August Meeting: A Short Introduction the Ecere SDK

Date: August 7, 2014 at 7 p.m.
Location: 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.

Speaker: 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

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)