Episode 280 – PowerScripting Podcast – Glenn Block and Oisin Grehan on Asynchronous Programming
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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast, we talk to Glenn Block and Oisin Grehan** News**
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You can now register for the [PowerShell Summit Europe!](http://eventmgr.azurewebsites.net/event/home/PSEU14)
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The Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson is speaking at the [Charlotte SQL Server User Group Aug 13th](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/charlotte-sql-server-user-group-wed-aug-13th-meeting-invitation-and-rsvp-registration-12338993261?aff=es2&rank=4)
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Washington DC [Office 365 Ramp-Up Day](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/washington-dc-office-365-ramp-up-day-tickets-11958858267?aff=es2&rank=6) is August 15th
Interview
Guest - Glenn Block and Oisin Grehan
Links
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Glenn Block [@gblock](https://twitter.com/gblock)
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Oisin Grehan [@oising](https://twitter.com/oising)
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[Intro to async/await and asynchronous programming in .NET 4.5](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh191443.aspx)
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Oisin’s [psasync project on github](https://github.com/oising/psasync/blob/master/AsyncCallJobSource/Commands/RegisterAsyncCallEventCommand.cs)
Chatroom Highlights:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXC_9KazCvQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXC_9KazCvQ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh191443.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar https://connect.microsoft.com/PowerShell/feedback/details/838221/powershell-must-support-calling-async-apis https://connect.microsoft.com/PowerShell/feedback/details/838221/powershell-must-support-calling-async-apis http://www.manning.com/jones6/ sweet! http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html https://github.com/oising/psasync/blob/master/AsyncCallJobSource/Commands/RegisterAsyncCallEventCommand.cs Shattered Planet, on ios and android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kitfox.shatteredplanet https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shattered-planet-rpg/id698929655?mt=8 https://twitter.com/gblock https://twitter.com/oising https://github.com/oising/psasync http://www.nivot.org/ https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-csharp-pcl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettabyte
But Oisin, we still can’t deal with async callbacks like filters, we have to receive everything and filter them afterward.
The Question - Mission to Mars
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Helena Christensen
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Glenn Block - a really large iPad (I mean, large storage capacity)