Thursday, February 05, 2004 - Posts

Thursday, February 05, 2004 5:56 PM

• What's wrong with System.Threading.ThreadPool?

  As I look at .NET code samples online, I've noticed that many multi-threaded snippets don't make use of the System.Threading.ThreadPool. I've used it with great success in my own projects, and I much prefer the ThreadPool to manually creating threads. Read More Rory | 27 Comments Filed Under: Enter the Nerd

• Americans will win because they're creative (just kidding)

  I've been reading this eight page Wired article on outsourcing. I'm about halfway through, and I just hit this increasingly common argument tossed out to the people who might be losing their jobs: As I meet [Indian] programmers and executives, I hear Read More posted Thursday, February 05, 2004 7:48 AM by Rory | 44 Comments Filed Under: General

Thursday, February 05, 2004 4:52 AM

• Java on Mars

  I just logged into IM, and Carl Franklin's name has the message, “NASA should have used .NET!” appended to it. Reminded me of this very witty little entry from Stuart. (It's kind of a Stuart night, methinks) Read More Rory | 4 Comments Filed Under: Little nothings

• Optimization (not always a good thing)

  There was a good thread in Chris Sells' OT list this morning. Began as a list of questions that might be asked during an interview (.NET job). People were chiming in with their opinions, and someone eventually mentioned asking an interviewee to flesh Read More posted Thursday, February 05, 2004 12:36 AM by Rory | 37 Comments Filed Under: Enter the Nerd