Archive for May, 2011
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Threads and a Bicycle-built-for-two
Building a bicycle-built-for-two isn’t a great metaphor for designing multi-threaded software, but I needed catchy title, so there you have it. Few companies and few developers like to talk about the warts in their software, but let’s face it — for decades, SlickEdit has been a single threaded application, nothing but a bicycle-built-for-one. That single [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Code Editors,Programming by Dennis B
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
Things I Learned During the 64-bit Port – Volume 1
I haven’t written a ton of posts for the SlickEdit blog. I tend to save it for instances where I find something humorous that I can cross-reference. I actually do not have a lot of humor to offer this time, but having worked through our 64-bit port in the last few months I do have [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Programming,SlickEdit Products by Dan H
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
Hey! Where are all the features?
SlickEdit 2011 is an unusual release. Typically, a release contains a good number of new features that enhance your ability to edit source code. This year, the words “updated” and “enhancements” play more prominently in the list: 64-bit Versions for Linux and Windows Multithreading the Context Tagging Engine and Auto-Reload Support for Ruby Debugging Support [...]
