A thread is the smallest unit of execution within a process. Multithreading is the ability to have multiple threads in memory at a given time and switch among them to handle multiple operations at the same time. Microsoft’s .Net Framework provides excellent support for working with threads.
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Was it Isaac Newton who said he saw further because he stood on the shoulders of giants? APIs are like pithy, epigrammatic quotes for those who write code. They let programmers see further and stand on the shoulders of giants.
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Dreamforce is the king of software conferences, with over 2700 sessions this year and probably 150,000 attendees. All the full-conference tickets are sold out already, so the only passes you can get are for the show floor and the first day.
For those of you who have full conference passes, the time for homework is now. You can't actually schedule any sessions, but by logging in to the Dreamforce site you can review and bookmark them so they're easy to spot when the scheduling system is turned on.
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Changing the way we work
Digital technologies are reshaping work at CIO 100 award-winning organizations, empowering employees to shift focus to higher-value activities.
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Inside a do-it-yourself culture
CIO Joseph Spagnoletti extols an organizational philosophy that accentuates agility and accountability, while doing away with the familiar trappings of corporate life.
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Magic Leap is finally here.
After seven years of rumors, speculation and hype (not to mention $2.3 billion in funding from major companies like Google), Magic Leap this week started selling a real product you can buy.
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The hardware bundle in detail The Magic Leap One Creator Edition is available on the Magic Leap website for $2,295. The headset weighs just under a pound and comes in two sizes based on head size and eye distance. Both sizes come with removable, variably sized and shaped nose and forehead rests. It gets about three hours of battery life.
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Going multicloud? This typically means using a mix of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to create a multicloud cocktail that should provide you with better value and more flexibility.
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After nearly a decade in development, Julia, an open source, dynamic language geared to numerical computing, reached its Version 1.0 production release status on August 8, 2018. The previous version was the 0.6 beta.
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What does it mean to software-define something, or to move into the digital age? These phrases may sound strange at first, but if you look around, companies all over the world are doing these things every day.
Take pizza, for example. You might not think you can software-define pizza, but it has already happened, and you probably didn’t even realize it. Domino’s Pizza has distilled the pizza ordering experience down from calling the pizza store, to ordering pizza online, to now only requiring one simple action: text Domino’s a pizza emoticon, and your favorite saved order is delivered to you. That pizza emoticon may look like a tasty morsel, but Domino’s has transformed it into a template that you can customize, edit, and use to repeatedly and reliably order your favorite pizza with minimal effort. That’s what it means to software-define something.
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Once hailed as a breakthrough in mobile development, Facebook’s React Native framework is stumbling, with users reassessing their commitment to the technology and Facebook looking to overhaul it.
React Native has been used at companies like Uber to Tesla, Instagram, and Facebook itself. Late in 2015, analyst firm IDC saw React Native as offering a new paradigm for hybrid development, freeing developers from the Webview component and delivering native performance. React Native opened the native device platform to web developers, said IDC. But IDC did add the caveat that the technology was still immature at the time.
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With the August 6 production debut of the Android 9 Pie mobile OS, Google has released an Android SDK with special capabilities for development with the Kotlin language.
The SDK has nullability annotations for frequently used APIs, preserving null-safety guarantees when Kotlin code is calling into annotated APIs in the SDK. To ensure that newly annotated APIs are compatible with existing code, an internal mechanism provided by the Kotlin compiler team marks APIs as recently annotated. These APIs result in warnings instead of errors from the Kotlin compiler. Developers need to use Kotlin 1.2.60 or later.
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