An Evening of Service at Northeast Iowa Food Bank
A month or so ago an employee reached out to me asking about information regarding arranging a group volunteer event at the Northeast Iowa Food Bank. We’ve done such volunteer …
Summer Travels 2019
The DISTek Leadership Team embarked on some summer travels recently, taking it to the streets and visiting each of our primary locations throughout the Midwest to meet, greet, eat, celebrate, and have some fun. With our employee owners scattered across several states, it is important to support teamwork and collaboration. Hosting picnics and yard games seemed to be a great way to promote unity and togetherness while at the same time letting our guards down a bit and taking some much needed time out to have a good time and get to know each other a little better outside of the work place.
Where in the world is DISTek Integration?
Here at DISTek, there has been a flurry of industry events that are taking us around the country and around the globe. A couple weeks ago…
DISTek Founder Retires, Yet His Legacy Continues….
After 27 years of selfless service to DISTek, our founder, Matt Dickinson has taken on a new journey…. RETIREMENT! All of us here at DISTek thank him for all he has done for not only the company as a whole, but for all the individual employees as well. We will miss his guidance, generosity, and fun spirited nature. Here’s to filling his days with plenty of St Louis Cardinals baseball, quality time with the grandkids, and social events around his hometown of Carthage, IL.
DISTek to host booth at Embedded Systems Conference
The Embedded Systems Conference partnered with the Drive World Conference and Expo is just around the corner. DISTek is gearing up to host a booth at the event in Santa Clara, California August 27-29 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.
Understanding the C Tool Chain
I find that in today’s age of IDEs like Visual Studio, Eclipse, Code Blocks, etc., that many developers get hung up on linker issues. This is completely understandable as many languages have moved away from the compiler/linker paradigm toward single compilation units or virtual machine code. Also, these modern development environments hide many of the steps that it takes to get a working executable out of working code. The result is that most of the C developers I run into are very familiar and are even experts in the C language itself, but unexpectedly struggle when presented with a build configuration issue.
My Journey to FIRST World Championships in Detroit
My initial exposure to FIRST robotics came when my son joined the Cedar Falls High School robotics team as a sophomore back in 2012. At that time, I thought it would be a fun little activity for him to be involved with. I really had no idea what being a part of a FIRST team meant. Boy, have I come a long way.
Now, seven years later, I do know what it means. As it turns out, there is nothing “little” about it. It is the most….
AUTOSAR Diagnostic Event Manager: Part 1
Basics and Functional Behavior
From an application developer’s point of view, AUTOSAR diagnostics are relatively straightforward. There is, however, some terminology to learn before understanding AUTOSAR diagnostics. If you are unfamiliar with the services offered in the AUTOSAR BSW or how applications communicate in AUTOSAR-compliant software, please read the linked articles for more information.
A Fresh Look at Plugfest
I am looking around at all the people entering the large ballroom at the Embassy Suites in Lincoln, NE. As I wait for the buzzer that will announce the first 35-minute rotation, signaling someone I have never met, from somewhere I have never been, to come to my station, I am nervous and excited and unsure what to expect. While I may sound like a desperate bachelor at a speed-dating event, I assure you that is not the case. I am a software engineer, new to the world of ISOBUS, attending a Plugfest event for the first time. Plugfest is an event held twice a year, where the best and brightest minds in the ISOBUS industry come from around the world to test their offerings, checking for compatibility with other ISOBUS equipment manufacturers.
DISTek Celebrates 100th Day of Work in 2019
Why should kids in school have all the fun? Here at DISTek we firmly believe that you never get too old for celebrations, costumes, and laughter. It is in that spirit that we decided to celebrate the 100th day of work in 2019 on May 21st.
100% Employee Owned
So did you hear the rumor? Maybe you got the information first hand, or read it in an email or saw it posted online somewhere. Certainly, as avid followers of this blog, you would recall me hinting about the possibility last September right here in this space. Right? That’s right – DISTek now has a new majority owner!
AUTOSAR: Sender/Receiver Statuses & Queued Communication
In this blog, I will cover some tools to improve reliability and accuracy of data reception when using sender/receiver ports. AUTOSAR sender/receiver ports provide several configurations for improving reliability and accuracy. Two of which I will expand on are invalidation policy and queued communication. Invalidation policies are used for flagging data as unreliable and queued communication provides a means of storing and ordering received data to prevent data loss.
