Very cool. Can this be used to make a better quadrature encoder multiplier? The ones we get in our programmable rotary encoders are pretty crappy when the input frequency wobbles.
Generally Aethelstan gets pretty good coverage on TRIH and the episodes on that era are some of my favorites. Also, the VIP membership tier is called "Athelstan" if I remember correctly.
Chicken coop auto-door opener so I don't have to get up at 4AM in the summer. It was just a basic Arduino system but I learned that large canning jars make excellent enclosures: waterproof, reusable, easily modified and replacable lid.
A lot of the software engineering approaches from that era (refactoring, TDD, patterns) make more sense in the world I grew up in: large pre-compiled code bases where everything other than the base OS layer is under the engineer's control. If you have to ship your SW as an installable which will end up on someone's machine far away your mindset will be more defensive.
In this day and age of vastly distributed systems where distribution and re-distribution is relatively cheap we can afford to be a little less obsessive. Many exceptions still exist, of course, I would think that the teams developing my car's control system might warm up to TDD a bit more than someone putting together a quickie web app.
This is a great resource, hadn't heard of most of them. I still think Eclipse is fantastic although not something for a quickie session, for that I'd probably use command line or the simple curses GUI.
I have to say, though, much as I enjoy working on and with Linux full-blown Visual Studio Enterprise is really in a league of its own but not really complaining that a similar debugger for C++ under Linux doesn't exist yet.
I had no idea - I really like that and I think we should all adopt this convention. I could use "opposite beautiful landscaping" for my address, not sure what my neighbor would put in.