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The linker post for this episode is Be Excellent to Each Other.

Dennis Jackson spoke with us about drones (and Airware), simple code, and learning.\xa0

Hobbyist drones and UAVs on Amazon: tiny and cheap, \xa0medium (Christopher's\xa0gift), andplease-I'm-drooling-right-now. Only the last one may be\xa0an Airware\xa0platform (Dennis could neither confirm nor deny).

Airware's breakdown of proposed\xa0FAA rules

Simple code:

• Cyclomatic complexity
• Chris Svec's episode on empathy driven design (he'll also be at ESC Boston!)
• Test Driven Development for Embedded C\xa0by James Grenning
• Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Dennis has also worked on DEKA's iBOT\xa0and at Avinger's OCT system.

Dennis had a list of suggested articles and blogs\xa0on safety critical software development:

• 30 Pitfalls for Real Time Systems (part 1 and part 2)\xa0
• Rules for defensive C programming
• Joel Spolsky's blog\xa0(see top 10)
• Why are you still using C
• The Power of Ten -- 10 Rules for Writing \xa0Safety Critical Code\xa0

Dennis' other suggested reading (ongoing blogs):

• Coding Horror
• Jason Sachs's Embedded Systems\xa0
• The Old New Thing
• Rands in Repose\xa0(management and leadership)