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How is the software in my smart thermostat developed? In the worst-case scenario, deadlines, cost and competitive products force electrical engineers to shrink the printed circuit board (PCB) to fit within a predefined package. These postage stamp-sized boards bring a multitude of challenges for development. Learn how development printed circuit boards can help while reducing cost.
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At Cardinal Peak, quality assurance is of utmost importance. Our QA team works continuously through every project to reduce uncertainty and ensure your product gets to market.
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Why is quality assurance so important? At Cardinal Peak, we engineer quality testing into each step of the engineering process to reduce uncertainty and ensure your product gets to market.
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In times like these, we asked ourselves, “what can we do to help?” Enter Cardinal Peak’s engineering expertise. This post highlights our efforts to help Columbia University develop CovidWatcher, an application that surveys users about their exposure, symptoms, access to medical care, and how the coronavirus and restrictions are impacting their daily life.
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Katalon takes the need for learning to program or even the complicated setup of all the tools needed to run a test script and throws it all in a one-stop shop that can be picked up by anyone of any technical skill level in short order to create automation.
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Tesler’s passing caused a few of us to reflect on how computing has evolved into two separate categories: engineers and everyone else — and the cut/copy/paste function is an outstanding example of this separation.
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Election season is here (these days, does election season really ever end?), and we’ve already had our first controversy. A few weeks ago, Iowa took its traditional position as the first state to hold caucuses, with the winner aiming to leverage that momentum and earn their party’s nomination. But this year was different. The 2020…
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Do you need dbus?
There are command line programs for most system management functions. However, these traditional interfaces now talk dbus to get the job done. For example, the shutdown command actually uses dbus to tell …
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Cross-platform development languages such as React Native are truly changing the game. From developers and designers to scripters, folks in QA and product owners, everyone wants a one-to-many relationship from codebase to platform. Who wouldn’t want to write the source once and release on both iOS and Android? It sounds great, right? Well, it is,…
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In my last post, I talked about resource management, and how RAII, Resource Acquisition is Initialization, is important in C++ because of the guarantees it provides. In this post, I’ll show how we can make the same guarantees in C. In C++, RAII provides a solution to resource management and the issues arising with exceptions.…
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