John-EE

Software Engineering, Data Science, and General Nerdness

Programming

General Programming Resources

Github

I use Github for version control.

Question: How do we ensure the project doesn’t get out of control with to many branches?

The solution lies in having the discipline to merge and delete branches as soon as a new feature is implemented completely. My suggestion is if you have taken the project a different route that the master branch is intended to go, then fork the repository and create a new repository for that new direction.
That way your repositories are clean and simple.

Software Architecture

Real-Time Software Architecture: This stackoverflow post is interesting.

I believe Publish/Subscriber would work best for us.

A middleware standard that uses the publish/subscriber method is the Data Distribution Service (DDS). It would likely do what I need.

Other Documentation and Links

Command Line

Command Prompt

Here are the basics of command prompt.

Matlab From the Command Line

Here is an post about calling from the command line a MATLAB function that takes parameters.

Writing Batch Files

Batch file programming can make things much faster when used right. I have all my invoices auto-generated via one batch file. I click it and BAM done.

Python

Other Information

Here are two stack overflow post about using python to parse strings and split strings.

MATLAB

MATLAB TCP IP Socket

Here is a great page from MATLAB’s documentation that will explain how to write/read to/from a TCP socket from MATLAB’s side.

This code uses a bigEndian byte order.

It sends the messages via binary files using MATLAB’s fwrite method.

Things To Learn

This list is made of what I need to look into. These skills would be helpful.

  • D3 is a data visualization framework.
  • Electron is a javascript framework for making desktop applications.
  • ActiveMQ is a messaging and integration pattern for apache.
  • Interprocess Communication.
  • Learn Negociating!
  • Learn Machine Learning because it is where everything is going.
  • Learn and use Agile and the systems engineering V in my projects.
  • Learn python!
  • Build a hardware model in Cadence and link it to the software in Matlab.
  • Build the smallest full stack desktop app that will help me build tools for any need.