From a certain angle and distance, Gateshead’s Sage Centre looks like a trio of gigantic glass-domed snails, statically perched on the southern bank of the river Tyne. The swooping curved structure is home to all things cultural including evenings with ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings and er… Gazza and Jimmy Greaves, the former [...]
Next week, programmers and others interested in making money from apps will have a unique opportunity to grill Intel’s experts at a free event in London. The Application Lab takes place from 6.30pm next Tuesday (5 July) in Islington, London, and is free to attend. You’ll get a chance to find out about MeeGo, the [...]Did you know that you can get a free loan of hardware from Intel to help with your software development or marketing? If you’re based in Europe, the Middle East or Africa, and are a member of the Intel Software Partner Program, you can participate in the Hardware System Loaner scheme and borrow selected hardware [...]Just recently, Martin Odersky, the founder of the Scala language said that Scala needs improvements in tooling to help drive it into the enterprise space. For those of you not familiar with this language it ranks with Haskell and Erlang as relatively low-profile, but powerful, languages that crunch through a mass of data in industrial [...]Some interesting news about parallel programming with C++ has just surfaced. We covered the move towards parallel programming with the announcement of new standards for C++0x, in a blog posted last week. However, Microsoft has trumped this with a recent announcement about a new technology to help developers build massively parallel programs. Dubbed C++ Accelerated [...]Intel’s most powerful game developer tool, Intel Graphics Performance Analyzers, now works with Intel Graphics Checker. This means two important things: Games that deliver graphic qualities that are the best they can be Games that are as fast as they can be You can find out more about these software tools, how to get the [...]Many of you will have heard of Herb Sutter. He’s a leading C++ expert and between 1997 and 2003 regularly created C++ programs posting them on the Usenet newsgroup. He then joined Microsoft and eventually became its lead software architect for C++/CLI and chair of the ISO’s C++ committee. Just recently he spoke about the [...]Yesterday, I posted part one of our two-part interview with Stephen Toub, Principal Architect on the Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft. In this second part, he tells us about Async and TPL Dataflow, the public reaction to them, and how easy language extensions can make it for developers to parallel program. Softtalkblog: Async and [...]Next week sees the MeeGo community come together in Birmingham (UK) to exchange tips and insights. The agenda is still being drafted but so far includes augmented reality, creating a MeeGo interface, and how you can sell MeeGo apps through the Intel AppUp Center. The event is called the Meego Experts Meetup, but don’t let [...]
Stephen Toub is Principal Architect on the Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft. His team develops runtimes, libraries, compilers, and tools that enable developers to more easily and better parallelise their software. I caught up with him by email for a chat about .NET, Async and The Task Parallel Library Dataflow (TPL Dataflow), and how [...]