Link shared: https://mailinabox.email/ It's taken ten days since the ACCU conference, but I finally cleared the nearly 10,000 emails which had backlogged since Dec 1st 2015. Next step is to replace my email server, the current one is running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS installed in May 2012 and considering it is an entirely hand rolled installation, it has served me very well during the last four years, though it has begun to fall over increasingly in the last six months or so (I have hourly cron scripts which resurrect it automatically - most of the time).
Just slept continuously for twelve hours, as did Clara too actually! Obviously was more tired after the ACCU conference than I realised. Last night took Clara for a walk in the evening sunshine, but she wanted to be carried earlier than usual and began to fall asleep on my shoulder on the way home, so I took her straight up to bed and we both fell asleep before 8pm. We both just woke up there just now, she gasping "water" so I handed her a glass of water and she downed it - one failing of sleeping next to me I suppose, it must have been quite warm.
Link shared: http://ACCU.org +ACCU.org #ACCUConf Just witnessed John Lakos and the presenter Charles Tolman tango dancing in a talk on software design! You think you've seen it all at tech conferences …
I really didn't expect the talk on proposed Boost.AFIO to be as popular as it was at the ACCU conference: they put me into the "popular room" out of the five concurrent talk strands where they videotape and publish the talks pretty much immediately, so here is my workshop yesterday online already. I was a bit flustered at the beginning, I had less than five minutes to set up and the live demo I was supposed to demonstrate failed to compile due to me fixing a regression in Outcome in the bar the night before which broke AFIO.
I really didn't expect the talk on proposed Boost.AFIO to be as popular as it was at the ACCU conference: they put me into the "popular room" out of the five concurrent talk strands where they videotape and publish the talks pretty much immediately, so here is my workshop yesterday online already. I was a bit flustered at the beginning, I had less than five minutes to set up and the live demo I was supposed to demonstrate failed to compile due to me fixing a regression in Outcome in the bar the night before which broke AFIO.
Link shared: http://ACCU.org Unusual keynote at the ACCU conference this morning: it's on the psychology of software developers by an academic researcher. In recent years I already know much if not most of the content at these conferences, but this talk is new and useful. For example the academic presenting the empirical findings has found very little pair programming in top teams, but lots of pair debugging. And she's very right on that, and it hasn't occurred to me before.
Link shared: https://github.com/ned14/boost.afio/tree/master/doc/presentations Slides for my ACCU talk on proposed Boost.AFIO are now online at https://github.com/ned14/boost.afio/tree/master/doc/presentations
The final slide in my proposed Boost.AFIO v2 talk at the ACCU conference on Thursday showing the colour coded empirical benchmarks for three methods of mutual exclusion on the file system across the file systems NTFS, ReFS, FAT32 and exFAT. The top three are for contended locks, the bottom three for uncontended locks.
