3/26/2008

Programming for Parallel Processing or Multi-Cores

Filed under: General — russell @ 4:31 pm

I have been eager to do some programming that deals with parallel processing and today a friend of mine (thanks Al!) pointed me to Microsoft's efforts in this area. Anyway here it is (mostly so I don't lose it by the time I get to play around with it). They extensions to .Net 3.5.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/concurrency/default.aspx


3/9/2008

Icon sets

Filed under: General — russell @ 9:15 pm

Good icons can really make a world of difference for an application (web or otherwise). Finding good ones can really be tricky... as I posted some free image sites... heres some free icon sites

http://www.gosquared.com/liquidicity/archives/122
http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?RoyaltyFreeIcons
http://browse.deviantart.com/customization/icons/dock/?order=9&alltime=yes
http://yellowicon.com/downloads/
http://fasticon.com/freeware/?p=57

These are very cool and modern looking:
http://www.freeiconsdownload.com

This one also has a list:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/25/20-free-and-fresh-icon-sets/