A lot of things have happened since Katy and I tagged the top of our most recent 4000 footer. Most notably, we got married! After years of dating, a long engagement, and much planning, we finally tied the knot on June 12, 2010. It was a perfect ceremony, a whirlwind reception, and an incredible day. [...]
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Future Interrupted
I always thought of Java’s Future interface as a fairly elegant and effective way of dealing with asynchronous tasks. It’s lightweight, gives you a mechanism to check if a task is finished, allows you to block until the task completes and retrieve its result, and also provides a hook to attempt to cancel the task [...]
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