Dr Dobbs Video Audio Center

RailsConf 2006: The Future Looks Really Good On day two of RailsConf, Mike Riley is looking at Ruby-on-Rails case studies and digging deep into Rails code. (MP3, 5:29 mins.)
RailsConf 2006: Out of the Blocks Mike Riley reports what's happening with Ruby and Ruby-on-Rails from the conference floor of the RailsConf 2006 conference in Chicago. (MP3, 4:44 mins.)
ClickOnce Boundaries Brian Noyes on installing application prerequisites with ClickOnce, the API, and the limitations of customizing ClickOnce that can force a look into the Updater Application Block from the MS Patterns and Practices group. (MP3, 17:34 mins.)
MS Live Labs Grants Awarded and Tiny BioSensors Created at Cornell Microsoft Live Labs has announced 12 grant recipients for the Accelerating Search in Academic Research campaign; see research.microsoft.com/ur. Engineers at Cornell university have developed tiny sensors to monitor a patient's blood flow, blood pressure, and temperature; see www.cnf.cornell.edu. (MP3, 2:55 mins.)

Multithreaded Programming Quickstart

May 16, 2006
Multithreaded Programming Quickstart
This NetSeminar explains the benefits of adding parallelism to your application. You will get a high-level understanding of the methods for locating areas within an application to add parallelism. The presentation also highlights some of the common issues which can cause incorrect behavior or poor performance in a threaded application. It concludes with suggestions for ways to incrementally add concurrency without having to completely re-implement your application.
Multithreaded Programming Quickstart