To all the people who singed up to test GAIQL , I will be emailing you a link so you can view a night release build system. Also these testers will get the beta , while the public will be getting the alpha ( the same one i used in the code when i showed the example). The differences in alpha and beta release is that the beta has an extremely fast GAIQL parser while the alpha is realtivly buggy. By all means if you want to be a beta tester just email me faisal @ g-unix . com and youll be in on the latest cool stuff!

One of the coolest things about Silverlight is that it is using languages from the .NET platform such as C# and Visual Basic. While we all know VB is crap , C# is quite a powerful language especially with its vast amounts of cool libraries in which you can do all sorts of neat stuff. One of these libraries is the ParallelFX by Microsoft which lets you make your code take advantage of multiple cores on the clients computer. But what does this have to do with silverlight, well you can make your silverlight application use C# and have C# take advantage of the cores making the application much fast. Also you can use PLINQ which is a parallel implementation of LINQ .

On a side note if your looking for a solution like LINQ on the flash platform, check out my previous post on GAIQL which is essentially a PLINQ implementation in actionscript

For the past week I have been deeply involved over on the .NET side working with C#, Parallel FX and PLINQ ( Parallel LINQ). LINQ has been very useful as it saved me tons of times getting data back from large data structures and I thought to my self it would be neat if there was something like this for Actionscript 3. Well after i finished my work with .NET I fired up Flex Builder and started to work on a library for actionscript that does exactly what LINQ does . Its turning out to be really great and i want to give a few people the chance to test it out . If you want to play around with GAIQL (G-unIX Actionscript Integrated Query Language) then leave a comment or email me at Faisal@g-unix.com with the subject GAIQL Tester . Ill send you the swc to test it out.

For others who want to wait till the final release (Why Would you do that!) here is something that might convince you . Say if you wanted to check if an entry was in the array , all you would have to do to find out is the following :

private var q:GAIQL = new GAIQL()
private var result:Array = q.Call("FROM myarray GET thevalueiwant" ,this);

and the value you want doesn't have to be hard coded, it can be passed as a variable . Then you can simply check the length of your result array to see if it got populated or not .