HD DVD / Randomness...Peter Torr's blog on HD DVD, JScript, the Pet Shop Boys, and anything else he feels like blogging.Maintaining Callback Semantics- October 24, 2007 One of the key programming concepts in HDi is the use of asynchronous processing with callback functions. The HDi platform exposed to title authors is not multi-threaded (which helps reduce the complexity of writing applications), but many of the functions of the player are asynchronous in nature. For example, all the IO in HDi (both local and network) is asynchronous so that the on-screen experience isn't degraded while the script waits for a long IO call to complete. Instead, the script asks..http://blogs.msdn.com/ptorr/archive/2007/10/24/maintaining-callback-semantics.aspx Sliced bread aint got nuthin on this!- October 2, 2007 Forget being the best thing since sliced bread this is the best thing ever. Well maybe not quite that good, but it's still darn cool! Finally FINALLY! you can get decent IntelliSense for JScript inside Visual Studio! Holy hotcakes, Batman! This is so awesome you have to download Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 right now and try it out. Back when I was on the script team, we couldn't get any features into Visual Studio (much to the chagrin of our customers) because all the hype was around...http://blogs.msdn.com/ptorr/archive/2007/10/02/sliced-bread-ain-t-got-nuthin-on-this.aspx |