Archive for October, 2010

Geek Vacation Day #4: GTC Highlights

Monday, October 11th, 2010

So after the dust has settled and I’m back in not quite so sunny Seattle what were the highlights from GTC? Keynotes: 3D and the Cure for Cancer I was really impressed by the keynotes and wish I could have stayed for the final one on Thursday evening ...

Three New Books from patterns & practices

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

A whole lot of books p&p have been working on for the past few months finally arrived in building 5 yesterday and showed up on Amazon at about the same time. ...

C++Ox, Lambdas and Lots of Brackets

Friday, October 1st, 2010

The p&p dev team today had a random C++ moment (don’t worry it doesn’t happen often). I’ve been playing around with C++, writing samples for “Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual C++” and am a big fan of the new C++0x lambda syntax. It does however make heavy use of brackets. The ...