Sat.Jun 11, 2011 - Fri.Jun 17, 2011

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AFDS Keynote Live Stream

Sutter's Mill

Just a reminder for those interested in using C++ to harness GPUs for fast code: My keynote at AMD Fusion Developer’s Conference will be webcast live. I’ll post another link when the recorded talk is available for on-demand viewing. The talk starts at 8:30am U.S. Pacific time tomorrow (Wed June 15). Today Jem Davies of ARM also gave a keynote.

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Book Review: Responsive Web Design

Tim Kadlec

Ethan Marcotte’s Responsive Web Design is an example of what can happen when an incredibly intelligent person is allowed to write in their own voice about a technique that they not only firmly believe in–but that they are using every day. It’s a compact book but Ethan manages to fill it full of plenty of information and he does so in a conversational, often humorous tone that will make you laugh at one sentence and then force you to thoughtfully ponder the implications of the next.

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C++ AMP keynote is online

Sutter's Mill

Yesterday I had the privilege of talking about some of the work we’ve been doing to support massive parallelism on GPUs in the next version of Visual C++. The video of my talk announcing C++ AMP is now available on Channel 9. (Update: Here’s an alternate link ; it seems to be posted twice.). The first 20 minutes has nothing to do with C++ in particular or any platform in particular, but tries to make the case that the right way to view the “trends” of multicore computing,

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