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Monthly Archives: July 2013
Don’t store this for too long
Windows Store App Development: C# and XAML by Pete Brown It would be really hard not to give this 600 page book a solid five out of five stars. Previously I’d read the author’s Silverlight book that provided a very … Continue reading
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More, more, more
More Effective C++ by Scott Meyers I’ve written a fair amount of C in my time, but have needed to write C++ for the last few months at work – I’m currently working on the core of ANTS Memory Profiler … Continue reading
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Haswell, will end well?
TheRegister has a good article on the new Haswell processor architecture from Intel. I was particularly interested in the Transactional Synchronization eXtensions, a new set of instructions that try to optimise concurrent programs, either by giving the CPU a chance … Continue reading
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Go…go…go… but only at the right time
Rich Hickey has gone and done it again! He’s borrowed some ideas from other languages, reorganised them and then added them as language constructs into Clojure. In this case the new experimental core.async library for Clojure. Clojure has a number … Continue reading
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Where worlds collide
At work, we came across one of those interesting situations where two different abstractions look at the same type in different ways, making things fine if you view the type through one abstraction, but confusing it you know about both. … Continue reading
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Time for a rest
It’ll soon be time for my six week sabbatical, so I’ve decided to start reading Iain M. Banks’ Culture series. At the same time, I’ve been trying to prepare for time off by getting up to date with Windows Store … Continue reading
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Thirty years tapping a keyboard 