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Ada & C mixed language development

Last week, I downloaded AdaCore's GNAT Pro 6.2.2 and the latest GNATbench 2.3.1 release (which was announced yesterday), as I wanted to port an Ada & C mixed-language application...

15 years 8 months ago

Quit Bugging Me: ABI

What's in an ABI? An Application Binary Interface is a lot like a API – Applications Programming Interface, except instead of just telling you how to make a call, what parameters...

15 years 8 months ago

Happy Birthday

Fourty Years Ago, the product was called Multix. The inventors were directed to stop their efforts and the project was a failure. Through a chain of decisions they changed the...

15 years 10 months ago

Serial Intent

Howdy out there, I realize this is a blog that’s supposed to be about real-time programming issues, and mostly I’ve posted about planetary and space based projects, with a few...

Targeting Your Assets

Embedded folks know that managing your target device is a key part of the development process. While you can do a lot on the host, the ‘rubber meets the road’ when you run your...

Open Source Symbian and the Inescapable Truth of Product Lifecycles

The announcement one year ago that Symbian will be open sourced under a license free platform in 1HCY10 was heard around the world. If we are to believe game theory, the...

Tolerating Delays

This may sound a bit funny, but in the space industry, we'reconstantly playing catch-up. We're either looking at or for thingsthat happened millions or hundreds of millions of...

When will my Smartphone be as smart as a fifth grader?

Mobile mania is upon us. In recent days, we've been introduced to the awesome looking Palm Pre.The Pre is Palm's attempt to share some of the spotlight with Apple'sinnovative and...

Airbus A330 MRTT refueling progress

I was pleased to read in today's news (Aerospace Testing International) that the Airbus A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) has completed more flight testing milestones...

The Software Managers’ Blind Spot....

I’m amazed at the consistency of input I’m getting from device software execs around the world about their lack of visibility into their testing process. Everybody is spending huge...

16 years 1 month ago