PPL Task While playing with the concurrency features in C++11, I noticed that there wasn’t any support for continuations. As a learning exercise I decided to develop something similar to tasks in The Parallel Patterns Library (PPL), where a task can run asynchronously and execute a continuation upon completion using the then member … Continue reading
I have come across a few good examples of the Producer-Consumer pattern, however they tend to use contrived examples that don’t correlate well to a real world example. I realise that the examples are generally contrived for the sake of brevity and in order to keep them clear and concise. I admit that the … Continue reading
I recently worked on a tool to wrap the creation of Autodesk Maya Constraints. I wanted to be able to validate the functionality of the tool without testing the GUI. Visual Studio (currently VS2013) is my IDE of choice and I really like the Test Explorer that is provided in VS … Continue reading