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How does Javascript code become asynchronous when using callbacks?
I've been doing a lot of reading online trying to figure out how to write asynchronous JavaScript code. One of the techniques that has come up a lot in my research is to use callbacks. While I ...
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In an event-driven environment, how should a “cancel” function abort all further events?
In my iOS app, things are mostly driven by events.
The user presses a button
The app listens for an external device to be connected to the iOS device
Once the device is detected (is connected), an ...
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Is it possible to half-way synchronize javascript functions that include async calls?
I am wondering if there exists a way to half way synchronize javascript functions, where data is requested on the fly. I don't want to make it purely blocking (which I guess is impossible), I just ...
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async+await == sync?
Stumbled upon this post that talks about making async web requests.
Now simplicity aside, if in real world, all you do is make an async request and wait for it in the very next line, isn't that the ...
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Reporting and handling asynchronous process errors to a client
I have a product with two separate applications. The core of the product lives in the database (oracle) and runs according to a schedule. The other is a client application (currently ASP.NET MVC3) ...
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Transitioning to asynchronous programming model
our team is mantaining and developing a .NET web service written in C#. We have stress tested the web service's farm and we have evidence that the actual architecture doesn't scale well, as the number ...
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Learning Asynchronous programming
Asynchronous non-blocking event driven programming seems to be all the rage. I have a basic conceptual understanding of what this all means. However what I'm not sure is when and where my code can ...
