How to bring fully distributed and secure communication capabilities to embedded products and IOT (Part 2). In a previous article, we presented our work on including Jami in Yocto. This was a huge step to make Jami available on all types of devices. But this Yocto layer was only usable for x86 architectures. In fact, […]
How to bring fully distributed and secure communication capabilities to embedded products and IOT (Part 1). Jami is a communication tool developed by Savoir-faire Linux. It is available for Windows, MacOS, standard Linux distribution like Ubuntu or Fedora and smartphones (Android and iOS). In order to give the opportunity to use Jami in embedded products […]
Recently, our ‘AI Robotics Programming’ Team has delivered a proof-of-concept robot used to explore and map unknown industrial and residential spaces while identifying floor types. The robot (with the exception of its Roomba chassis) is fully built from open-source (OS) hardware and software components. The result is an elegant blend of genetic algorithms and neural […]
Savoir-faire Linux participated in the tenth edition of DrupalCamp Montréal, which was held this year at Concordia University. It was the occasion to catch up with a good proportion of the Drupal developer community in Montreal, to exchange ideas with other companies that work with this technology, and to have an overview of how Drupal […]
Special Edition on PyConCa 2017 This week, we attended PyCon Canada which started on November 18 and lasted through 21. We are also proud and happy that we played a role in sponsoring this dynamic event. In this Special Edition of Press Review Inno, you find articles from our SFLers who actively participated in the […]
Mobility Generic Protocols and Type Erasure in Swift By Thibault Wittemberg With Swift, you can define protocols by associating one or more generic types. These types are defined using the “associatedtype” keyword. The name “Generic Type” is a bit misused here. We should actually talk about a placeholder for a reserved type. Indeed, we will see that […]
Design Atomic Design By Patrick Bracquart Since the early days of the web, we talk about what goes into creating a Web “page”. This term shows how our vision of the web was informed since the 90s: it came from an architecture that was structured as a series of documents, like if they were printed […]
Web Development Node.js releases LTS of version 8.x By Jacob Cook The release schedule for Node.js provides for updates in long-term support (LTS) most every October, and this year will be no exception. Node.js offers developers a happy Halloween gift this year in transitioning its current version branch (8.x) to a stable LTS version. This means that […]
Mobility RxSwift 4.0.0 Final Version Released! by Romain Bertozzi As mentioned in one of our last press reviews, we remain interested in and excited about new developments in the RxSwift project. The core developers pushing RxSwift forward have already released the fourth and most current version of it this past October 17 – i.e. RxSwift […]