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This one’s just a bit of “fun” for a Friday afternoon ( depending on how you define “fun” ). I was writing some asynchronous code yesterday in JavaScript and I then had cause to duplicate it in .NET using the await support of the Async CTP which I’ve tried to write about before ( generally and combined...
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I’ve just finished reading through Adam Freeman’s “Pro .NET 4 Parallel Programming in C#” book and I thought I’d give it a bit of a shout out. I’ve had a bit of a pause in reading technical books lately but the nice folks at Apress were kind enough to send me a copy of Adam’s book and so I thought the...
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One of the comments on this blog last week when I posted around the release of the Reactive Extensions (Rx) was; “Any chance you could provide a "brief" overview of where TPL, Rx and Async CTP all hang together??” ( that’s the Task Parallel Library , the Reactive Extensions and the Async CTP...
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Yeah, I know – another cheesy title for a blog post I downloaded the CTP of asynchronous support in C# along with the corresponding specification as described by Anders in his recent PDC 2010 session . This has already been explained elsewhere so this post is mainly just my own thoughts on tinkering...
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The Parallel developer centre on MSDN has a growing number of whitepapers that are really worth delving into. I’d started reading this one ( it’s a big one but worthwhile ); Patterns for Parallel Programming- Understanding and Applying Parallel Patterns with the .NET Framework 4 before I’d realised that...
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The sessions from the client development day at TechDays UK are available. I’ve brought them together here but you can also visit the TechDays site to grab slide-decks and other resources; “The Client Decade” Marc Holmes , Microsoft “Visual Studio 2010 and WPF 4.0” Ian Griffiths , Interact Software ...
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It was very warm and humid last night in Manchester, UK and so I sat up late catching up on a whole bunch of blog-reading that I haven’t done for a few weeks. I tend to use my blog-reader ( FeedDemon ) in the same way that I use Outlook. I go through everything, delete anything I’m less interested in...
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Meanwhile, over in a corner of the internet; http://blogs.msdn.com/pfxteam/archive/2009/03/27/9514938.aspx news starts to leak out about what the Parallel Extensions might look like in Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010. Does this mean a beta is on its way? Stay tuned… (no, I don’t know either :-)). I’m liking...
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I did a couple of sessions at DevWeek this week and had a really good time meeting up with various folks and chatting about technologies. My sessions were on; VB and C# in Visual Studio 2010 Parallel Extensions in Visual Studio 2010 Silverlight and HTML/Javascript interoperability (in Silverlight 2)...
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A big thanks to all the people who came along to my talk on Parallel Extensions at the NxtGen User Group in Coventry last night. The slides that were used should be visible up on SlideShare if you want them for any reason. Note to self: “Coventry is not ‘right next to Birmingham’ and is actually 100...
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I’ve published the slides from my . NET Dev Net talk this evening on the Parallel Extensions to .NET. They’re here; http://www.slideshare.net/ukdpe/miketaultypfxslideshare The slides aren’t too bad – to be honest, the talk wasn’t my best ever as I broke one of my own golden rules in that I hadn’t got...
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Normally when I come across a new blog that looks interesting, I just add it to my NewsReader ( FeedDemon ) and go about my merry way. The other day I came across a blog I hadn't seen before for the Software Transactional Memory team who are working within the Parallel Computing Team ( where Daniel went...