As we continue to explore the fundamental building blocks of multithreaded programming, today we encounter the Condition Variable, and what it has to do with my local delicatessen.
Month: September 2013
Episode #137: Mutex
In this episode we introduce the concept of a "critical section", and learn about one of the fundamental primitives that makes multithreaded programming possible.
Episode #136: Dead Thread
Concurrent programming is hard, and one of the things that makes it so hard is that a thread can unexpectedly die without giving the programmer any indication. In this episode …
Episode #135: Rake Multitask
In this, the final (for now) episode of the Rake miniseries, we take a look at how to speed up Rake runs by taking advantage of multiple cores.
Episode #134: Rake Clean
My children know they are supposed to clean their place at the table after dinner. Sometimes software builds need to be cleaned up too, and today we'll learn about an …
Episode #133: Rake File Operations
Rake has a lot of tricks up its sleeve. In this episode we'll look at some of the helpers it provides for performing various common operations on files.
Episode #132: Rake Pathmap
Today's dish is a real delicacy... we're going to dig into one of Rake's most powerful but little-known capabilities and see how we can easily transform collections of path names …
Episode #131: Rake Rules
In this episode we learn how to write advanced Rake rules which programatically determine the appropriate prerequisites for a given target file.
Episode #130: Rake File lists
As we continue our series on Rake, today we look at the Rake::FileList and how it can help us find the files we need and ignore the ones we don't.