Media Type

This blog will be many things related to QNX. I’m in an excellent position in that I work at QNX, and I’m given full freedom to blog my thoughts and experiences at QNX on my own website.

To start off with, I’d like to introduce myself:

Hi, I’m Dan Cardamore.

I’m currently employed with QNX as a software developer and work in the multimedia team. I’ve been at QNX for almost three years now so I’m still fairly new to lots of QNX technologies, but on the bright-side if you’re reading this blog hopefully you’ll enjoy learning with me as I post my thoughts on subjects here.

As far as software development goes, I have to say that multimedia is a lot of fun. You can talk to anyone on the street or in your family regardless of age or technical understanding and say “I work on multimedia systems, like the CD player in your car only with color screens”. Our middleware software is called “MME” and stands for MultiMedia Engine and allows other developers to create multimedia applications quickly leveraging all the work we’ve done.

I’m not the usual developer at QNX. I use Mac OS X as my desktop OS rather than a supported development environment from QNX. As far as I know I’m the only one, but I hope someday that will change. QNX is an awesome OS, especially when you want to make an embedded product or you require real-time or multi-node capabilities, but I prefer a bigger fancier desktop OS. Linux is an excellent OS but its nowhere near as polished as Mac OS X for desktop use and doesn’t have the same application support. I won’t even bother mentioning what I think of Windows as a desktop.

Its late and I need to sign off, but in my next post I’ll talk more about my development environment and how I set it up.

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