ServerSide

I dont usually post activist stuff on the blog, but I have to make an exception in this case. A year ago, I caught a late night showing of Jeff Barrie's Killowatt Ours, a 1 hour long film about the true impact of energy production on our environment, our health, and the extent to which we can help meet our growing energy demands by simply ...

If you are developing code that uses distributed synchronization or messaging, you sometimes might need to use files as a locking mechanism.  This can be useful because files are persistent (beyond thread, process, or even power session lifetime), and access to them is synchronized between multiple processes if you select the proper file ...