Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
It’s been about eight months in the making but I’m very happy to announce that Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET: Design patterns for Decomposition, and Coordination on Multicore Architectures is now available! The book uses design patterns to help developers use the .NET 4 Task Parallel Library (TPL) ...
Tags: p&p, Parallel book, Parallel Computing, Patterns
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
We’ve been working with the F# Team to get the samples for Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET ported to F#. I’m happy to say these are going live today, just in time for the book launch. You can download them from the Parallel Patterns CodePlex site direct from ...
Tags: F#, p&p, Parallel book, Parallel Computing, Patterns
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
A week or two back I blogged about this year’s p&p Symposium. The keynote speakers have now been announced as well as more details of the event. ...
Tags: Events, p&p, p&p Symposium 2010
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
It’s that time of year when everyone at patterns & practices starts to think about this year’s p&p Summit. Our regular get together with users and community members from around the World. We’re changing things around a bit this year and the first big difference is the name. This ...
Tags: Events, p&p, Parallel Computing
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Monday, May 31st, 2010
We’ve just dropped another two chapters and sample code to the Parallel Programming Guide to CodePlex site. These next two draft chapters are: Chapter 3 Parallel Tasks Chapter 2 shows how you can use a parallel loop to ...
Tags: Events, p&p, Parallel book, Parallel Computing, Visual Studio
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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 ...
Tags: Events, p&p, Parallel book, Parallel Computing, Visual Studio
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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 ...
Tags: EntLib, Events, p&p
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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 ...
Tags: Events, NBody.net, p&p, Parallel Computing, Performance
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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 ...
Tags: Events, p&p, Parallel book, Parallel Computing, Visual Studio
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
Since running the Patterns of Parallel Programming Workshop at PDC 2009 we (patterns & practices) have been working on what to do next to help people understand the opportunities and challenges afforded by parallelism and some of the new features of Visual Studio 2010. We’re in the process of ...
Tags: p&p, Parallel book, Parallel Computing, Patterns, Visual Studio
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