Multicore

Multicore: The RogueWave Option It is truly intriguing when you delve into the whole multicore problem that you find different companies have taken such wildly different approaches to solving the problem and avoiding the pitfalls inherent in parallelism. RogueWave has decades of experience writing efficient code that serves the needs of their customers. Back when I was a Project Manager for shrink-wrapped software (COTS in the current lingo), we used their libraries to get a lot of work done that would have been much more painful without them. But time marched on and RogueWave's C++ libraries became less useful in the enterprise as the... posted @ Thursday, November 06, 2008 9:26 AM | Feedback (1)

What's in a name? Boy I have to say, every time I wipe the egg off my face a new batch gets smeared on there. In this recent blog post I misused the term "Panacea". It was late, I was cleaning things up, and I was thinking plethora and wrote Panacea. Thing is, I had recently turned on "Search Engine Friendly URLs", which generates the URL a blog post resides at from the title, so by the time I noticed it, changing the title would have broken a bunch of links. And links just keep getting added. So, what do you think the blog... posted @ Tuesday, October 21, 2008 10:21 AM | Feedback (0)