Posts Tagged ‘asynchronous’

This will be a short post on a little roadblock that was overcome. To-Do: An internal Windows Phone application that we are building for Sogeti needed to pull down a chunk of data from a server for caching & displaying on the phone. Meh .. So, what’s the Challenge? Well, two little issues: The content [...]

I guest-blogged for SilverlightShow recently: Real-time communication. Many software applications on variety of platforms & form factors have a genuine need for it. But persistent networks, real-time connectivity & asynchrony continue to challenge us developers in building such applications. Is there a silver lining? Could we have near-real-time communication in our mobile apps? Imagine the [...]

FYI – I am only scratching the surface on this topic here. So, things I say in this post may be questionable .. just trying to understand asynchrony better by writing stuff down & gathering some feedback. You’ve been warned Ever had to do asynchronous programming? Yeah, that thing which is the right thing to [...]