Programutvikling has been training developers for over 20 years, and is now a part of NDC Conferences AS. We offer workshops, on-site training courses, and events for software developers. 

Training for Software Developers

Programutvikling

This two day, hands-on, workshop will give you a chance to explore numerous types of hardware interfacing, including:


For the hands-on portion of the workshop we will be using Raspberry Pi boards to implement a smart door bell


In the lectures, you will learn the theory necessary to implement such a device. Starting from power on, we will consider how Linux discovers what hardware is attached, and especially the role of the device tree. We will look how Linux represents hardware internally through the device driver model and the sysfs file system, and how it loads device drivers for each component of hardware. Then we will see how to interact with device drivers from user-space programs to make a working system.


We will be using the industry standard Yocto Project to build the disk images for the target. If you are not familiar with Yocto, don’t worry: we will be covering the fundamentals of Yocto as well.


The workshop is suitable for anyone working with Embedded Linux, or IoT devices, or is just curious about how things work


To get the best out of it you will need good command-line Linux skills (grep, find, bash), good C/C++ coding skills, and a basic knowledge of computer architecture (memory address spaces, interrupts, DMA)

Many of the things around you have Linux embedded inside: WiFi routers, smart thermostats, smart door bells. When writing code for these devices you have to be aware of the techniques available to access the hardware at a low level.



Cisco
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Cisco Webex

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Kongsberg

Nordic Semiconductor

Tomra

Zivid

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Magazinet Kongsberg

At JetBrains, code is our passion. For over 15 years we have strived to make the strongest, most effective developer tools on earth. By automating routine checks and corrections, our tools speed up production, freeing developers to grow, discover and create.

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Chris Simmonds is a software consultant and trainer living in southern England. He has spent almost two decades designing and building open-source embedded systems of all shapes and sizes, and he has encapsulated much of that experience in his book, “Mastering Embedded Linux Programming”.

He is a frequent presenter at open source and embedded conferences, including the Embedded Linux Conference and Embedded World. You can see some of his work on the “Inner Penguin” blog at www.2net.co.uk

Chris Simmonds

Hardware Interfacing with Embedded Linux

Embedded

Linux

Architecture

Software Design

Product Design

Everybody knows how to write apps for Android, but few know how to create the Android platform itself. This workshop will show you how. Using source code from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) you will will build a custom Android image based on Android 11 and a 5.4 kernel. The target hardware is Goldfish, known to most people as the Android emulator

You will get a chance to go through a complete – but intensive – product cycle, starting from a bare device configuration. You will make it buildable by adding it to the lunch menu, then customize the image by selecting the packages to add, and finishing up with a few customizations such as adding a boot animation

The second part of the workshop is to use this base platform to create a (simple) smart doorcam. For this you will be writing a platform app – the kind that is bundled with the system images – and using lock task mode to create a single use “kiosk mode” device

This workshop is very much hands-on. As a takeaway you will have the slides, workbook notes and the end result. Plus, worked examples to help you along

Building Android

Platform

In this session, I want to broaden our horizon on having this holistic perspective on our responsibility for sustainability that comes with software development. I will share both ideas about possibilities and examples from companies who make already an effort in implementing this holistic perspective because sustainability becomes more and more a success factor for every company: For finding and keeping both clients as well as talent. Thus, this session is about raising awareness of our contribution to sustainability and understanding the (first) steps we can take to make a difference.


The world is on fire! None of our improvements in software development will matter at all if we can’t change the course of the climate crisis. The software lifecycle creates direct and indirect carbon emissions: it has a footprint, worsening environmental problems. However, the environmental aspect is not the only one we need to focus on. If we take our task seriously, we have to take a holistic view of software development in the sense of the so-called triple bottom line from all three sustainability perspectives: social, economic, and ecological.

Jutta Eckstein works as an independent coach, consultant, and trainer. She has helped many teams and organizations worldwide to make an Agile transition. She has a unique experience in applying Agile processes within medium-sized to large distributed mission-critical projects. Jutta has recently pair-written with John Buck a book entitled Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy (dubbed BOSSA nova). Besides that, she has published her experience in her books Agile Software Development in the Large, Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams, Retrospectives for Organizational Change, and together with Johanna Rothman Diving for Hidden Treasures: Uncovering the Cost of Delay in your Project Portfolio.
Jutta is a member of the Agile Alliance (having served the board of directors from 2003-2007) and a member of the program committee of many different American, Asian, and European conferences, where she has also presented her work. She holds a M.A. in Business Coaching & Change Management, a Dipl. Eng. (MSc.) in Product-Engineering, a B.A. in Education, and is trained as a pollution control commissioner on ecological environmentalism.

Jutta Eckstein

The Planet sends an S.O.S. – Taking Responsibility for our Carbon Footprint

Testing

Design

Product

You will get a chance to go through a complete – but intensive – product cycle, starting from a bare device configuration. You will make it buildable by adding it to the lunch menu, then customize the image by selecting the packages to add, and finishing up with a few customizations such as adding a boot animation

The second part of the workshop is to use this base platform to create a (simple) smart doorcam. For this you will be writing a platform app – the kind that is bundled with the system images – and using lock task mode to create a single use “kiosk mode” device

This workshop is very much hands-on. As a takeaway you will have the slides, workbook notes and the end result. Plus, worked examples to help you along

Everybody knows how to write apps for Android, but few know how to create the Android platform itself. This workshop will show you how. Using source code from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) you will will build a custom Android image based on Android 11 and a 5.4 kernel. The target hardware is Goldfish, known to most people as the Android emulator