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February 2012
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Blaise Pascal Magazine: “Multithreading” series
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– In the last week I’ve republished all the articles about multithreading I’ve written for the Blaise Pascal Magazine. To simplify linking from other sites, I’m listing them all in this post. Introduction to Multithreading Four Ways to Create a Thread Synchronisation in Multithreaded ...
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Blaise Pascal Magazine Rerun #9: High Level Multithreading
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– This article was originally written for the Blaise Pascal Magazine and was published in Issue #18. Relevant Delphi code is available at http://17slon.com/blogs/gabr/BPM/HighLevel.zip. Read more »--- Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license
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Blaise Pascal Magazine Rerun #8: Debugging Multithreaded Applications
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– This article was originally written for the Blaise Pascal Magazine and was published in Issue #14. Read more »--- Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license
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OmniThreadLibrary Documentation: Future
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– I have just finished a pretty long chapter on futures. Any comments, corrections, ideas etc are welcome. --- Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license
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8 Simple Rules for Modifying Production Database
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– Make sure you have a backup! And by that I mean a fresh backup, made just now, not an idea that there may exist a person who knows where a backup is stored! Make sure you can restore from the backup! And by that I mean that you have tested the restore procedure. On the backup that you ...
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Blaise Pascal Magazine Rerun #7: Intraprocess Communication
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– This article was originally written for the Blaise Pascal Magazine and was published in Issue #12. Relevant Delphi code is available at http://17slon.com/blogs/gabr/BPM/Communication.zip. Read more »--- Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license
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Blaise Pascal Magazine Rerun #6: Synchronisation in Multithreaded Environment
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– This article was originally written for the Blaise Pascal Magazine and was published in Issue #11. Relevant Delphi code is available at http://17slon.com/blogs/gabr/BPM/Synchronisation.zip. Welcome back to the third installment of out short introduction to multithreading. You already know what ...
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Blaise Pascal Magazine Rerun #5: Four Ways to Create a Thread
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– This article was originally written for the Blaise Pascal Magazine and was published in Issue #10. Relevant Delphi code is available at http://17slon.com/blogs/gabr/BPM/FourWaysToCreateAThread.zip. Read more »--- Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license
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Blaise Pascal Magazine Rerun #4: Introduction to Multithreading
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– This article was originally written for the Blaise Pascal Magazine and was published in Issue #9. Read more »--- Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license
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Accelerometer Demo
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– My accelerometer blog ended rather abruptly, without a demo program so today I’m returning to the topic. To test the accelerometer control I wrote a very simple program in which you can move a rectangle around the screen by tilting your iOS device. You can test it here. This program builds heavily ...
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OmniThreadLibrary Documentation: Async
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– First small part of the forthcoming documentation is available in the wiki, Any comments, corrections, ideas etc are welcome. --- Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license
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Detecting Device Movement
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– For my next quest I decided to find out how accelerometer works in web applications. IOW, I wanted to control an object on my HTML page just by moving my iPad around. I limited my quest to iOS because that’s my favorite toy. don’t know yet how to do it in Android – this StackOverflow post ...
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Wiki Editing
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– Is there a Windows application that simplifies editing of Wiki-formatted documents? I would settle for a very basic one - all formatting can be displayed in wiki format on screen but I would like some helpful shortcuts and logic that would simplify multilevel list editing, basic formatting, cross- ...
January 2012
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OmniThreadLibrary Documentation–an Outline
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– That’s how it’s going to look. If you feel I have left something out, now is the time to raise your voice. Introduction Introduction to Multithreading Introduction to OmniThreadLibrary Tasks vs. Threads Locking (vs.) Messaging TOmniValue High-level ...
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A Sign of Maturity
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– No IDE is mature until it has a TSmiley component. --Anonymous This week I got a sudden urge to write TSmiley component for Smart Mobile Studio IDE. After all, what is a development environment without a smiley? My TSmiley is not an enterprise-y ...
