Michael Christen

Recent Posts

  • April 15, 2018

    Django Rest Framework

    Django is Python’s killer app and DRF is Django’s killer app.Django Rest Framework, DRF, is a framework that can be used to easily createAPI endpoints in your django application. If you’d like to learn more about it,I’d highly reccomend checking...

  • March 10, 2016

    Summary of "Test-Driven Development for Embedded C" by James W. Grenning

    PrefaceTest-Driven Development for Embedded C by James W. GrenningInitial ThoughtsI enjoyed this book. It clearly demonstrated the usefulness of TDD and what ismore it layed out a clear way to start performing TDD in C. This book may havewandered ...

  • February 08, 2016

    Summary of "Making Embedded Systems" by Elecia White

    Making Embedded Systems by Elecia WhiteInitial ThoughtsMaking Embedded Systems elucidated a bunch of nuggets of wisdom, but in doingso, felt like a hodgepodge of disconnected ideas, thrown in when thought of andlacking any coherent goal to strive ...

  • January 18, 2016

    Summary of "Programming Embedded Systems" by Michael Barr & Anthony Massa

    PrefaceI’ve recently embarked on the lofty errand of writing a book on Embedded Systems.After getting propositioned to write a book about quadcopters for Arduinos, theidea about writing a book just got more and more enticing. But, after I lostcont...

  • May 22, 2015

    Taipei

    The observant reader may have noticed that I skipped a couple of daysin my last blog entry, that is because I’m trying to group my accountsin a manner that seems sensible, and grouping by city seems to be agood way of doing things right now. So, I...