Archive for the ‘ Patterns ’ Category

Dynamic Async Batching with PFX

The PFX Team blog has been posting some excellent articles recently on the subject of task batching using the June 2008 CTP release of the Task Parallel Library. It’s really cool to see some of these techniques abstracted properly in .Net, and I hope it eventually becomes part of the core libraries. I’ve been playing around [ READ MORE ]

C# 3.0, Parallel LINQ, And The Betfair API – An Introduction

My pal Jan has a habit of waxing lyrical about the wonders of Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) as soon as you make the mistake of mentioning multithreading within earshot. I’ve been playing around with .Net 3.5 recently, and I write a lot of async code day-to-day when struggling to keep desktop webservice clients responsive when making [ READ MORE ]

Coding by Convention

I’ve been meaning for a while to have a play around with Ruby on Rails, on the basis that anything generating so much hype over the last year or two deserves some level of investigation, if only to see whether the hype is justified. So, I spent a couple of days working through Agile [ READ MORE ]

Technical Book Club

Back in October, personal finance blogger Trent at The Simple Dollar started an online book club for one of his favourite finance books. Good idea, I thought, so I’m nicking it. Starting in January, I’m running a technical book club at work with a few .Net devs, and I’ll write everything up and post it [ READ MORE ]