March, 2012
15 March 2012
Learning Outcomes
Explain the characteristics of memory systems
Describe the memory hierarchy
Discuss cache memory principles
Discuss issues relevant to cache design
Describe the cache organization of the Pentium
Computer Memory Systems
There are key characteristics of memory…
13 March 2012
For anyone out there that has a Samsung and wants to enable GSM modem tethering. Here are the steps….
13 March 2012
Learning Outcomes Explain how integers can be represented in a computer Use assembly language to perform arithmetic and logical operations on integers on a Pentium Use assembly language to perform bit manipulation operations on a Pentium Explain how floating point numbers are stored in a computer Show how a floating...
10 March 2012
I’m new to vim and to nasm… several months ago I put up a post on how I had discovered a tutorial on VIM and was going to give it a second try – my first attempt failing dismally. At the time my second attempt fell through after about two...
09 March 2012
Learning Outcomes Describe the internal structure of the CPU in general Describe the register organization of the x86/Pentium Describe what an interrupt is and what happens when an interrupt occurs Describe what an exception is and what happens when an exception occurs Describe the instruction cycle for indirect addressing Discuss...
03 March 2012
Learning Outcomes
Identify the addressing mode used in a given instruction
Give examples of instructions in which specific Pentium addressing modes are used
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different instruction formats
Addressing
Addressing mode used in an instruction indicates the way in which the operand is accessed.
01 March 2012
If you are new to NASM like me – you might find the following code snippets useful just to get started… (this is targeted to the Windows environment, it may be different in Linux)
01 March 2012
I loved reading this book. Many of the principles of refactoring and speaking the ubiquitous language hit a home run with me. Also some of the patterns and practices to implement in complex systems really appealed to me. An easy and enjoyable read to get used to DDD
February, 2012
11 February 2012
Retrospectives are a tricky thing, you get a mix of people who have varying personalities and qualities and now they need to look objectively at the previous iteration, focussing on the performance of the team and interact, giving ideas and finding ways to improving the team practices for the next...
08 February 2012
I recently did a course at the local university on Software Engineering. At the beginning of the course I looked over the outline of the subject and there seemed to be some really good content. It covered traditional & agile project methodologies, some general communication and modelling chapters and finished...
04 February 2012
Every now and then I go to Tiobe to see their ratings on the popularity of programming languages. Usually there is nothing exciting out there, just a few small moves of languages so I was interested to see in December Tiobe had a headline of C++ about to be dethroned...
01 February 2012
This introductory book to Windows Phone 7 Development was a great read. Some of the principles of Silverlight were explained very elegantly and effectively and it was a good base to start learning WP7 development. One of the better framework dependent texts out there.
01 February 2012
I found this book fairly limiting… it’s main purpose is to bridge the gap from vb6 and c++ programmers moving into C# and at the time of its writing I am sure it was invaluable, however reading it a few years after publication one can see that it is dated....
January, 2012
31 January 2012
I have been looking into InRule, a business rule management system (BRMS) from InRule Technology, recently and thought I would do an intro blog on it. I have worked with business rule engines before and from past experience have developed my own list of priorities on what I feel are...
31 January 2012
A friend of mine works for a large bank… about a year and a half ago they needed a new system developed for their division. They went through the normal process of using one of the recommended service providers to develop the system and this was their experience, which is...
30 January 2012
Today I had an issue with Jenkins where I wanted it to perform a set of tasks, but not worry about the exit code of any of the tasks…. In my instance I was using Jenkins to run DotCover to check the code coverage of a solution and then run...
30 January 2012
I have been a member of GWB for a while now, and have really enjoyed it. There is a sense of community and I enjoy some of the feedback and comments I get from other posters as well as reading other community members blogs. Part of the reason of joining...
28 January 2012
I have recently been using NDbUnit for integration tests exercising the database. I am new to the tool, so the following exception caused a few hours of scratching my head before I figured out the obvious.
24 January 2012
I am not the fastest typist… I know it. Up till about a year ago I was a two finger typist and my two fingers could fly over the keyboard doing all sorts of acrobatics getting me up to a whopping 30 odd words per minute. Not bad for two...
23 January 2012
Today I thought I would just list a little tutorial on how to make an RSS feed reader in C#. The code is very simple…
