.NET Async Await

* Performance consideration: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh456402.aspx
* Comparison with old patterns: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj152938.aspx

,NET timers

Comparisons: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc164015.aspx

Note that System.Timers.Timer and System.Threading.Timer by default call your timer event handler on a worker thread obtained from the common language runtime (CLR) thread pool.

	System.Windows.Forms	System.Timers	System.Threading
Timer event runs on what thread?	UI thread	UI or worker thread	Worker thread
Instances are thread safe?	No	Yes	No
Familiar/intuitive object model?	Yes	Yes	No
Requires Windows Forms?	Yes	No	No
Metronome-quality beat?	No	Yes*	Yes*
Timer event supports state object?	No	No	Yes
Initial timer event can be scheduled?	No	No	Yes
Class supports inheritance?	Yes	Yes	No
* Depending on the availability of system resources (for example, worker threads)

WebGL

Model-View-Projection Matrices

• Model maps object coordinate to world coordinate
• View maps world coordinate to camera coordinate
• Projection maps camera coordinate to screen coordinate

Single Sign-On

How to configure IIS7 and IE for Single Sign-On using Windows Authentication: http://support.etouch.net/cm/wiki/?id=78151

WebSocket

• Node.js and WebSocket
• http://socket.io
• http://martinsikora.com/nodejs-and-websocket-simple-chat-tutorial
• http://www.nodebeginner.org/
• WebApp framework for node js http://expressjs.com/
• Is binary transferable using websocket?
• Yes, see  http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/websockets/basics/
• What happen if a connection is disrupted ?
• Need to handle manually, see  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3780511/reconnection-of-client-when-server-reboots-in-websocket
• Socket.IO seems to have this supported
• How can I simulate disconnected connection for unit test
• Difficult but doable, see  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7268419/how-can-i-kill-a-websocket-connection?rq=1
• How about Proxy ?
• Good question ...

NVIDIA GPU GTC 2012 Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE17ED9CB13A00DFD

Multithreading in C#

http://www.albahari.com/threading/

Amazon, Apple, Hacking article

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/all/

XCOPY help

http://www.computerhope.com/xcopyhlp.htm

Cookies

How to detect cookie in Javascript
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8112634/jquery-detecting-cookies-enabled

Delete cookie for a specific site by clicking bookmark
http://labnol.blogspot.jp/2006/12/how-to-delete-browser-cookies-of-any.html

Cross-domain communication, 3rd party cookie problems:
- http://vimeo.com/24705559, options:
  - PostMessage
  - JSONP
  - CORS Cross Origin Resource Sharing
  - Document.domain Hacks
  - Window.name Hacks
  - IFrame Hacks

Creating P3P compact policy:
 - http://blog.sweetxml.org/2007/10/minimal-p3p-compact-policy-suggestion.html
 - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5774014/iframe-cant-read-nor-set-cookies
 - http://viralpatel.net/blogs/how-to-set-third-party-cookies-with-iframe/