The message passing (MP) paradigm is often seen as a superior alternative to the typical mix of idioms in concurrent (shared-memory, locks) and distributed programming (CORBA/RMI). MP eliminates worries endemic to the shared-memory mindset: lock ordering, failure-coupling, low-level data races and memory models. It simplifies synchronization between data and control …
Jeff Scudder goes over how to install and get started with the Google Data Python Client Library. Google Data APIs Python Client Library
In this third episode, Stephen Walther and Charlie Poole build tests that verify that their blog can return blog entries. They build unit tests for the case when there are no entries returned and the case when a single entry is returned. http://www.asp.net/learn/mvc-videos/video-407.aspx
Monkeybars is a JRuby library that gives Ruby developers easy access to the world of Swing GUI development. Much of the complexity of Swing is removed and appropriately Ruby-ized. There is an emphasis on testability and better decomposition of apps that are historically notoriously difficult to test. This talk will …
In this second episode, Stephen Walther and Charlie Poole create the ASP.NET MVC application with Visual Studio and run their first unit tests with NUnit. Charlie Poole explains that you can take shorter or longer steps when testing depending on your confidence level. http://www.asp.net/learn/mvc-videos/video-406.aspx
With the growth of faster and cheaper low-power processors and inexpensive RAM, the days where embedded applications had to be developed in C or assembler are numbered. For many applications, it is now possible to provide excellent performance with software written primarily in our favorite language, Ruby. There are, however, …