Async, Parallelism and Learning with Jon Skeet at NDC
While at the Norwegian Developers Conference, Carl and Richard chatted with Jon Skeet about Async and Parallelism. The conversation starts out with a BKaF on parallel exception handling and a reader comment about F# and parallelism. Jon chimes in on both these subjects, talking about all the challenges around error handling, parallel or otherwise, and he knows (and doesn't know) about F#. Throughout the conversation there are short discussions on his effort to teach his sons programming as well. Great insights from Mr. Skeet!
Guests:
Jon Skeet
Jon Skeet is a software engineer for Google in London, who plays with Jon Skeet is a software engineer for Google in London, who plays with C# (somewhat obsessively) in his free time. He loves writing and talking about C#, including his popular book C# in Depth. Writing less formally, Jon spends a lot of time on Stack Overflow… where ‘a lot’ is an understatement. Give him a puzzle about how C# behaves which gets him reaching for the language specification, and Jon is a happy bunny. Jon lives in Reading with his wife and three children.
Links:
- TPL Exceptions http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/152765/Task-Parallel-Library-1-of-n
- Noda-Time https://code.google.com/p/noda-time/
- Vexing Exceptions http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2008/09/10/vexing-exceptions.aspx
- LUA http://www.lua.org/