Books with author John Duffy

Johnny Freak Show is in a fix (well, several fixes really) and his friends aren’t helping. Try as he might, that teenage Holy Grail (i.e., the getting of the leg over)? Well, it just isn’t happening. Starting in school, and then over time escalating to the pub, his luck remains consistently dire. Beer helps initially of course, but in the end serves merely to deaden the pain of his perpetual disappointment. Will he prevail, ultimately? Or is he destined to live the life of a reluctant Eunuch? Accompany Johnny as he wallows through the personal minefield of ignominy that defines his very existence. Experience with him the horror of involuntary erectile 'situations' and ginormous exploding carbuncles. See how a dastardly linguistic affliction conspires to muddy his amorous waters at the eleventh hour. Observe how he arrives at the eventual conclusion, that Rock Star Demi Gods are, when all is said and done, not really all that they think they are.

“When you begin using multi-threading throughout an application, the importance of clean architecture and design is critical. . . . This places an emphasis on understanding not only the platform’s capabilities but also emerging best practices. Joe does a great job interspersing best practices alongside theory throughout his book.” – From the Foreword by Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation Author Joe Duffy has risen to the challenge of explaining how to write software that takes full advantage of concurrency and hardware parallelism. In Concurrent Programming on Windows, he explains how to design, implement, and maintain large-scale concurrent programs, primarily using C# and C++ for Windows. Duffy aims to give application, system, and library developers the tools and techniques needed to write efficient, safe code for multicore processors. This is important not only for the kinds of problems where concurrency is inherent and easily exploitable—such as server applications, compute-intensive image manipulation, financial analysis, simulations, and AI algorithms—but also for problems that can be speeded up using parallelism but require more effort—such as math libraries, sort routines, report generation, XML manipulation, and stream processing algorithms. Concurrent Programming on Windows has four major sections: The first introduces concurrency at a high level, followed by a section that focuses on the fundamental platform features, inner workings, and API details. Next, there is a section that describes common patterns, best practices, algorithms, and data structures that emerge while writing concurrent software. The final section covers many of the common system-wide architectural and process concerns of concurrent programming. This is the only book you’ll need in order to learn the best practices and common patterns for programming with concurrency on Windows and .NET.

Johnny Freak Show is in a fix (well, several fixes really) and his friends aren’t helping. Try as he might, that teenage Holy Grail (i.e., the getting of the leg over)? Well, it just isn’t happening. Starting in school, and then over time escalating to the pub, his luck remains consistently dire. Beer helps initially of course, but in the end serves merely to deaden the pain of his perpetual disappointment. Will he prevail, ultimately? Or is he destined to live the life of a reluctant Eunuch? Accompany Johnny as he wallows through the personal minefield of ignominy that defines his very existence. Experience with him the horror of involuntary erectile 'situations' and ginormous exploding carbuncles. See how a dastardly linguistic affliction conspires to muddy his amorous waters at the eleventh hour. Observe how he arrives at the eventual conclusion, that Rock Star Demi Gods are, when all is said and done, not really all that they think they are.