What’s New in Delphi XXXX

A great list of “What’s new” for Delphis from 3 to XE7 can be found on StackOverflow.

(just noticed and thought I’d better pass this on)

OmniThreadLibrary Documentation–Low-level Multithreading

A new chapter (59 pages) on low-level multithreading has been added to the Parallel Programming with OmniThreadLibrary book. The book now has 264 pages.

Only one large part is now missing – a chapter on various supporting data structures (TOmniValue, Environment hierarchy …) and units (OtlHooks). I will write it next, then I’ll close up with the Introduction to MultiThreading.

If you have already bought the book, you should have received an email notification with download link by now. In case it got lost, please go to http://leanpub.com, log in and go to your Dashboard where you’ll be able to download the book.

If you want to buy the book, just click here. You’ll be taken to the public page for the book where you’ll also be able to download the sample PDF, which has now two new sections – an introductory part on low-level OTL programming and a section on lock-free collections.

The OTL Book has 100 readers!

Thanks to everybody who bought the book! Your contribution to the OmniThreadLibrary project is much appreciated!

And not forget the Russian book owners. There are only 17 of them at the moment but their contribution is appreciated nonetheless. (And, again, thanks to Alex Egorov who is translating the book into Russian.)

OmniThreadLibrary Documentation: Blocking Collection

A chapter on blocking collection (IOmniBlockingCollection) is now available online.

OmniThreadLibrary Documentation: ForkJoin

A chapter on Parallel.ForkJoin is now available online.

The Book is Here!

I have finally pushed the Publish button and “The Book” is now available on LeanPub.

To get the current book status, click here or on the book cover image right to this post.

If you want to affect the order in which the book is written, participate in poll on the right (below the book cover image). I will complete the “High-level Multithreading” chapter regardless of your votes but then I’ll follow the majority.

OmniThreadLibrary Documentation: ForEach

A chapter on Parallel,ForEach is now available online.

OmniThreadLibrary Documentation: Pipeline

A chapter on Parallel.Pipeline is now available online.

OmniThreadLibrary Documentation: BackgroundWorker

A chapter on Parallel.BackgroundWorker is now available online.

OmniThreadLibrary Documentation: ParallelTask

A chapter on Parallel.ParallelTask is now available online.

OmniThreadLibrary Documentation: Join

A long chapter on Parallel.Join has been added to the wiki.

All book material is now also available in the Markdown format in the SVN.

I have started putting together “the book”. The plan is to release early – most probably when all high-level stuff is covered – and then to regularly publish updates. Updates will always be free for all customers. At the moment you can’t preorder the book but you can express your interest at the link above.

OmniThreadLibrary Documentation: Future

I have just finished a pretty long chapter on futures.

Any comments, corrections, ideas etc are welcome.

OmniThreadLibrary Documentation: Async

First small part of the forthcoming documentation is available in the wiki, Any comments, corrections, ideas etc are welcome.

Wiki Editing

Is there a Windows application that simplifies editing of Wiki-formatted documents? I would settle for a very basic one - all formatting can be displayed in wiki format on screen but I would like some helpful shortcuts and logic that would simplify multilevel list editing, basic formatting, cross-document linking etc.

Do you have any recommendation? I'm sick of using Notepad2 for these purposes.

In case there's no such tool available - is there a young programmer that needs a pet project? Put together a TSynEdit (to bring in highlighting and printing) and a toolbar/ribbon and you'll be half done...

OmniThreadLibrary Documentation–an Outline

That’s how it’s going to look. If you feel I have left something out, now is the time to raise your voice.