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Upcoming Courses on Coursera
Coursera is offering free online courses on various topics such as Network, Information, HealthCare, Computer Science, Mathematics etc. Courses are grouped under these categories and they cover a wide range of topics. I recently completed a five week course called “Design and Analysis Of Algorithms” by Tim Roughgarden. Course material is good, video lectures are short, clear and downloadable. Programming exercise, Q&A, discussion forums etc are few other things that make these courses really interesting.
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Understanding Thread Local Storage(TLS) in TPL
.Net 4.0 simplified writing parallel code by introducing the parallel variant of For/ForEach loop constructs. Most often the code that we write using Parallel.For/ForEach looks something like this :