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Month: September 2022

Limitless Containers without dynamic memory allocation in C/C++.

September 25, 2022
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Lists, FIFOs, dictionaries, maps, etc. are handy-dandy data structures when designing and implementing code.  However, most container implementations either use […]

Never Trust the Software Guys: Why is writing software hard?

September 23, 2022
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 |  Never Trust the Software Guys

My first response is a yet more questions. Is the question why is writing software hard about an individual software […]

Never Trust the Software Guys: Software is always late

September 18, 2022
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 |  Never Trust the Software Guys

This posting is the first in a series of postings (okay rants) on what goes wrong with software development, my […]

Visual Studio — not just a desktop IDE

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Visual Studio is one of the better C/C++ source code editors available today that provides Intelligent Code Completion and source code […]

Pico Storm: A case study of the Main Pattern

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 |  Never Trust the Software Guys, PIM, Raspberry Pi Pico

In my book — Patterns in the Machine: A Software Engineering Guide to Embedded Development — I discuss the Main Pattern. The Main Pattern states […]

Pico-Sketch: A case study of a functional simulator

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 |  Colony.*, PIM, Raspberry Pi Pico

The Pico-Sketch application is an etch-a-sketch like game running on the Raspberry Pi Pico using the Pimoroni Pico-Display as the user interface. Why does the world need 1.14″ […]

Introduction to Colony.Pico

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 |  Colony.*, Raspberry Pi Pico

Colony.Pico is my Github repository for Raspberry Pi Pico projects that are built using the Raspberry Pi Pico C/C++ SDK and the Colony.Core […]

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