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• Operating Systems

  Mar 12, 2012

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  Ray Keefe

  in Embedded Software, Software Design

  Software Operating Systems The Operating System is the core Software Architecture component that determines how the overall system task execution happens. Over time, a number of Operating System types have been developed. For this post, we will focus on Embedded… Continue reading

• Software Reuse: Software Architecture

  Mar 6, 2012

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  Ray Keefe

  in Embedded Software, Software Design, Technology

  Modular Software One of the primary goals of modern Software Development is the creation of code that is reusable. This is known as Software Reuse or Code Reuse and the results so far are pretty disappointing. There are a number… Continue reading

• Software versus Hardware

  Feb 24, 2012

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  by

  Ray Keefe

  in Embedded Software, Product Development, Technology

  Electronics Hardware The idea for this post came from an interesting article by Bryan Murdoch who also writes a blog on technology topics. In the article he looked at why some developers can be Averse To Change and made some… Continue reading

• Australian Manufacturing Jobs

  Feb 17, 2012

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  Ray Keefe

  in Electronics Manufacture, Engineers, Made in Australia

  Australian Manufacturing Jobs In some recent conversations it became clear to me that most people I talk to in Australia don’t understand both how large the Australian Manufacturing sector is or how critical manufacturing is to Australian Employment and Australian… Continue reading

• Big Data

  Feb 10, 2012

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  Ray Keefe

  in Big Data, Technology

  Big Data You have probably heard the term Big Data by now. I certainly mentioned it in passing in my post on Information Overload. So I was amused to receive the final edition of IEEE Computing in Science & Engineering… Continue reading