A great online Flash game for programmers

I’m going to be taking a break on the blog for Christmas and will be back in the new year, when I plan to keep you updated once more on what’s going on in parallel programming. If you want to know when I’m back, you can follow me on Twitter, or subscribe to my RSS [...]

Concurrency snakes into Python with new futures library

A new blog post by Gaston Hillar at Dr Dobb’s Go Parallel has drawn my attention to the work going on in the Python programming community to make it easier to code concurrent applications using that language. Python’s philosophy is one of ‘batteries included’, which means the language is supplied with the extensive libraries required [...]

Prising open the door of your bank – legally

 Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Minister, whose name recently came to national prominence for a slip of the tongue by a Radio 4 presenter, is championing the rights of developers. He has made clear that the creative industries are central to the wellbeing of the UK economy. And that includes computer games development. This came [...]

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