A watchdog timer may one day save your life or, better yet, your career. Although this statement is a little melodramatic, the proper use of this tool separates the hackers from the programmers in ...

The good thing about computers is they do your work for you, right? If you are a programmer, that doesn’t always seem to be a true statement. [Runtimemicro] has the answer, at least if you are writing ...

Timed activities such as sports, gaming, and cooking are monitored and alerted with digital timers. A digital timer uses an electronic counter circuit to keep track of timed events or activities based ...

Unless your app is a background location services, VOIP, or music app, your app can only run code in the background for about 15 minutes-- after that, your app gets suspended and your only way to ...