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Have you ever wondered how Agile Coaching works in real life? What if you encouraged it while guiding other professionals to become Project Managers at the same time? In this article, we are taking a closer look at how you can combine the two scenarios — or even better, how you can apply Agile values and principles while mentoring in order to…
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Ethereum DevCon4 ended recently, after 4 full and intense days, with tens of talks, workshops, and satellite events, gathering more than 5.000 attendees. Here are a few of my takeaways from the event. Day zero The first talk I attended was Refundable ICOs by Fabian Vogelsteller. RICOs are trying to shift the power from the fundraiser to the investor by using two different…
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After the ICO hype has slowly faded, attention may move back to actual applications that can benefit from blockchain infrastructure. Everybody knows about payments and tokens but what are some simple use cases where a blockchain can help solve an actual business case? Every digital object, be it a video, a bank statement or a legal contract lives in a binary…
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In the previous two articles in this series about IoT infrastructure development, we examined the challenges of choosing and securing a framework. In this entry, we’ll take a look at some of the considerations around rolling out updates to the established network. Obstacles to transition The complexity of an IoT network presents a number of challenges to rolling out updates. Software is distributed over…
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We closed the previous article about choosing a framework for IoT infrastructure with some indications of some of the requisite security considerations for this type of project. This time we’ll examine three specific aspects of IoT infrastructure security. It’s worth considering that ease of implementation for these factors is likely to vary across larger and smaller vendors, and across types and scopes…
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If developers occasionally feel hamstrung by MISRA’s restrictions, those (thankfully) rare incidents of catastrophic embedded software failure in the news put this level of circumspection back into context. In the previous posts we took a look at the rise of C as the dominant language for safety-critical embedded systems, and then examined some of the pitfalls programmers can fall into when using such a powerful tool, and the need…
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In the last post, we recapped the emergence of C as the dominant programming language for embedded automotive systems, from its roots in Unix in the early 1970s up to gathering criticism around its relative eccentricities as the platform matured. We also covered the emergence of safety standards ISO 26262 and IEC 61508, as well as the launch of MISRA C….
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In the 1980s electronically controlled ignition and fuel injection systems were the first major embedded systems deployed for the automotive industry, as ignition and injection analog units started to be progressively replaced by the more controllable digital alternatives facilitated by the availability of microcontrollers.  Electronically-controlled ignition and fuel-injection systems were the first major embedded systems deployed in the automotive industry,…
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