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Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO; procedure Happy_Ada_Lovelace_Day is begin puts(“Happy Ada Lovelace Day!”); end Happy_Ada_Lovelace_Day; Yep – it’s Ada Lovelace Day . She invented...

15 years 8 months ago

Avionics 09

I am back in the office after a busy few weeks at Embedded World and Avionics 09 . I read in the news that the third C-130AMP has its first flight ahead of schedule which is...

15 years 9 months ago

Windows 7

The blogosphere is all atwitter about Windows 7. (Sorry…bad mixture of metaphors.) I must confess that I've installed it, but not on a mission-critical system. For a "Ballmer Beta"...

15 years 11 months ago

Time to Get Qt?

Now this is interesting. I've mentioned a few times in my blog that the world would be a different place if Qt was given a free commercial friendly license, like LGPL. Of course...

15 years 11 months ago

Zune 30, Killed by Complexity

I first heard of it early New Years Eve, I guess. Hoards of Microsoft Zunes were committing mass suicide (a gruesome thought but the actual quote from the Slashdot article). Fears...

15 years 11 months ago

A look at WebKit

A few days ago, I was playing with Google's V8 JavaScript VM library and got it compiling with MinGW in Wascana . I submitted the patch to make it work but I haven't heard back. I...

15 years 11 months ago

VirtualBox 2.1 and assorted Christmas Fun

Just some random thoughts on this Saturday after Christmas. My family and I had a good Christmas, despite a little “Fun with Autism” moment with my Autistic son, but it’s all...

15 years 11 months ago

I could have had a V8, oh wait, I do

I've always been intrigued by programming languages and what makes them tick, and what is the best one for what situation. That's why Dave Thomas's keynote at ESE still has me...

x86, the ultimate applet engine?

I need to watch out or people will start calling me a Google fan boy or something (well, too late). It seems everything they come up with lately grabs my attention. And I guess it...

Linux Kernel Debugging with CDT

Just ran into this awesome tutorial on how to use the CDT for debugging the Linux kernel using qemu’s gdb remote debug service that makes it work much like a standard hardware/JTAG...