Like many areas in the United States, Seattle has recently been hit with layoffs and downsizing in our industry. So it’s quite timely that Steve McConnell’s company Construx, in the Seattle area, is offering free training for laid-off software workers: After listening to doom and gloom economic reports for the past few months, we decided [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Free Training For Laid-Off Developers
Posted in C++, Concurrency, Software Development, Talks & Events on 2009-02-26 | 4 Comments »
Effective Concurrency: Sharing Is the Root of All Contention
Posted in Concurrency, Software Development on 2009-02-13 | 1 Comment »
This month’s Effective Concurrency column, “Sharing Is the Root of All Contention”, is now live on DDJ’s website. This article aims to address the root cause behind some frequently made assertions: Statements like “locks kill scalability” and “CAS kills scalability” are mostly true but focus on symptoms rather than causes; and others such as “reader/writer [...]
Income in Perspective: 2 Bppl @ $3/day
Posted in Friday Thoughts, Opinion & Editorial on 2009-02-06 | 4 Comments »
I just saw a CNN headline that read: “Young workers scrimp to live on $15/wk.” Before reading further, what do you think: Is that stunning and shocking? Or shockingly typical? The story turned out to be a piece about white-collar workers in China trying to live frugally, spending only 100 Yuan on travel and food [...]
