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Introduction When you work on slides for public talks it may happen that you would like to have two similar talks sharing some slides. For instance, one of my talks explains internals of async in C# so I have plenty slides with decompiled code, documentation etc. But my other talk, covering cons of async, has … Continue reading PowerPoint as a code — Reusing slides in multiple presentations
This is the tenth part of the Async Wandering series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Why creating Form from WinForms in unit tests breaks async? In Part 8 I mentioned that async could be implemented as fibers and this is the goal of … Continue reading Async Wandering Part 10 — Project Loom in .NET – awaiting with fibers
This is the fifty seventh part of the ILP series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Boolean algebra Today we are going to solve RNR_01_04 – Wpłaty from SPOJ. The history is as follows. We want to get some money for charity. We go … Continue reading ILP Part 57 – SPOJ Wpłaty
You probably heard that side effects in programming can be harmful. This post is not about imperative versus declarative approach, though. This is about side effects you may create without paying attention to little details. Just few examples. Running process and blinking Let’s take this code in C# on Windows (it can be reproduced in … Continue reading Avoid side effects outside of your application
This is the ninth part of the Async Wandering series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Why creating Form from WinForms in unit tests breaks async? In previous part I mentioned multiple ways to await a task with timeout. Let’s see them. Sketch Let’s … Continue reading Async Wandering Part 9 — awaiting with timeout