The integration I do now has nothing to do with the integration I did in college. Calculus was easier…
Agile

Mike Cohn, author of Agile Estimating and Planning, was interviewed by Dina Henry-Scott of Controlling Chaos. Get it here.

Test-Driven Development

Roy Osherove puts a new twist on the age-old practice of code reviews: Test Reviews. He asserts it is actually easier to find logic errors by reviewing the tests.

TestDriven.NET 2.4 Beta is available. With support for NUnit 2.4 RC2. (via The Daily Grind)
Embedded

Some tidbits from Jack Ganssle’s newsletter. DO subscribe!

The Embedded System Conference will be in San Jose, April 1-5. On the menu: the teardown of a Toyota Prius, Al Gore as the keynote speaker, Orange County Chopper in attendance (will Mikey be there?)

Ralf Holly wrote an interesting article on Compile Time Assertions for Doctor Dobb’s Journal. It’s an oldie but a goodie!

Intel, the company that launched the embedded systems industry with their four-bit 4004 in 1971, has announced the end-of-life for most of their embedded processors. The MCS51, MCS251, MCS96, 80X18X, 80X386, 80X486, and i960 will no longer be available. Last buy is March 30, 2007, with final shipments made by September 28.

If you will be porting Linux to an embedded system, take a serious look at “Embedded Linux Primer, A Practical Real-World Approach” by Christopher Hallinan. It goes into much details of what is involved in embedding Linux.

Former Colleague Doug Gaff has a wrap-up of EclipseCon 2007. Why is this under embedded? Because Doug works for WindRiver and they are using eclipse all over the place; builds, debugging, hardware bring-up. Device Software Development Platform… Thinking eclipse = Java is soooo 20th century.