http://www.singlepointoffailure.net Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:20:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.singlepointoffailure.net/2012/01/programming/map/ New year, new project, right? Well... that not totally true for me this year! Let's say that I've inherited a Big Ball of Yarn to play with. The goal is to "reuse" an existing project, remove unnecessary functionality (a.k.a. dead code), and plug-in some extra "algorithms", but just lot at ... http://www.singlepointoffailure.net/2012/01/work/big-ball-of-yarn/ http://www.singlepointoffailure.net/2011/12/tv/caution-highly-addictive/ http://www.singlepointoffailure.net/2011/12/family/white-christmas/ http://www.singlepointoffailure.net/2011/12/fun/mug-collection/ I had to implement a progress bar for a GUI application, and in order to keep the application "live" my focus during last couple of weeks shifted to multi-threaded concurrent programming. The solution was simple and it basically implied implementing a background thread to update the progress bar while filling ... http://www.singlepointoffailure.net/2011/12/programming/abyssround-2/ http://www.singlepointoffailure.net/2011/12/music/todays-soundtrack/ I've never had the chance (or in fact the need) to investigate the use of the volatile keyword in C/C++. Today I found some very interesting articles about the subject.  - Andrei Alexandrescu's article "volatile: The Multithreaded Programmer's Best Friend" at Dr. Doobs's. Explains that using volatile prevents compiler optimizations that might ... http://www.singlepointoffailure.net/2011/12/programming/just-had-a-nice-time-with-volatile/ credits here. http://www.singlepointoffailure.net/2011/12/cartoon/so-true-been-there/  "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." http://www.singlepointoffailure.net/2011/12/life/chinese-proverb/