Asynchronous programming is simply allowing some portions of code to be executed on separate threads. It makes your applications perform better, be more responsive, and use the resources of the system they are running on to the fullest extent.
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Looking for a simpler way of using an asynchronous function without directly using its callback
As the title says "Looking for a simpler way of using an asynchronous function without directly using its callback.". I hate functions and re-writing callbacks by "intercepting" them and passing the ...
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Simplify double AJAX request for jQueryUI's autocomplete widget
I'm using jQueryUI's Autocomplete widget for a product search. The data is in a database, so as the souce I passed it an AJAX request. My problem is, that I need some data about the currently focused ...
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Asynchronously wait for a task to complete and do some async action while waiting
I have a long-running task. My goal is to create a method that will allow me to:
Asynchronously wait for this task to complete
While waiting on a task, do some async action once in a while. This
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AsyncTask which allows to handle exceptions on UI
The AsyncTask available in android, gives you the result from doInBackground on the UI thread so that you can update UI ...
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Functional Typescript/Javascript
The past month I've been trying to learn Javascript through Typescript and my adventures have led me through the subjects of asynchronous and functional programming along the way. In order to try and ...
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Buffering of fast changing datapoints or events
The following class implements a buffer which captures fast changing datapoints or frequently raised events and dispatches them in batches. It will asynchronously call a processing function for the ...
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Implementing a POC Async Web Crawler
I've created a small proof of concept web crawler to learn more about asynchrony in .NET.
Currently when run it crawls stack overflow with a fixed number of current requests (workers).
I was ...
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Concurrent Task Waiter 2
This is an iteration of my previous question: Concurrent Task Waiter
Summary from before:
I have some code designed to simplify managing multiple asynchronous
operations. The code creates ...
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Concurrent Task Waiter
I have some code designed to simplify managing multiple asynchronous operations. The code creates callback actions that, when executed by the asynchronous operation, track which asynchronous methods ...
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Move uploaded file
As I mentioned in Node.JS fs.rename can not move files in right way. And it should be solved with stream piping. Please verify this code and answer questions in comments:
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Clojure core.async web crawler
I'm currently a beginner with clojure and I thought I'd try building a web crawler with core.async.
What I have works, but I am looking for feedback on the following points:
How can I avoid using ...
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Clock mux for allowing glitch-free muxing of asynchronous clocks
This clock mux is meant to allow glitch-free muxing between asynchronous clocks clk_a and clk_b via a (also asynchronous to both ...
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Asynchronous Array.map
I put together an asynchronous map function for Swift's Array using Grand Central Dispatch. It's called with a transform ...
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Solving the Shortest Path problem (little bit of TSP, too)
Some background info:
I'm working at a shipping company and the company's web developer has been fired a week ago. My boss knew that I had some knowledge in web development, so until we get a new ...
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Calling many web services asynchronously
I need to process a bunch of completed orders (thousands). To make it faster, I'm using a SemaphoreSlim to schedule a number of orders to be processed in parallel. ...
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Shorten my asynchronous DB queries, using async.js module
I am using
Node.js
Express.js
node-mysql.js
async.js
I am making multiple asynchronous queries to my DB, but every query relies on the previous one's results, so I decided to use the ...
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Fetch details from server
I am using this code to fetch some details from server from my android app. How can I improve it?
Here I am also transferring some data from one activity to another.
This is how I have written my ...
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Validating asynchronous behavior
I have a large service application I designed; it's a solution made up of about 30 projects.
I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction regarding using the Task-based ...
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Read multiple files async
I want to read multiple files simultaneously and apply the same function on data.
This code works correctly, but can someone please suggest any better way of writing this?
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Blocking and async UDP communication with an IR camera
I'm writing a Java application to control a custom IR research camera that will be installed on an aircraft. The camera connects to the the computer using UDP sockets via a direct LAN cable. The ...
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Simple Async Google Maps initializer with AngularJS
Here is a simple reusable AngularJS factory I came up with to initialize Google Maps Asynchronously, which somehow does not seem ...
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Is it a good idea to have a public inner class as a runner for a service?
I have a service class that handles recipe management using a piquetteClient (piquette is a web app with a rest API that can run puppet scripts).
The thing is ...
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Is this SqlConnection / SqlCommand async wrapper both efficient and correct?
This is my first time writing async code, I intend to inject the interface IConnection into other classes in my project. Can you please tell me if the implementation class Connection, is the correct ...
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Running 2 sets of tasks at the same time
Currently, my team and I have 2 types of databases that are updated periodically, SQL Server and Access. Also, we run specialized reports based on those databases.
Basically, we have 4 tasks that ...
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Is this a sensible way to throttle duplicate requests in a HttpModule?
I'm writing a method to throttle duplicate requests taking place within multiple HttpModule instances within a web application.
