Before getting started, this is a down to earth introduction to asynchronous programming and not a mathematical analysis. It is possible to make the whole subject seem so complicated that it is a ...

Asynchronous programming allows you to write programs that don’t block on each statement or instruction, meaning the computer can move on to other tasks before waiting for previous tasks to finish. As ...

Comet has popularized asynchronous non-blocking HTTP programming, making it practically indistinguishable from reverse Ajax, also known as server push. In this article, Gregor Roth takes a wider view ...