Apple open-sourced libdispatch

September 17, 2009

A quick note to point out that Apple recently open-sourced libdispatch, which is a library providing Grand Central Dispatch.

Here is Apple’s introduction to Blocks and Grand Central Dispatch, and the ars technica writeup on GCD.

Note that this isn’t the kernel or compiler support code. However, it will be interesting to see where it goes from here.


NxBRE Project Seems To Have Gone Dormant

September 1, 2009

Not sure why I didn’t spot this before, but it appears that the NxBRE project (a .NET rule engine) has recently gone dormant. Cheers to David for all the work he put in over the years.