Interesting Company: Beyond Semiconductor

BSemi created and supports the open source OpenRISC 1200 processor

Beyond Semiconductor

Interesting Company: Vesta Design

Lower level semiconductor verification tools:

Vesta Design Explorer

Interesting Company: GateRocket

FPGA EDA tools company:
EETimes.com - FPGA tool startup 'rockets' for success

Interesting Company: Global Locate

Welcome to Global Locate

The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives

Interesting article on the emerging economics of open source

Dirk Riehle: The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives

good jumpers

Ya know, it's the obvious things that are hard to find these days.

I particularly like these jumpers, though I guess I should refer to the by their technical name: shunt. they have a little bar on the top that you can hook a probe onto, or solder a wire to.


Mouser P/N
649-68786-202LF

Virtuoso Incognito

I'm a huge fan of street musicians, always stopping to give money, if not to take time to smell (listen to?) the roses.

Here's an article about a concert violinist who went busking in the Washington DC subway, and was summarily ignored.

Pearls Before Breakfast - washingtonpost.com

syntax highlighting editor widget for qt

A packaging of the Scintilla syntax highlighting widget for QT:
Riverbank : QScintilla : Overview

In defense of PowerPoint?

Don Norman's jnd.org / In Defense of PowerPoint artical makes some decent points. Bad speakers are the problem, not bad PowerPoint.

We're sticking untrained drivers behind the wheel of the car.

excellent description of a daily stand-up

Direct, backed up with links to scholarly papers, a great link to send to people:

http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/itsNotJustStandingUp.html