Top-down introduction to Asynchronous Programming in C# — Top-down introduction to Asynchronous Programming in C# In this blog post I’ll give a top-down introduction of asynchronous programming in C#. This post may be useful for anyone new to C# and for students who have learnt about threads and concurrency. …

Using open data to compare daily sky colors all year long in the major tech-hubs of the West: San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, New York… — Motivation for the article I’ve recently moved to Seattle, WA. Before moving here I had read that the city is known for its gray skies. It’s also famous for having overcast clouds more than 200 days per year. In the few weeks that I’ve been here I’m reminded of this fact almost daily. I…

Some context — Some context I’ve had a lot of time to kill in the last few weeks so I recently completed a series of 3 classes, a specialization, on Coursera — Parallel, Concurrent, and Distributed Programming in Java Specialization. The first two classes, Parallel Programming in Java and Concurrent Programming in Java were good…