Archive for April, 2010

A Guide to Parallel Programming – Drafts of Preface and Chapter 1

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

We’ve just dropped the preface and first chapter  to the Parallel Programming Guide to CodePlex site. This is in addition to chapters 2 & 5 which released last week. Preface This book describes patterns for parallel programming, with code examples that use the Parallel Extensions of .NET Framework 4.0 and the ...

Enterprise Library 5.0 Released

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

Yesterday Enterprise Library 5.0 went live on MSDN. If you’re building significant line of business applications on the .NET platform EntLib is there to help. “Enterprise Library is a collection of reusable software components (application blocks) designed to assist software developers with common enterprise development challenges (such as logging, validation, caching, exception ...

Seattle Code Camp

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

I’ve put the decks for today’s talks online you can download them. Due to the erupting volcano in Iceland Tiberiu Covaci couldn’t make Code Camp so Reed Copsey and I filled in the gaps. Talk Videos will be appearing here soon. Fast… Faster… FASTER! Adventures in ...

A Guide to Parallel Programming – Drafts of Chapters 2 and 5

Friday, April 16th, 2010

We’ve just dropped the first two chapters and sample code to the Parallel Programming Guide to CodePlex site. We have a group of advisors helping us with the content but if you you’re interested in reading what we have so far and providing feedback on it then ...

Seattle Code Camp is Coming

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

My talk, “Fast… Faster… FASTER!” got accepted at Seattle Code Camp. I’ll be speaking at 10:15 on Saturday 17th. In a rare display of organization I’ve even started writing the deck with a little help from Banksy on the graphics. I’ll also be putting some more of the source code ...