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break points and in the editorial. Need an Lean Enterprise Institute— RTOS? A compiler? An embedwww.lean.org/Events/Webinar ded Cobol compiler? Keil ran Home.cfm an ad in these pages for just IEEE Spectrum Radio Onthat product a couple of years line—www.spectrum.ieee.org ago. On April Fools Day. Software Quality EngineerOnce engineers strove to ing—www.stickyminds.com/ acquire and save all relevant podcasts/ knowledge. In fact, a system Agile Project Management— called the “EEM File” helped http://community.feature catalog the data in ﬁle cabinets. plan.com/community/webinar This is no longer possible due _archive/ to the sheer proliferation of inIT Measurement and Proformation and the move to ductivity Institute—www.itmpi. electronic repositories. But org/webinars Website EmbeddedGurus.net features blogs by embedded systems engineers, some of whom plenty of other venues, in print have been columnists, editors, and authors for and online, exist. Although there are a number Embedded Systems Design magazine. It’s hard to remember life of embedded blogs, these two before Google. Maybe seem the most interit’s the old fart in me, esting and are reguThere are a lot of fabulous resources on the larly updated: but I feel Internet searches have one huge ‘net for developers who wish to stay problem: they lack Embedded Gurus, connected to this ﬁeld. serendipity. Put a magaa collection of blogs zine in my hands, and I from Mike Barr, newspapers, a cultural part of the have to ﬂip through the pages, lookNiall Murphy, Larry Mittag, and landscape for centuries, struggle in the ing for interesting stuff. Paging others—www.embeddedgurus.net face of electronic competition. That’s a through an initially uninteresting arAtomic Object—http://spin. shame. Regardless, there are still a lot ticle, maybe an odd graph claims atomicobject.com/embedded-corner of valuable print resources for embedone’s attention, revealing a pretty intriguing facet of the ﬁeld never previ- ded systems developers, which I’ve USENET and other groups concovered before (see my 2005 Breakously considered. tinue to provide useful forums for us. points column “The Fourth Estate,” Then there are the ads. BigDogSome of the better ones include: www.embedded.com/175007088). Firmware just went from their usual quarter-pager to a full color, full page Lean Software Development— ONLINE spread? They must be doing well; http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group Although I prefer a hardcopy magamaybe their product is worth a little /leandevelopment zine over an e-version, there are a lot deeper examination. Only by reading Lean Software Development of fabulous resources on the ‘net for the ads can we keep up with comand Scrum—http://tech.groups. developers who wish to stay connectmercial product offerings that may yahoo.com/group/leanagilescrum ed to this ﬁeld. I’m thankful to Dave help or even save a future project. Agile Embedded—http://tech. Kellogg for ﬁnding many of them. Magazines are a push technology; groups.yahoo.com/group/Agile He’s a big believer in using podcasts they place unexpected contents in Embedded while driving and exercising for selfyour hands. The Internet is much comp.arch.embedded more a pull venue that delivers exactly improvement. Here are some recomcomp.realtime what you’re looking for. That’s incred- mended podcasts and webinars: ibly useful but terribly narrow. I was As professionals we have a rerecently building a control circuit and sponsibility to both our employers Agile Toolkit—http://agile found a number of useful high-power and our careers to be on top of the toolkit.libsyn.com drive chips online. None quite ﬁt my latest thinking about embedded sysDeveloper Works (IBM)— application. Then a friend sent a scan tems and the latest resources that are www-128.ibm.com/developerof an old article that gave me a available. We have to be like doctors, works/podcast canned solution. who spend more than a little time Manager Tools (highly recYet print publishing has been in reading professional journals to stay ommended)—www.manager decline for a number of years. Even current. After all, stasis is death. ■ -tools.com • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 48 JULY 2008 | embedded systems design | www.embedded.com http://www.lean.org/Events/Webinar http://www.spectrum.ieee.org http://www.stickyminds.com/podcasts/ http://www.stickyminds.com/podcasts/ http://community.featureplan.com/community/webinar_archive/ http://www.itmpi.org/webinars http://EmbeddedGurus.net http://www.itmpi.org/webinars http://www.embeddedgurus.net http://spin.atomicobject.com/embedded-corner http://spin.atomicobject.com/embedded-corner http://www.embedded.com/175007088 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/leandevelopment http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/leanagilescrum http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/leanagilescrum http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AgileEmbedded http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AgileEmbedded http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/AgileEmbedded http://groups.google.com/group/comp.arch.embedded/topics http://groups.google.com/group/comp.realtime/topics http://agiletoolkit.libsyn.com http://agiletoolkit.libsyn.com http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/podcast http://www.manager-tools.com http://www.manager-tools.com http://www.embedded.com

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