C++ and Beyond 2010 (October 24-27) is filling up quickly. As of this writing, nearly 40 of the 60 places have been taken since registration opened last month. If you’re thinking of registering, it would probably be good to do it soon. 60 attendees is a hard limit; as I’ve written before, we want to [...]
Archive for May, 2010
C++ and Beyond: About 2/3 Full
Posted in C++, Talks & Events on 2010-05-28 | 2 Comments »
Effective Concurrency: Associate Mutexes with Data to Prevent Races
Posted in Concurrency, Software Development on 2010-05-24 | 10 Comments »
This month’s Effective Concurrency column, Associate Mutexes with Data to Prevent Races”, is now live on DDJ’s website. From the article: Come together: Associate mutexes with the data they protect, and you can make your code race-free by construction Race conditions are one of the worst plagues of concurrent code: They can cause disastrous effects [...]
The “You Call This Journalism?” Department
Posted in Apple, Opinion & Editorial on 2010-05-07 | 2 Comments »
The Inquirer isn’t normally this silly, and it isn’t even April 1. Nick Farrell writes: Why Apple might regret the Ipad [sic] THE IPAD HAS DOOMED Apple, according to market anlaysts [sic] that are expecting the tablet to spell trouble for its maker. … Rather than killing off the netbook, the Ipad [sic] is harming [...]
May 12 Webinar on Multicore Parallelism
Posted in Concurrency, Software Development, Talks & Events on 2010-05-06 | 4 Comments »
Next week, I’m giving a webinar with Intel’s James Reinders, and we’ll be available for a live Q&A session with you at the end: Five Years Since Free Lunches: Making Use of Multicore Parallelism May 12, 2010 at 8 a.m. PT/11 a.m. ET. Reflecting on the five years since "The Free Lunch is Over" article [...]
Links I enjoyed this week: Flash and HTML5
Posted in Friday Thoughts, Opinion & Editorial, Software Development, Web on 2010-05-06 | 1 Comment »
These are the two best links I’ve read in the wake of the Flash and HTML5 brouhaha(s). They discuss other informative points too, but their biggest value lies in discussing three things, to which I’ll offer the answers that make the most sense to me: What is the web, really? “The web” is the cross-linked [...]
