If you try to build soci-3.0.0 on ubuntu 8.10 you might get some annoying error. I list below the errors and their fixes:

common.h:24: error: ‘std::tm’ has not been declared

fix: add to common.h:

#include <ctime>

errors in file session.cpp:

session.cpp:134: error: ‘strtol’ is not a member of ‘std’

error: ‘INT_MAX’ was not declared in this scope

fix: add to session.cpp

#include <cstdlib>

#include <climits>

in file standard-into-type.cpp:

standard-into-type.cpp:84: error: ‘strncpy’ is not a member of ‘std’

fix:add to standard-into-type.cpp

#include <cstring>

Links related to the soci library:

• http://soci.sourceforge.net/
• http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Relational_Database_Access
• http://www.ddj.com/cpp/188700800?pgno=3
• http://erdani.org/publications/traits.html

Another ingredient for fast programs is JSON. The JSON format is a concurrent of XML and YAML. The later stays closer to JSON. I found so far two libraries for C++ that can parse and write JSON structures:

• http://jsoncpp.sourceforge.net/
• http://blog.beef.de/projects/tinyjson

… there are even further few listed on the homepage json.org

… There is even a query language jaql