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    NASA is still the cool place to work

    17 June 2013

    Engineers still want to work for NASA, according to Universum's research.

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    Assert() and other useful C language macros

    3 Comment(s) 17 June 2013

    Assertions and other C macros have been of tremendous use to developers in dealing with coding bugs. But why are they still debated especially within...

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    Code: The Good and the Ugly

    5 Comment(s) 17 June 2013

    Careful C craftsmanship creates correct code. Saying it five times fast is easier than doing it.

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    Reflections on virtual functions in C

    2 Comment(s) 12 June 2013

    Understanding how to implement virtual functions in C is useful for a variety of reasons, one of which is to see why you should be using C++ instead...

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    Ada-2012 separates engineers from poets

    8 Comment(s) 12 June 2013

    A splash of color here, a buffer overrun there. This method should truncate but sometimes it rounds when returning pounds. Or is it kilograms?...

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    Evolution of automotive software testing

    11 June 2013

    Hardware in-the-loop meant engineers could do software integration and testing on an engine controller unit before a prototype of the physical plant...

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    Asserting failure

    12 Comment(s) 10 June 2013

    Debugging is hard. We need to seed our code with constructs that find bugs automatically.

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    Bare-metal firmware porting 101

    8 Comment(s) 30 May 2013

    Porting firmware is more common as technology improves. Bare-metal firmware ports can be difficult to do without some planning. This article covers...

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    iFixit's The Amazing Break: Military Files

    27 May 2013

    Ever have your iPhone run over by a Humvee or two? For Memorial Day, iFixit, the repair site for electronic gadgets, is sharing some of the best of...

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    High-tech jobs migrate

    7 Comment(s) 22 May 2013

    A new jobs report shows where high-tech jobs in U.S. are moving.

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