===== A Short Introduction the Ecere SDK =====


{{history:TalkIcon.png?125x146|TalkIcon}}
====== August Meeting: A Short Introduction the Ecere SDK ======

Date: August 7, 2014 at 7 p.m.\\
Location: [[history:location:29|Shopify Headquarters]]\\


This month we will be having a talk on the Ecere SDK from Jérôme Jacovella-St-Louis, the founder and CTO of Ecere Corporation in Gatineau.

As per our newer format, we will have a one hour pre-meeting item from 6:00 to 7:00 for people who are new to Linux, have general questions, or wish to help out with people who are just getting started.


{{history:ecere_knot.png?263x203|Ecere}}
===== The Ecere SDK =====

Speaker: [[history:speaker:82|Jérôme Jacovella-St-Louis]]\\

Jérôme will be giving an overview on the Ecere SDK - Free Open Source Software (Under the New BSD license). The SDK consists of:

  * Compiling tools for the eC programming language
  * The Ecere Integrated Development Environment (IDE) - Lets you write, build and debug applications, with support for C, C++ and eC programming languages so far
  * The Ecere runtime library - a cross-platform library (Windows, Linux, OS X, Android...) providing:
    * A GUI toolkit A uniform system API across platforms (Threads, Files, Archives, Persiste...)
    * 2D (Fonts, Bitmaps...) and 3D graphics
    * Network Communication

\\


==== About the Speaker ====

Jérôme Jacovella-St-Louis is the Founder & CTO of Ecere Corporation. Jérôme has over 20 years of software development experience with:

  * Software design, architecture and implementation
  * Object-oriented programming
  * 3D graphics programming (Software rendering, OpenGL, Direct3D)
  * Building Graphical user interfaces from the ground up
  * C/C++
  * Linux (Configuration, Networking Setup, Building packages, Development, Assembling distributions from scratch)
  * Various compilers and Integrated Development Environments (Ecere SDK, Visual Studio, GNU development tools/MinGW)
  * Database systems: SQLite, MySQL
  * Platform APIs (Win32 API, X11...)
  * Compiler, parsers and language design/implementation
  * Socket-based network communication
  * Other languages used: C#, Java, Python, BASIC, Pascal, assembly language (Intel and AT&T)


\\