http://mvista.com/blogs/jefro Open-source musings on our weird wired world Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:10:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Next month, CELF will present its annual Embedded Linux Conference. In my mind this is THE go-to event for embedded Linux - small, friendly, and packed with embedded Linux experts. If I had one conference to attend in the course of the year, this would be the one. ... http://mvista.com/blogs/jefro/2010/03/12/keynotes-announced-for-embedded-linux-conference-collaboration-summit/ Normally I think Andreas Constantinou is one of the smartest guys in mobile computing today. He knows the business inside out. His latest post, though, has me wondering: The Wintel future for mobile: a wakeup call for network operators hits on about seven of eight cylinders for ... http://mvista.com/blogs/jefro/2010/03/11/wintel-like-future-for-mobile-perhaps/ Scott Berkun is the author of several very intuitive books, including his most recent Confessions of a Public Speaker. In his latest blog post, he propounds a method for focusing meetings on the work at hand by preparing properly, starting on time, and staying for only 22 minutes, preferably ... http://mvista.com/blogs/jefro/2010/03/05/the-22-minute-meeting/ This is apparently my week off from posting and discussing open-source issues, both here and on my own blog where I recently posted about flying cars. Today, we report that Popular Mechanics has created an archive of their entire 137-year history and placed it online for free. Completely ... http://mvista.com/blogs/jefro/2010/03/04/popular-mechanics-creates-free-archive/ If there is any single person reading this blog who has the slightest interest in mobile computing and has not already taken my advice to go read everything there is to read on the Vision Mobile blog, well, now is your chance. Vision Mobile is packed with research and ... http://mvista.com/blogs/jefro/2010/02/27/mobile-world-congress-news-from-andreas-constantinou/ A site called FreeTechBooks is offering free computer science e-books in non-DRM PDF. These are NOT pirated books - most are books with open licenses. There are books, textbooks, and lecture notes in a wide variety of well-organized technical categories, including computer science (as a science), programming, logic ... http://mvista.com/blogs/jefro/2010/02/17/free-technical-books/ More news from MobileWorld Congress in Barcelona. Am I the only one who thinks this is far more interesting than CES? ARM smartbooks, DIY smartphones, and lovely dual-core Cortex-A9 Notion Ink's very cool Adam tablet Other Android tablets (link from the NYT no less) Qualcomm's unbelievable new backlight-free screen called Mirasol http://mvista.com/blogs/jefro/2010/02/17/more-news-from-mobileworld-congress/ For those of us who couldn't be there, here are some of the interesting headlines (from an open-source perspective, naturally): Maemo + Moblin = MeeGo Flash and AIR for Android OMAP 4 HTC to unveil e-reader Verizon going 4G this year (will believe when I see it) Bug Labs is now OMAP 3, Beagle Board compatible LTE ... http://mvista.com/blogs/jefro/2010/02/16/news-from-mobileworld-congress-in-barcelona/ This great news was just announced this morning. Montabello is a very fun, lightweight platform, and the concept is compelling. Most of the time, devices are off or idle, but when you want them on, you want them on NOW. Montabello resolves this very well by remaining ... http://mvista.com/blogs/jefro/2010/02/11/montavistas-montabello%e2%84%a2-mid-platform-wins-vme-and-critical-systems-magazine-editors-choice-award/ Embedded magazine has produced an excellent multi-part article on the basics of programming embedded processors, all excerpts from Wayne Wolf's book Computers As Components: Principles of Embedded Computing Systems Design . This is exactly the kind of educational material for which Embedded is known, and which is badly needed. ... http://mvista.com/blogs/jefro/2010/01/25/basics-of-programming-embedded-processors/