Episode 280 - PowerScripting Podcast - Glenn Block and Oisin Grehan on Asynchronous Programming

Glenn Block and Oisin Grehan
 

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Interview
Guest - Glenn Block and Oisin Grehan
Links

Glenn Block @gblock
Oisin Grehan @oising
Intro to async/await and asynchronous programming in .NET 4.5
Oisin’s psasync project on github

Chatroom Highlights:
 http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hosed
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXC_9KazCvQ
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXC_9KazCvQ
 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh191443.aspx
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar
 https://connect.microsoft.com/PowerShell/feedback/details/838221/powershell-must-support-calling-async-apis
 https://connect.microsoft.com/PowerShell/feedback/details/838221/powershell-must-support-calling-async-apis
 http://www.manning.com/jones6/
sweet! http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html
 https://github.com/oising/psasync/blob/master/AsyncCallJobSource/Commands/RegisterAsyncCallEventCommand.cs
Shattered Planet, on ios and android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kitfox.shatteredplanet
 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shattered-planet-rpg/id698929655?mt=8
 https://twitter.com/gblock
 https://twitter.com/oising
 https://github.com/oising/psasync
 http://www.nivot.org/
 https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-csharp-pcl
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettabyte
## But Oisin, we still can't deal with async callbacks like filters, we have to receive everything and filter them afterward.
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Glenn Block - a really large iPad (I mean, large storage capacity)