Users Journal, September, 2003. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8840/cujexp0309sutter/
[Tan03] Kwee H. Tan, Exploring EDA Algorithms with the Boost Graph Library. C/C++ Users Journal, July, 2003. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8470/cuj0307tan/
[VandervoordeJosuttis03] David Vandevoorde and Nicolai M. Josuttis, Using Templates in Practice. C/C++ Users Journal, February, 2003. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8208/cujweb0302vandevoorde/web0302b.htm
Concept Check Library
  
[Meyers05] Scott Meyers, Item 55: Familiarize yourself with Boost. Effective C++, 3rd Edition, Addison-Wesley, May 12, 2005. ISBN: 0-321-33487-6

Online mentions of Boost or Boost Libraries

[Siek01] Jeremy G. Siek, An Implementation of Graph Isomorphism Testing, December 9, 2001. www.boost.org/libs/graph/doc/isomorphism-impl.pdf
  
[Burnap02] Steven R. Burnap, Boost::any, Kuro5hin, May 1, 2002. www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/5/1/142321/9513
[Carbon02] David S?, Boost : The handy library of handy libraries. Kuro5hin, July 18, 2002. www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/7/18/3313/01429
[Curran02] James Curran, Access Raw Data with Performance Counters in Visual C++. DevX.com, October, 2002. www.devx.com/cplus/article/7951
Devotes several paragraphs to boost::shared_ptr<>.
[Siek02b] Jeremy G. Siek, Internet Packet Routing with the Boost Graph Library. InformIT, March 1, 2002. tinyurl.com/26dwj
  
[Casad03] Joe Casad, Introducing the Boost Corner. C/C++ Users Journal, August, 2003. www.cuj.com/documents/s=8470/cuj0308boostcorner/
[Lischner03] Ray Lischner, C++: Beyond the Standard Library. O'Reilly Network, May 6, 2003. www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/3683
Mentions tuples, shared_ptr, lambda, spirit.
  
[Inaba04a] Kazuhiro Inaba, Let's Boost. 2004. www.kmonos.net/alang/boost/
[Stein04]

Sebastian Stein, How to use Boost Test for automated testing. 2004. www.hpfsc.de/boosttest/

  
[Lindrud05] Jarl Lindrud, RMI for C++. The Code Project, April 11, 2005. www.codeproject.com/threads/RMI_For_Cpp.asp
Uses Boost.Serialization.

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