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Outsourced Engineering

Boulder Tech Job Fair is September 11

Looking for a challenging new opportunity? Don’t miss the chance to learn about nearly 100 available tech positions at 13 technology companies in Boulder on Wednesday, Sept. 11. The Boulder Tech Job Fair, hosted by Cardinal Peak and the Boulder Chamber, will take place from 3-7 p.m. on Sept. 11 at the Boulder Chamber, located... View Article
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Quality Assurance

Regression Testing, the Lazy Way

Regression testing is a simple (and wonderful) idea. The idea is that once you have working software, you should easily be able to ensure it keeps working after further changes are made. This is achieved by constructing a set of tests along with their known-correct outputs, and then re-running these tests after any modifications to ensure the known-correct outputs are still obtained.
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Video

Equalized Video Latency Is Often More Important Than Absolute Latency

When is low latency not that important? Answer: When the application is not real time, which is the case for the vast majority of video that we consume.
Looking for a challenging new opportunity? Don’t miss the chance to learn about nearly 100 available tech positions at 13 technology companies in Boulder on Wednesday, Sept. 11. The Boulder Tech Job Fair, hosted by Cardinal Peak and the Boulder Chamber, will take place from 3-7 p.m. on Sept. 11 at the Boulder Chamber, located... View Article
Regression testing is a simple (and wonderful) idea. The idea is that once you have working software, you should easily be able to ensure it keeps working after further changes are made. This is achieved by constructing a set of tests along with their known-correct outputs, and then re-running these tests after any modifications to ensure the known-correct outputs are still obtained.
When is low latency not that important? Answer: When the application is not real time, which is the case for the vast majority of video that we consume.
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Outsourced Engineering

Five Questions With Howdy Pierce

Howdy was interviewed in the Boulder Daily Camera today: Cardinal Peak specializes in developing embedded devices, mobile and set-top applications and digital video products for original equipment manufacturers. What type of competition is your firm facing? In our field, of course the big trend in the last 10 years is offshore outsourcing. … So for... View Article
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Outsourced Engineering

Beating Your Internal Estimate

Recently, we've had two potential customers say to us, in so many words, "My internal engineering team has estimated this project to take X months, and I think that's too long — can you do it faster?" There are two ways to interpret this...
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Software Development

Cardinal Peak Develops Blockbuster App

I’m proud to announce the release of the Blockbuster app for Android, developed by Cardinal Peak. The app launched this week in the Google Play store. It allows subscribers to manage their Blockbuster By Mail queue as well as find nearby stores, check a title’s availability in a store, and more. Check it out!
Howdy was interviewed in the Boulder Daily Camera today: Cardinal Peak specializes in developing embedded devices, mobile and set-top applications and digital video products for original equipment manufacturers. What type of competition is your firm facing? In our field, of course the big trend in the last 10 years is offshore outsourcing. … So for... View Article
Recently, we've had two potential customers say to us, in so many words, "My internal engineering team has estimated this project to take X months, and I think that's too long — can you do it faster?" There are two ways to interpret this...
I’m proud to announce the release of the Blockbuster app for Android, developed by Cardinal Peak. The app launched this week in the Google Play store. It allows subscribers to manage their Blockbuster By Mail queue as well as find nearby stores, check a title’s availability in a store, and more. Check it out!
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Outsourced Engineering

Five Tips for Writing Good Bug Reports

We normally take the humble bug report for granted, but getting your company to write good bug reports is one of the cheapest and easiest ways you can increase product quality and shorten development schedules. That’s because, when a bug report is poorly worded or doesn’t include all the key information, it takes a lot... View Article
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Software Development

Announcing PhotoDialer for the Palm Pre

Cardinal Peak is proud to announce that our PhotoDialer application is now available for free download in the Palm Pre App Catalog. Our history with Palm and passion for their products encouraged us to get involved early with their platform. Early usage of the Palm Pre left us wishing there were an easier way to... View Article
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Software Development

WebOS List Formatters

Here at Cardinal Peak, we've been doing quite a bit of development on webOS, Palm's new operating system for smartphones. WebOS is based on Linux, and it relies heavily on web standards like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It's a great programming environment, but since it's also rather new, there's a lot of tribal knowledge still…
We normally take the humble bug report for granted, but getting your company to write good bug reports is one of the cheapest and easiest ways you can increase product quality and shorten development schedules. That’s because, when a bug report is poorly worded or doesn’t include all the key information, it takes a lot... View Article
Cardinal Peak is proud to announce that our PhotoDialer application is now available for free download in the Palm Pre App Catalog. Our history with Palm and passion for their products encouraged us to get involved early with their platform. Early usage of the Palm Pre left us wishing there were an easier way to... View Article
Here at Cardinal Peak, we've been doing quite a bit of development on webOS, Palm's new operating system for smartphones. WebOS is based on Linux, and it relies heavily on web standards like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It's a great programming environment, but since it's also rather new, there's a lot of tribal knowledge still…