Easy Concurrency with Stackless Python (Saturday, October 03, 2009) - Since messing around with Erlang over the last couple months I've been very impressed with it's simplicity in managing concurrency. Erlang's message passing infrastructure really allows developers to have the locking just work without doing anything unnatural in code for synchronization. You almost let the problems define the locking behavior for you. Such elegance
Asynchronous and remote execution with powershell 2 ctp3 (Tuesday, June 30, 2009) - An interesting feature released with the PowerShell 2 CTP3 is the ability to run background jobs consisting of arbitrary PowerShell code. In order to use this functionality you must download and install the PowerShell 2 CTP3 and the WinRM (Windows Remote Management) 2.0 CTP. Keep in mind that installing the CTP requires uninstalling previous versions of PowerShell.
Parallel Programming with the Task Parallel Library and PLINQ in .Net 4.0 (Monday, December 14, 2009) - It's no secret that parallel computing is becoming more important. As clock speeds have stagnated and the number of cores per die have increased one thing has become clear. Software developers have to adapt to the current state of processors by writing code that's more parallelizable. In the past many programmers have avoided parallel processing when possible
Asynchronous Programming in Cocoa Touch (Sunday, January 17, 2010) - It's unavoidable. Pretty much anywhere you go as a programmer these days concurrency is important. It's no less important on mobile platforms like the iPhone. In this post I intend to outline the fundamental techniques necessary for asynchronous programming on the iPhone. While these techniques could very well apply to standard, desktop Cocoa I'll focus on Cocoa
