2011 links no. 3

Interview With Sacha Barber in The Code Project. The ABA problem occurs during synchronization, when a location is read twice, has the same value for both reads, and “value is the same” is used to indicate “nothing has changed”. However, another thread can execute between the two reads and change the value, do other work, …

.NET Framework 2.0 is not installed on Windows 8 Developer Preview by default

.NET Framework 2.0 is not installed on Windows 8 Developer Preview by default. To install it, go to Control Panel – Programs – Turn Windows features on or off – Check ‘Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.1’ – OK. Note, that .NET Framework 2.0 is included into version 3.5. Below are some screenshots from the installation process.

Urih.com statistics – you never know what will be most used feature

22 weeks (or 5 months and 5 days) after urih.com launch, here we have an interesting stats. Clearly, the most used feature on the urih.com is SilverBench – online CPU benchmark tool. The opposite – the feature that no one have used is: Feedback form, that is located on all pages. To be exact, the …