Currently I have the following ...
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Async function with slow web reference(web service) slowing down webpage
Is there a way to make a threading/async post with a web reference not slow down the whole website just because the web reference takes a long time to return a response?
I have a send email function ...
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.NET WCF Activator for sync and async calls
I decided to re-write my code responsible for WCF calls, as all of my methods had try-catch-...
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Is this a good approach to loading JavaScript files asynchronously?
I want to load JS files asynchronously to speed up page loading, but also need to execute JS code only once the scripts finish loading (so I need a way to implement callbacks).
I based this off of ...
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Questions regarding the use of Requests Futures for accessing REST URLs
This is a much simplified version of the real code focusing just on the handling of Futures from Requests Futures.
I have a few questions:
I had to implement my own version of ...
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Oauth 2.0 handler functions for Tornado
With Tornado 3.2 they made some updates to auth module and have updated the code. Earlier I was using open id for Google login, since it will be deprecated in the future I am switching the code to ...
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Verifying the type of an AggregateException's inner exception in a unit test
I've got the following code inside an integration test.
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Async method with multiple tasks
I'm trying to make my ASP.net Web API methods asynchronous. This method is in the Business Logic layer of my N-tier. I'm waiting for the result from my 1st task and use it on the 2nd task, but I ...
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Simple Deferred / Promise pattern in JavaScript
I've wrote a very simple implementation of Deferred / Promise pattern (inspired by jQuery's $.deferred) for my tiny project (which does not use jQuery)
It can ...
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Generic HTTP using Android Asynctask
I have developed a generic HTTP functionality using Android Asynctask and Apache HTTP client. Please review the code and let me know if it is the right way of doing or there are other ways to achieve ...
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nodejs grunt plugin using async module
I'm looking for some code review of my usage of async. Mainly why this does not work without the done = this.async() method and why I don't have to invoke 'done()' ...
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Views Counter made in Python, Gevent and MongoDB
I've created a Views Counter in Python, Gevent and MongoDB (Flask is also included in the full stack as you can see from the context issue in the code).
My gut still tells me that it can be still ...
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Asynchronous Pattern
I have an n-tier solution which consist of DAL,BL and a ASP.net WebAPI project. I'm new with Asynchronous Pattern and I'm trying to add it to my Framework. Am I doing asynchronous pattern correctly? ...
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Minimal but complete AMD implementation
I've got a minimal implementation (under 2k minified) of the Asynchronous Module Definition API. So far it handles all of the required stuff (I think; it passes the relevant unit tests, anyway), and ...
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ThreadSafe IsoStorageManager
This is a continuation of the last thread.
I wanted to add a thread-safety and I was considering AwaitableCriticalSection and Task+Mutex. I ended up with mutex; it can be a bit slower but it would ...
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Async Log4net logging handler - High CPU usage on async call
I've got a LoggingMessageHandler that incoming requests on my WebApi application filter through.
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Cleaning up nested promises in Cloud function
I am writing the Cloud function for Parse whose purpose is to update my database with a provided array of data objects. The main problem are the nested promises, which doesn't look right. Any help ...
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How to simplify this promise-driven animation code?
Inspired by this question on StackOverflow I've attempted to code such animation, mostly to get some more practice with async, promises and Q.js. Here's what I got:
(Live demo)
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Promises and chained calls
I've realized JS callback hell and I started looking into Promises libraries.
After reading some articles I decided to start with BluebirdJS. I didn't realise how to properly use them yet, because ...
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Load JSON file into model using Javascript / jQuery (deferred, asynchronous)
As a beginner I am always determined to improve myself. I've got written the following Code using jQuery that is working fine. However, I am sure that there are cleaner ways for achieving the same.
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Echo server with CompletableFuture
I recently wrote a simple echo server in Java 7 using the NIO APIs so it was asynchronous and non-blocking. Then I decided, as a learning experience, to redo it with Java 8 hoping to use a more ...
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AngularFire Tic Tac Toe Game
I am building a Tic Tac Toe game with AngularJS and making it online playable with AngularFire. The Tic Tac Toe logic is all there so this question concerns Angularfire a little bit more. I want to ...
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Thread Safe Events while utilizing EAP
This is my code for a server using EAP (Sockets).
Is AsyncOperation.Post is the right way to raise thread safe events?
AsyncOperation.Post states:
Invokes a delegate on the thread or context ...
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Interface implementations: sync methods in terms of async methods
Say I have an interface and I want to expose both synchronous and asynchronous options for performing an action:
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Wait until all files are loaded asynchronously, then run code
I'm an experienced programmer but not too great at JavaScript so I'm looking to see if I'm doing this 'right'. I want to have several files loaded in (Ajax or really AJAJ) and, once loaded, run some ...
