Bruce Wallace

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Bruce Wallace is principal consultant of PolyGlot, Inc. Since 1980, he has provided consulting and custom computer software development services around the world. Projects have been completed in Sydney Australia, Perth West Australia, "Silicon Valley" California, "Route 128" Massachusetts, Austin Texas, and currently in Atlanta Georgia covering the full spectrum of roles from manual QA tester through CTO.

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Implementing Mutual Exclusion for AJAX
Publish Date: Apr. 5, 2006AJAX programmers who come from the Java world can, or at least should, be concerned with JavaScript's non-support for safely managing data structures in a concurrent fashion. If one thread is changing the DOM while another is reading it, problems are likely. Java developers can attack this with tools from the synchronized keyword and the old Object wait()/release() to the modern java.util.concurrent package introduced in J2SE 5.0. Bruce Wallace addresses the problem by introducing protection for critical blocks of JavaScript code. Design Markers
Publish Date: Mar. 26, 2003Source code is the canonical representation of a software project, but today's popular languages cannot express all of the design decisions behind a project. Explicit Programming seeks to make that easier, at least in the Java world. Bruce Wallace explains Design Markers, a similar concept that requires no special tools and offers compelling benefits.

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