Many of my friends and acquaintances read SF, but there are a lot of sub-genres and I’ve noticed recently that many people either don’t know of “New Space Opera” or have just discovered it and want help finding more. Since I read..
Topics: Books, SF

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I’d like to announce the first release of Gruple, a tuplespace implementation for Groovy (and Java, of course.) Release 1.0 is an *in-process* space only, meaning that it can be used to co-ordinate and synchronize threads, but not separate...
Topics: concurrency, Groovy, Java, Programming

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I realized late that the only way to contact me is by my now thoroughly expired iName (what was I thinking?!) The About page has been fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Topics: asides

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Actors are a popular way to write concurrent & distributed programs. Immutable messages are passed between actors which do the required processing, avoiding the difficulties inherent in sharing data among threads/processes.Tuplespaces (best...
Topics: actors, concurrency, Distributed Computing, linkedin, Programming

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Recently the growing concern with effective use of multicore processors and the subsequent popularity of the actor model came together with my desire to do a project in Groovy. Adding to the mix, I had an in-JVM tuplespace library in Java I’d never.
Topics: actors, concurrency, Distributed Computing, Groovy, Programming

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