Monthly Archives: August 2010

The releng-0.5 branch… is open

Posted on 2010-08-18 by Owen Shepherd

EForge is a project of mine – a project to build a better project management system. The aim is quite simple: Combine the best features of systems like Trac, RedMine and SourceForge, with the best features of systems like GitHub … Continue reading →

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The magical Futex

Posted on 2010-08-11 by Owen Shepherd

Its rare that computing creates something as elegant as the Futex: A simple and highly elegant system on top of which all the important synchronization primitives can be built, which has minimal overhead, and which is screamingly fast. Its even … Continue reading →

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