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Last weekend my 10-year-old daughter and I went to the National Aquarium here in Baltimore to see the new seahorse exhibit. Amidst the tanks displaying…
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Good technical conferences always trigger in me a process I call “connecting the dots.” No doubt most of you go through something like it: looking…
An Oxymoron?At April's Embedded System Conference in San Francisco I moderated a “shop talk,” a round-table discussion on strategies for building firmware. Scheduled for 7:00…
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