This in-depth, hands-on article introduces Android, Google's Linux/Java mobile phone SDK (software development kit). After a tour of Android's tools, documentation, and code samples, it suggests a path for further exploration and concludes with a simple applet showing the power and simplicity of the Android environment. Enjoy . . . !
Read more »A developer's perspective on Google's Android SDK
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How To Enable Multiple HTTPS Sites For One IP On Debian Etch Using TLS Extensions
"This how-to is Debian specific but could be ported to other distributions since the concept is the same. In order to use TLS Extensions we have to patch and recompile apache2 and recompile OpenSSL with the enable-tlsext directive.
Read more »Ruby On Rails and Emacs
"I started playing with RoR and of course I use Emacs for this. The following describes setting up Emacs for RoR development."
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Working with Rails – Setting up and connecting to a database
"In this article, authors Elliot Smith and Rob Nichols explain the setup of a new Rails application and how to integrate it with other data sources. Specifically, this article focuses on turning the abstract data structure for Intranet into a Rails application..."
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CouchDB 0.7.0
"The CouchDB development team is proud to announce CouchDB version 0.7.0 is now available at http://code.google.com/p/couchdb/downloads/list ..."
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Paravirtualized Ubuntu shows early performance promise
Early testing has shown that Ubuntu, when run as a virtual guest taking advantage of the new paravirt-ops paravirtualization interface, delivers as promised: it runs faster and more efficiently that it would as an unmodified guest.
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Erlang for Python programmers: Part V
"List comprehensions is very familiar topic for Python programmer. It’s a syntactic sugar which provides a succinct notation for producing elements in list. Erlang: ..."
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Hosting Git repositories, The Easy (and Secure) Way
" have been asked more and more these days, "How do I host a Git repository?" Usually it is assumed that some access control beyond simply read-only is involved (some users have commit rights). With access control comes issues of security, and that's a whole other bag of cats. This post is about presenting an answer to this question, without the fuss.
Read more »Scalable Public Key Infrastructure for both OpenSWAN and OpenVPN
"...This article will document a simple, single PKI infrastructure to manage all your users and their VPN connections with support for both OpenSWAN and OpenVPN..."
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An introduction to XML User Interface Language (XUL) development
"This tutorial is for experienced Web developers who are interested in desktop development but don't want to learn a lot of new technologies. XUL (rhymes with cool) makes it easy to use Web development skills to build desktop applications. It gives you a rich set of UI widgets with a syntax that is very familiar to any Web developer.
Read more »Open source Java - one year later
A year ago this week Sun finally bowed to pressure and agreed to make Java a free, open source project. It was an odd move given Sun's strong resistance to making Java open source for a more than a decade.
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I dunno what people mean when they talk about RPM hell
When people talk about RPM dependency hell, I really have no idea what they’re talking about. Here’s a factual look into RPM that should set the record straight
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Emacs editing environment, Part 7: Let Emacs help you out
"This tutorial shows you how to obtain help from Emacs in various ways. After working through this tutorial, you'll know how to get descriptions of keystrokes, commands, functions, and read and browse through the many documentation resources that come with this world-famous open source editor. [...]
Read more »The Matrix strikes back, or: the return of AIGLX
The lastest update of Mitch Meyran's 3D graphics card drivers matrix.
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Filtering P2P network traffic with ipp2p
"Large and medium size corporate institutional networks suffer now a days from "smart" users who try to get their latest Movie/soft/Music/TVShow downloaded in their office.
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