I spent the day on Seesmic yesterday and had a 90-post conversation involving several of the members. I’ll say first of all that Seesmic has made TONS of improvements since Andrew Lipson gave me an ...

To understand and appreciate the distinction between asynchronous programming without multiple threads and asynchronous programming that depends on additional threads, consider two examples. First, ...

Python is one of many languges that support some way to write asynchronous programs — programs that switch freely among multiple tasks, all running at once, so that no one task holds up the progress ...

You should give your apps UIs that users enjoy. Unhappy users make for unhappy programmers—and sometimes out-of-work programmers. You need to make your UIs attractive, easy to use, and responsive.

This article introduces the TAP and the associated .NET language changes that streamline asynchronous programming and extend the multithreading enhancements in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4. With ...