AGILE. The new corporate buzz phrase for hacking on the fly. Keller MBAs in a room sounding like a yard full of chickens chanting “cut costs, cut costs, cut costs” have been falling all over themselves because when you remove engineering from “software engineering,” it’s cheaper. You can even use lower skilled, lower cost developers because they don’t have to know much to do AGILE. Software engineering is the application of principles used in the … Did AGILE make the 737 Max fall from the sky?Read more
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Second Worst Case of Food Poisoning Ever
Food poisoning is one of those illnesses you never forget. Humans could have a million colds over their lifetime and at best will remember one. Food poisoning though, that shivering under a pile of blankets, spewing from both ends 24-48 hours is a trauma the brain doesn’t let go. Ordinarily I try to keep the medical discussions a little higher policy/society type level. Mostly I speak of the medical device industry that I’ve been working … Second Worst Case of Food Poisoning EverRead more
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Speeding Up Libre Office 6
I’ll never understand what goes through the minds of those who plan LibreOffice. I guess they wish to size it to run on an idiot phone instead of a real computer. Maybe they are chasing the Raspberry Pi market trying to make everything work in under 2Gig of RAM. They are really killing the desktop market doing that. Featured image by Free-Photos from Pixabay Big Files = Big Problems This weekend I started applying the … Speeding Up Libre Office 6Read more
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Qt and USB – Pt. 8
The line of significant import in the code of the previous port: init_and_set_protocol( handle, 19200, 8, 0, 1); By and large, USB devices aren’t just a piece of wire you can claim then shove stuff out. There tends to be a processor of some kind and it needs configuration. Many management types will utter something like, Let’s use USB to communicate. USB 3.0 is way faster than serial ports. Well, that’s true. It’s also true … Qt and USB – Pt. 8Read more
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Qt and USB – Pt. 7
It took quite a bit of poking around to get as far as I am. Doing a whole bunch of training at a new client site and coming home with a brain of mush doesn’t help either. Adding insult to injury it seems that 90% of the “working code” posted on Stack Exchange is non-functioning feces which won’t even compile. When you need grown up answers, don’t go to Stack Exchange. It’s a place for … Qt and USB – Pt. 7Read more