Greg Williams

Cheap Checks for Validation of Hardware Designs

Hardware mistakes are costly to address. We present some cheap methods to keep check on the 'human element' that that plagues electrical design work.

Developer Tools

Extending Sublime Text… Now for Vim Lovers Too!

Sublime Text’s Vim mode provides good coverage of the basic Vi Command Mode, but it retains the full capabilities of Sublime while in Insert Mode.

Embedded Systems

Conversing JSON with Qt and Ruby

A simple command processing engine in C++ using Qt and QtScriptEngine for parsing JSON. The server, which initiates simple exchanges, is written trivially in Ruby.

Project & Team Management

Tear Down the Walls! – Shattering Team Boundaries

When our teams are divided, we forget about the big picture and lose time. Communication is the key to keeping us together.

Embedded Systems

ThrowTheSwitch Improved with Tools & Tips for Embedded Developers

ThrowTheSwitch is a central hub for embedded software development techniques, forums, and free and open-source tools.

C & C++

Acceptance Testing C++ with Cucumber and the Wire Protocol

The following example shows how this works with C++ using Cucumber-Cpp, plus an example that comes bundled with it.

Embedded Systems

Lightweight Objects in Embedded C

Project & Team Management

Practicing ‘Agile’ Doesn’t Necessarily Make You ‘agile’

Practicing ‘Agile’ Doesn't Necessarily Make You ‘agile’

Embedded Systems

SVUnit Brings TDD to Logic Design

Unit-testing and TDD could benefit logic design, since ASIC bugs are expensive to fix. SVUnit is a promising endeavor for the Verilog crowd.

Growing as Makers

Applying Agile to Hardware Development

The motivations and principles of Agile are applicable to many engineering disciplines outside of software development, including hardware itself.

Extracurricular Activities

How to Replace your iPhone 3G/3GS Glass, Digitizer, and/or LCD

After about 3 years of dropping my iPhone 3G on various occasions, a drop onto the tile floor at Atomic HQ did her in. Here are the trials and tribulations to bringing the thing ba

Embedded Systems

Cross-Platform GUIs with Ruby and GTK

A lightweight example that loads a simple prebuilt text editor window from a Glade UI designer file and implements open, save and quit operations via menu items.

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