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2011-6-26 10:11
The art of writing when creating software
Here's a quote from Donald E. Knuth : " Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that o ...
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2011-6-25 16:04
Engineers as chick magnets
One of my readers identified as tfc shared that years ago engineers were "babe magnets," but he laments that's no longer the case. Sadly, my ex ...
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2011-6-25 15:57
15 bugs away from being all set
Based a story on Internet.com's eCRM Guide , Drupal, a content management system, has previously experienced severe delivery delays due to bug inf ...
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2011-6-25 15:56
Bringing back watchdogs (Part 2)
ARM supplies a bewildering array of debugging IP, including a macrocell that sends trace data out just two pins. The so-called Program F ...
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2011-6-22 11:31
4-bit processors: Are they dead?
I had an interesting discussion with Robert Cravotta regarding four-bit processors. He came up with the Embedded Processing Directory which lists ...
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2011-6-22 10:56
Bringing back watchdogs (Part 1)
Almost a decade ago I wrote a series of three articles about watchdog timers (WDT). At the time, it was my argument that most WDTs were poorly desi ...
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2011-6-21 10:08
We need math!
Teaching any kind of math beyond basic arithmetic is not necessary. That's my reading of a piece written by G.V. Ramanathan, professor emeritus of ...
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2011-6-21 10:05
Determinism & the reliability of systems
Building predictably reliable systems is the point of engineering. However, most firmware engineers ignore the role of determinism in real-time sys ...
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2011-6-17 20:07
Making "Software Engineering" Engineering
Michael Linden alerted me to an article in Dr. Dobbs website wherein the author expounds on the hopes of a significant group of well-known people ...
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2011-6-17 20:06
Software Engineering versus "real" engineering
Are we engineers? In some states in the US that title is restricted to those who pass professional competency tests. The New Oxford ...
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2011-6-16 13:33
Code reviews - going beyond codes
I get a lot of links to videos every day. Regardless of the video sites they are on, I do pretty much the same: click, delete. While I'm sure they ...
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2011-6-16 13:30
Choosing a development platform
A few months ago, I shared my experience in switching to a Mac laptop after several years of using Windows portable machines. In the ensuing months ...
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2011-6-14 11:27
The demise of 8 bits
There's no denying it. This is a 32/64 bit world. Just read the news for proof. If you're not building a system with the latest high-end ...
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2011-6-9 18:10
Skip bugging to speed delivery (Part 2)
Clearly you can't measure defect potential unless you track every bug found during development, whether discovered in an inspection or ...
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2011-6-9 18:05
Firmware Metrics
Last 2009, I gave a talk at the Embedded Systems Conference which covered, among other subjects, code inspections. Inspections are sure to ...
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