Hi all, I've made my Logger, that logs a string, a static class with a static so I can call it from my entire project without having to make an instance of it. quite nice, but I want to make it run in a seperate thread, since accessing the file costs time is that possible somehow and what's the best way to do it? Its a bit of a short ...
I'm using PHP, Oracle and crontab. Crontab is invoking a php script, which is going to synchronize some data between a local and remote database. First I thought about putting this all in one large, anonymous inline PL/SQL block and executing it in PHP. The problem is that without creating a table to audit the procedure it's really op...
Using new Project 2010 feature "Sync to Tasks List" get following message- Microsoft Project Unable to write information for task "XXX" to SharePoint. Ensure "XXX" contains valid data and try again. Any ideas on the root cause -what exactly could be wrong with the task data? ...
I have a Core Data app that will end up being an iPhone/iPad universal application. I would like to implement cloud syncing so that an iPhone and an iPad both running the app could share data. I'm planning to use the recently released Dropbox API. Does anyone have any thoughts on the best way to go about doing this? The Dropbox API allo...
I have read the following code of using CRITICAL_SECTION when working with multiple threads to grow a linked list. what would be the main() part which uses two threads to add to linked list? #include <windows.h> typedef struct _Node { struct _Node *next; int data; } Node; typedef struct _List { Node *head; CRITICAL_SEC...
Our application's DB (SQL Server 2005) has tables for application's metadata. Changes to these metadata tables (I mean insert/update/delete) can be done via GUI interface (not using SSMS). Most of the time developers change their own copy of database. The question is - how to "merge" these changes to metadata records into one? The probl...
Why is CompareAndSwap instruction considered expensive? I read in a book: "Memory barriers are expensive, about as expensive as an atomic compareAndSet() instruction." Thanks! ...
Hi all, I have five consumers and one producer. The five consumers each output different data, from the one producer, for ~10ms. During those 10ms the producer prepares the parameters for the next output. When the output parameters are set, I want to set a flag instructing the consumers to begin the next output. I only want the producer...
I am working on a regular iPhone app which pulls data from a server (XML, JSON, etc...), and I'm wondering what is the best way to implement synching data. Criteria are speed (less network data exchange), robustness (data recovery in case update fails), offline access and flexibility (adaptable when the structure of the database changes ...
There are two master databases and two read-only copies updated by standard transactional replication. It is needed to map some entity from both read-only databases, lets say that A databases contains orders and B databases contains lines. The problem is that replication to one database can lag behind replication of second database, a...
This is a question concerning what is the proper way to synchronize a shared object in java. One caveat is that the object that I want to share must be accessed from static methods. My question is, If I synchronize on a static field, does that lock the class the field belongs to similar to the way a synchronized static method would? Or, ...
The pthread_cond_timedwait function needs an absolute time in a time timespec structure. What time function I'm suppose to use to obtain the absolute time. I saw a lot of example on the web and I found almost all time function used. (ftime, clock, gettimeofday, clock_gettime (with all possible CLOCK_...). The pthread_cond_timedwait use...
I am trying to create an automatic process which will synchronize the databases of two servers. One site is live, and I need the testing environment to sync up with the live site every so often (I am thinking a cron job for that). How can I implement this? ...
How can I find from mutex handle in C# that a mutex is acquired? When mutex.WaitOne(timeout) timeouts, it returns false. However, how can I find that from the mutex handle? (Maybe using p/invoke.) UPDATE: public class InterProcessLock : IDisposable { readonly Mutex mutex; public bool IsAcquired { get; private set; } publ...
SO i am in the process of setting up a load balanced configuration for our web application with nginx. I would most probably go with sticky sessions to avoid session issues on the load balanced setup or maybe even go with a database session handler. However there are 2 concerns that i have right now: 1 : When deploying from SVN ( we us...
I have an ugly race condition with a WPF usercontrol, which is some kind of extended ComboBox: The UserControl mainly defines two bindable DependencyProperties, one is the selected item, another one is a list, from which the selected item can be chosen. Both are bindable, so the control may be initialized with or without a selected item ...
I'm looking for Java libraries/applications which are parallel and feature objects that can be queried in parallel. That is, there is/are objects in which multiple types of operations can be made from different threads and these will be synchronized. It would be helpful if someone could ideas of where I could find such applications as w...
JAVA NETBEANS // resultsTable, myModel JTable resultsTable; DefaultTableModel myModel; //javax.swing.table.DefaultTableModel myModel = (DefaultTableModel) resultsTable.getModel(); // event of clicking on item of table String value = (String) myModel.getValueAt(resultsTable.getSelectedRow(), columnIndex) I use JTable and DefaultTab...
Are there locks in Linux where the waiting queue is FIFO? This seems like such an obvious thing, and yet I just discovered that pthread mutexes aren't FIFO, and semaphores apparently aren't FIFO either (I'm working on kernel 2.4 (homework))... Does Linux have a lock with FIFO waiting queue, or is there an easy way to make one with exis...
There is something that bugs me with the Java memory model (if i even understand everything correctly). If there are two threads A and B, there are no guarantees that B will ever see a value written by A, unless both A and B synchronize on the same monitor. For any system architecture that guarantees cache coherency between threads, the...