http://www.diag.com OO applied to embedded, device, and real-time applications en-us Copyright 2005 Digital Aggregates Corp., Arvada CO 80001-0587 USA. jsloan@diag.com webmaster@diag.com 1440 http://www.diag.com/pictures/RSS_Logo.gif http://www.diag.com 32 31 OO applied to embedded, device, and real-time applications http://www.diag.com/news/MemoryModels.html http://www.diag.com/news/MemoryModels.html Presentation: Implications of Memory Consistency (or Lack of It) Models for Java, C++, and C Developers Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:14:10 MST http://www.diag.com/news/BetterFirmwareFaster.html http://www.diag.com/news/BetterFirmwareFaster.html Seminar Review: Jack Ganssle, Better Firmware Faster, 2006 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:54:46 MST http://www.diag.com/news/KindnessOfStrangers.html http://www.diag.com/news/KindnessOfStrangers.html Article: Depending Upon the Kindness of Strangers: Notes on Open Source and Free Software Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:55:00 MST http://www.diag.com/news/VasterThanEmpires.html http://www.diag.com/news/VasterThanEmpires.html Article: Vaster than Empires and More Slow: The Dimensions of Scalability Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:55:13 MST http://www.diag.com/news/DoWhileFalse.html http://www.diag.com/news/DoWhileFalse.html Article: In Praise of do-while (false) Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:55:30 MST http://www.diag.com/news/TheWisdomOfCrowds.html http://www.diag.com/news/TheWisdomOfCrowds.html Presentation: James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds, Doubleday, 2004 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:12:45 MST http://www.diag.com/news/MeasurementDysfunction.html http://www.diag.com/news/MeasurementDysfunction.html Presentation: Robert Austin, Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations, Dorset House, 1996 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:12:33 MST http://www.diag.com/news/JoelOnSoftware.html http://www.diag.com/news/JoelOnSoftware.html Book Review: Joel Spolsky, Joel on Software, Apress, 2004 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:56:04 MST http://www.diag.com/news/ChinaJournal.html http://www.diag.com/news/ChinaJournal.html Travelogue: China Journal: Dancing with a Sleeping Giant Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:45:59 MST http://www.diag.com/news/BestSoftwareWritingI.html http://www.diag.com/news/BestSoftwareWritingI.html Book Review: Joel Spolsky, Best Software Writing I, Apress, 2005 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:55:44 MST http://www.diag.com/reports/ATMTrafficManagement.html http://www.diag.com/reports/ATMTrafficManagement.html This document describes the various mechanisms used by the ATM network to manage traffic, including connection admission control, cell emission prioritization, traffic contracts, and the generic cell rate algorithm. Sat, 03 Sep 2005 10:37:43 MST http://www.diag.com/reports/ATMRouting.html http://www.diag.com/reports/ATMRouting.html This is a brief introduction to ATM routing and the myriad of protocols that may be used to accomplish it. Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:04:31 MST http://www.diag.com/reports/ATMAddressing.html http://www.diag.com/reports/ATMAddressing.html This is an introduction to ATM addressing, including DCC, ICD and E.164 address formats, and the use of MAC addresses for ESIs. Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:18:10 MST http://www.diag.com/reports/ATMFailureModes.html http://www.diag.com/reports/ATMFailureModes.html This document describes some of the more interesting and perhaps subtle failure modes that I and my colleagues have seen while debugging ATM device software and troubleshooting ATM networks. Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:24:09 MST http://www.diag.com/reports/ATMAnnotatedCauseCodes.html http://www.diag.com/reports/ATMAnnotatedCauseCodes.html This is a list of the ATM Cause Codes from the ATM Forum UNI 3.1 specification, along with annotations based on my personal experience and that of many others debugging ATM device software and troubleshooting ATM networks. Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:33:22 MST http://www.diag.com/reports/TCPWindows.html http://www.diag.com/reports/TCPWindows.html This is a tutorial on why windowing protocols are necessary, how TCP window sizes can be set from the application, and how window shifting/scaling can be used to support high-bandwidth, high-latency communication channels. Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:06:26 MST