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The PSoC Poet

Dave Van Ess is an Application Engineer and Member of Technical Staff at Cypress Semiconductor focusing on PSoC. Dave has nearly 30 years of design experience and unique personal style have been key to the success of PSoC.  In this section of PSoCDeveloper Dave shares whatever is on his mind.  Welcome to his mind. Please wipe your feet before coming in!

 

The views expressed here are those of the authors and not necessarily those of PSoCDeveloper or Cypress Semiconductor.

 

Gawd I hate the caps lock key
Friday, June 6, 2008

I hat it. Never wanted it and never needed it.  I just keep hitting it be mistake.Well Barry Gackle, one of our young Apps Engineers gave me a program that change the windows registry to make it look like a shift key.

 

To some of you this may seem obvious and basic, but I am impressed.

 

If you want a copy just e-male me at dwv@cypress.com and I will send you a copy.

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I'm Back
Friday, June 6, 2008

I have been away for a while.

 

I was in India, Minnesota, Dever, San Jose, and the Panama Canal.  I did all of this while having a good case of "Delhi Belly".  It is a really good way to lose weight of you don't mind where the weight goes.

 

There are several things that cannot reall y be understood without seeing them in person.

 

The Tajma Hall and Mount Rushmore fall into this...

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Looking to hire a Field Applications Engineer in Minneapolis
Friday, April 25, 2008

It started when our Field Applications Engineer (FAE) in Austin got married and moved to Washington.  The Minneapolis FAE wanted to move to Texas so we are short an FAE in Minneapolis.

 

If the job interests you e-mail me at dwv@cypress.com include a resume.

 

 

As a FAES your job would be to knock down any technical barriers that keep customers from giving us money.  The job will...

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Food for Thought
Thursday, April 3, 2008

I always thought how funny it was that in Science Fiction movies the villain is able to create some complex dooms day system all be himself.   I used to laugh at that.    Lately I have come to the conclusion  that maybe he was able to do it because he never had to go to meetings, create documentation, or write memos.

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Message to BWK
Thursday, April 3, 2008

Brian

It is such an honor to receive correspondence from you.  I learned C in 1979.  Back then it a choice between Basic, Fortran, or Pascal.  We call C "Universal Assembly".  I used your book and learned it in a week.  I hold your book up as an example of how a technical book should be written. 

 

If that didn't insure greatness, your book "Software Tools" surely...

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