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Started by PAUL555, 2009.04.21, 19:02:06

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Paul Smedley

Quote from: rwklein on 2009.04.25, 15:40:09
The community is there, like Paul Smedley doing all these GCC ports and tools. And Peter Weilbacher working on Firefox.
It just shows you what you can for an operating system. I'm certain Paul does mind if I tell you that he works as a manager at a large company. Most of the coding he does he does as a hobby in spare time. It just goes to show that it does not have to eat up your time. And as Paul told. (Correct me if I'm wrong Paul) you had a course of C/C++ at the University or something like that. The point is that Paul is as far as I know not somebody specialized in IT. Just goes to show what can be achieved. And we have enough people in the community left to get to work and contribute somehow.

Roderick is correct - all my coding stuff is in my spare time.  In terms of training, I did 1 semester at Uni as part of my Engineering degree that covered basic C programming.  IT has always been a hobby for me, I've never made a living from it.  (Although people at work still gravitate towards me when they have an issue rather than call the Help Desk)

cytan

Hi Paul,
   Just out of curiousity, how do you debug the apps which you port because there's no gdb in gcc3 or gcc4?

cytan

Paul Smedley

Hi Cytan,

Quote from: cytan on 2009.04.26, 06:32:40
Hi Paul,
   Just out of curiousity, how do you debug the apps which you port because there's no gdb in gcc3 or gcc4?

A lot of the time, I use printf's in the code.  If I need to use a debugger, I link with -Zomf, and use the VAC debugger

Cheers,

Paul.

ivan

Hi Paul,

I must say thank you for all the work you have done.

Knowing that programming isn't your main job has inspired me to try and see if I can do anything with DELUGE, a bittorrent client, even though all I learned about programming was in assembler over 40 years ago.

Blonde Guy

Quote from: ivan on 2009.04.25, 13:00:55

Blonde Guy, what you are saying is that eCS works - IF you select the hardware carefully.  That is OK if you are buying new but, and it is a big but, what happens when the client wants to use what they have already?  You don't sell corporate customers pie-in the-sky.


I think corporate and other customers want something that works. For those people, the eCS resellers offer working solutions. I've installed eCS on quite a few clients existing systems. Like most resellers, I offer consulting services for almost any eCS configuration task.

It really isn't that hard to have a good, working eCS system.
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