Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 08:00:00 +0000
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chris Tacke is an industry leader in managed application development for industrial process control, medical, telematics, and just about any other embedded industry. Chris specializes in Windows CE and the .NET Compact Framework, and mobile and embedded device application development.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Topics of Discussion:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[2:22] Fun fact! Chris got a degree in Geology long ago, and his first job was doing seismic work and hand-analyzing a lot of data. Chris talks about his first foray into programming, a job in Excel, writing VBA macros to analyze the data.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[4:08] Chris walks us through a job at Microsoft by way of a horse race in Virginia during the .com boom. After the .com crash, he worked at a company that made single board computers and moved to be an engineering manager for the Windows CE department. He was independent for 20+ years before joining</span> <a href="https://www.hypergiant.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hypergiant</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and then</span> <a href="https://www.wildernesslabs.co/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wilderness Labs</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">came onto his radar.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[6:42] Chris is the owner of the Meadow Core pieces and does a fair bit of the driver development.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[8:49] How does the Jetson Nano compare to Raspberry Pi?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[13:47] Chris talks about the first goal to run on modern.net.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[16:41] What is the vision now to say that we need to do this on Linux?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[21:33] Is this the same vision as Maui, to run anywhere embedded?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[23:38] How does it impact the process of building, test suites, and different test environments?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[24:18] Chris talks about Meadow Test Suite, which has the goal to deploy binaries down to a device and find tests that look just like an xUnit test that can then talk to hardware.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[30:56] This totally redefines the term of the “full-stack” developer.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[31:12] What can people utilize today, and what is the DevOps chain Chris and his team are using?</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Mentioned in this Episode:</strong></p> <p><a href="http://architecttips.clearmeasure.com/"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Architect Tips</span></em></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">— New video podcast!</span></p> <p><a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/services/devops/?&OCID=AID736756_SEM_7eul5uID"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Azure DevOps</span></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.clear-measure.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Clear Measure</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(Sponsor)</span></p> <p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/NET-DevOps-Azure-Developers-Architecture/dp/1484253426"> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way,</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">by Jeffrey Palermo</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">— Available on Amazon!</span></p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-ROXy08zc-qTA0-3GAQDLw"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Jeffrey Palermo’s YouTube</span></a></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/jeffreypalermo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Follow to stay informed about future events!</span></p> <p><a href="https://www.wildernesslabs.co/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wilderness Labs Dev Camp</span></a></p> <p><a href="http://developer.wildernesslabs.co/docs/api/Meadow/Meadow.MeadowOS.html"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">ClassMeadowsOS</span></a></p> <p><a href="https://github.com/WildernessLabs"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wilderness Labs — Github</span></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-systems/jetson-xavier-nx/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Jetson Xavier NX Series</span></a></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Want to Learn More?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Visit</span> <a href="http://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">AzureDevOps.Show</span></em></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">for show notes and additional episodes.</span></p>
