Archive for July, 2010

Announcing the patterns & practices Symposium 2010

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 ...

New Parallel Demo Showing Different Patterns

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

I’ve upgraded the demo demo that goes with the TechEd 2010 parallel patterns talk. This is essentially the sample from Chapter 5 of “Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET” with additional work on on the UI to make it more “demoable”. Notably the UI is ...

Gotchas: The Profiler Uses Processor Resources Too!

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

I was doing some work on the Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET book yesterday. We’ve added some additional content to Appendix B to show some of the “visual patterns” that can tell you what’s wrong with your parallel code. Here’s one of those patterns… The image on the left ...

Øredev, Malmö, November 2010

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Looks like I’m going to be in Malmö in November for the Øredev Conference, 8-12 Nov. I’m doing two talks and expect to have some copies of our book to give out. Patterns of Parallel Programming (Thursday 10:15) Distributed Agile at Microsoft p&p (Friday 13:10) I ...

Parallel Programming with Microsoft® .NET

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

After a lot of really hard work from a lot of different people over the past month or so we now have a preliminary draft of the book available for download. The first thing you might notice is that… We’ve changed the title. Parallel Programming with ...