Scala tutorial for C# Developers

You probably heard about the Scala programming language. If you spend most of your time with Visual Studio but you want to lean the popular JVM language, you can read my three articles published on Dr. Dobb's. In fact, C# 6.0 will include some features that are popular in the Scala programming language. Scala for C# Developers: A Tutorial Scala for C# Developers: Useful Features Scala for C# Developers: The Magic

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Moblin v2.0 is Multicore Ready

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Moblin v2.0 for Intel Atom Processor based netbooks is already available. Developers with Linux experience will find it easy to target this new attractive platform. However, many developers have many questions related to the multicore support offered this new operating system.
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Rich Services Cloud Applications Require Parallel Programming Skills

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The interest on Rich Services Cloud Applications is growing fast. Users want responsive and immersive interactions from any locations. Nowadays, you cannot think about a business application without mobility in mind. However, you cannot avoid creating a rich user experience (UX) in mobile devices whilst accessing services on the cloud. If you want to offer a really nice experience, you'll have to use parallel programming skills everywhere.
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Downsizing Multicore Programming Skills to Take Advantage of Intel Atom

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There is no doubt that Intel Atom is an attractive microprocessor. Netbooks, embedded systems, consumer electronic devices, and MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices) are using its different flavors. But can multicore programming skills be useful with these single-core CPUs?
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Process Monitor v2.7: A New Release to Watch Processes and Threads in Windows

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Process Monitor is a very complete advanced monitoring tool that shows and logs real-time activity for the file system, the Registry, the running processes and their threads in Windows. Yesterday, the Windows Sysinternals team made the new version v2.7 of Process Monitor available for download.
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All CPU Meter: A Simple Windows Gadget to Monitor Cores

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All CPU Meter is a very simple sidebar gadget available for Windows Vista and Windows 7. It allows developers and users to check the microprocessor's usage and it shows an independent graph for each available logical core (hardware thread).
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TMonitor: Understanding What Happens With Each Hardware Thread

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TMonitor, a new tool developed by the CPUID team, offers the possibility to understand what's going on with each hardware thread (logical core) on some modern multicore microprocessors.
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Web Workers: A Draft Recommendation to Allow Parallelism in Scripts

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Most modern Web pages run scripts. So far, there are many limitations to allow these scripts to take advantage of multicore microprocessors. However, Web Workers is a draft specification that defines an API to allow Web application authors to spawn background workers running scripts in parallel.
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