I happened to be looking through some old emails, and I found my review of ASIO.
In my opinion the library should be accepted. This is the best example of an asynchronous library available in either C or C++. All other major program platforms Java (NIO), .NET, Python (twisted) have well accepted asynchronous networking support, and I think this is important for C++ as a high performance networking platform going forward.
I do have one concern, but the over all design of the…
In the last year I transitioned from lone cowboy developer to project manager. In this roll I find that I am called upon to make quite a few judgment calls both on the behavior and the architecture of the application.
I am really fortunate to work with a great team who I respect and are far better developers than me, so generally this goes pretty smoothly. But occasionally, either due to my own biases or experience, I find myself in disagreement with a recommendation of one of the team…
I think Twitter is neat. The concept of aggregating brief messages from multiple sources is simple but fun, useful, and technically interesting (well to me anyway). But I have had a couple strange malfunctions in the past couple days. The most disconcerting was that SMS notifications were turned on in the middle of the night unleashing a small torrent of messages on my phone, walking me up.
In a stroke of good luck it turned out to be a good thing because I needed to get up and check the status of some long running processes anyway. But it took me awhile to figure out how to disable the thing (the setting on the home page wasn’t working), and was on the verge of killing off my account. Anyways, I’m disconnecting for a while to go home to Jamestown then onto NYC. I’ll plug back into the Matrix in a couple weeks.
(via christopher baus.net)
