April 1, 2006 Meeting Concludes

The april meeting concludes! Mark Vander Voord gave a presentation on Embedded Systems programming. Mark gave an excellent overview of what embedded systems programming is, and where ruby fits (or doesn’t fit) in. If you are a low-level-coder wannabe who can turn his toaster into an mp3 player or reverse engineer his gameboy advanced to be his linux PDA…

you should have been here

The april meeting concludes! Mark Vander Voord gave a presentation on Embedded Systems programming. Mark gave an excellent overview of what embedded systems programming is, and where ruby fits (or doesn’t fit) in. If you are a low-level-coder wannabe who can turn his toaster into an mp3 player or reverse engineer his gameboy advanced to be his linux PDA… you should have been here!

More pictures are to come, as well as more content on the presentation itself! There is an open invitation for Mark Vander Voord to come and speak anytime on this intriguing topic.

A Note On The Presentor

Mark VanderVoord has been an embedded software engineer for almost a decade. His background includes GPS, automotive, user interface design, and autonomous vehicles. He strongly dislikes C and is diligently searching for something better.

On a side note, how many toasters are still in tact after that meeting?

p{margin:1em;border:1px solid #green}.I took several pictures but I have only uploaded the one below. I am planning on posting Mark’s presentation, the outline of the presentation, more pictures and some information about Mark and his work.

Thanks to everyone who brought food at the last meeting. We had enough to feed an army!