I started writing a minimal GLUT-compatible wrapper to run the OpenGL wikibook C++ samples using the Android NDK, and I'm making progress :) The Android NDK is getting nicer with Android 2.3, though it still feels less supported than Java apps (e.g. the resize events seem buggy and the keycodes header is incomplete...). Nonetheless, it's nice to be able to write C++ portable apps.

This release has largely been about paving the way forward for MediaGoblin's future and restructuring under the hood. Nonetheless, a good number of awesome features got implemented for this release.

It's in New York on February 18th, 19th and 20th. There are a lot of places we might make progress. This will be fun for people of all skills and experience. A day of pizza, beer and throwing bits against the box will make for great progress.

Ubuntu tweak is a well known application which allows Ubuntu users to tweak various aspects of their system. The founder of the project, Ding Zhou aka Tualatrix Chou, is talking to us about the nature and the usability of Ubuntu Tweak, the relation with Canonical and the future plans of the project. Enjoy

sh3d is an interior design application with 2d and 3d views. It's easy enough for even children to use and comes with a little library of furniture. You can import models using several popular formats. Once you have sketched your plan, you can make virtual visits into it. Of course this works much better with 3d acceleration. It's surprisingly funny.

I’ve been using Codeigniter as my development platform and framework of choice since last year. Being a ten year PHP developer, Codeigner was a refreshing way of coding web apps with PHP.

There are different ways to take Backup from MongoDB. Using mongodump is one of simple and efficient way to implement it. The bash script presented here take backup from replica set after verifying that current server is slave and then transfer it to separate backup server along with capturing vital information of all steps in log file.