Now that I’m over the icky flu that forced me to postpone the seminar two weeks ago, I’m happy to say that we have new dates: Effective Concurrency (Europe) will be held on May 27-29, 2009, in Stockholm, Sweden. I’ll cover the following topics: Fundamentals: Define basic concurrency goals and requirements • Understand applications’ scalability [...]
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New Dates for Effective Concurrency Seminar in Europe: May 27-29, Stockholm, Sweden
Posted in Concurrency, Software Development, Talks & Events on 2009-03-30 | 2 Comments »
RIP: SD Conferences
Posted in Software Development, Talks & Events on 2009-03-24 | 2 Comments »
The latest casualties in the technical education world are the Software Development conferences – SD West, SD Best Practices, and Architecture & Design World – which are being discontinued effective immediately, making the SD West that was just held earlier this month the last of its kind. The conferences were run by the same company [...]
Effective Concurrency: Use Threads Correctly = Isolation + Asynchronous Messages
Posted in Concurrency, Software Development on 2009-03-16 | 6 Comments »
This month’s Effective Concurrency column, “Use Threads Correctly = Isolation + Asynchronous Messages”, is now live on DDJ’s website. From the article: Explicit threads are undisciplined. They need some structure to keep them in line. In this column, we’re going to see what that structure is, as we motivate and illustrate best practices for using [...]
Postponed: Effective Concurrency Europe
Posted in Talks & Events on 2009-03-14 | 2 Comments »
Right now I should be at 40,000 feet somewhere over Baffin Island on my way to Stockholm for Effective Concurrency Europe, but instead I’m in bed with a fever that I’ve had since Wednesday night and still unable to talk. The organizer and I have been staying in touch with flu updates every few hours [...]
