Murder, Blood and Thread Safe Singletons

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

It’s Saturday and I’ve been working on my book on Parallel Programming, except for a brief break to go to CrossFit. Useful Piece of Information #1: Don’t do pull-ups until your hands are trashed if you’re planning on spending the afternoon typing. I had lots of useful ...

Patterns of Parallel Programming; “It’s not just a recompile”

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Last week Robert Hess interviewed me for the Knowledge Chamber on Channel 9. We talked about why understanding the fundamentals of patterns for writing parallel software is going to become more and more important over the next few years. Why simply recompiling your code for the latest processor from Intel ...

Summer Reading

Friday, September 4th, 2009

It's summer. I travel a bit more for work and take vacation. Both of which means there's more time to be found for reading. I spent a bunch of time sitting in a tent below the north face of Mount Tiedeman waiting for things to cool down ...

Thanksgiving Thanks To…

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Thanks to... Chris Kimball and NPR for their tips that helped in my quest to bake the perfect Raspberry pie for The Susan. The secret, as with all things, is in the alcohol you use. Seriously, the secret to a light crust is using more alcohol and less water. ...

Meme Time: Growing Up Geek

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

I've been tagged by Brian who was tagged by Brad who in turn was tagged by Scott Hanselman with his new "Growing Up Geek" meme. I guess I was always into taking things apart to see how they worked. Radios, toasters and bits of HiFi. Pretty much anything I came ...