Earlier this fall, James Reinders and I each gave concurrency webcast as part of Intel’s fall webcast series. On Monday, James and I are going to be following that up with a virtual Town Hall panel discussion on concurrency, with Dr. Dobb’s editor Jon Erickson as our moderator. Should be cool. And you are invited [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Concurrency Town Hall: On the web, this Monday, December 3
Posted in Concurrency on 2007-11-30 | Comments Off
Visual C++ Announcements in Barcelona: TR1 and MFC
Posted in C++ on 2007-11-10 | 12 Comments »
Note: Many of you who read this blog aren’t Windows developers. I think you might still be interested in skimming this announcement, because I think it matters to the cross-platform and global C++ community when major vendors are clearly still investing heavily in C++ and C++-based technologies, despite what some naysayers proclaim. How much does Microsoft [...]
Effective Concurrency: Avoid Calling Unknown Code While Inside a Critical Section
Posted in Concurrency on 2007-11-06 | 2 Comments »
The latest Effective Concurrency column, "Avoid Calling Unknown Code While Inside a Critical Section", just went live on DDJ’s site, and will also appear in the print magazine. Here’s a teaser from the article’s intro: Don’t walk blindly into a deadly embrace… Our world is built on modular, composable software. We routinely expect that we don’t [...]
Trip Report: October 2007 ISO C++ Standards Meeting
Posted in C++ on 2007-11-01 | 3 Comments »
The ISO C++ committee met in Kona on October 1-6. Here’s a quick summary of what we did, and information about upcoming meetings. What’s in C++0x, and When? As I’ve blogged before (most recently here and here), the ISO C++ committee is working on the first major revision to the C++ standard, informally called C++0x, which [...]
