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Archive for August 2011

Parallel Microsoft-Style

Posted on Monday, August 22, 2011 at 10:25 PM by Malcolm

"Actors avoid the dangers of the shared-memory model because they touch only the data that's sent to them in messages. If they need some external data, they request it from other actors (by sending the request in the form of a message). In addition, the data actors receive is immutable. They don't change the data, rather they copy it and transform the copy. In this way, no two threads are ever contending for access to the same data item, nor are their internal operations interfering with one another. As a result, the nightmares I described earlier disappear almost completely."

This article from Dr. Dobb Journal discussed how the actor model of concurrency is gaining favor in Java but remains largely ignored by Microsoft.

Edited on: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 10:31 AM

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Google Instant Pages

Posted on Saturday, August 20, 2011 at 10:55 PM by Malcolm



Google Instant Pages is now on by default in the latest stable version of Chrome. This means that sometimes when you click a Google search result in Chrome, the page will appear to load much faster than before. The video above shows a side by side comparison of Chrome with and without Instant Pages enabled.

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Smart Sheet

Posted on Friday, August 19, 2011 at 11:23 PM by Malcolm


Smartsheet is used by thousands of companies for online project management, task management, and many other types of work. Edited on: Thursday, September 08, 2011 10:52 AM

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