May 15, 2016Building Android from sourceBuilding Android from source seems like a daunting task at first, but it's really not that hard. I'll walk through the steps as simply as possible to get your first AOSP build running on your handset.
Oct 3, 2015Getting setup with the Intel EdisonIntel Edison is an adorable little system on a chip packed with all the wireless and processing capabilities to build wearables and smart things. It features a dual-core Intel Atom processor at 500 MHz, integrated Bluetooth 4 and wifi, USB controllers, 1GB of RAM and 4GB of eMMC flash memory, all in a tiny package.
Jan 11, 2015On key signing and trustKey signing is a hallowed tradition in the open source world with a very specific protocol for validating and confirming an identity before accepting someone to the web of trust.
Jun 2, 2014On Perl and PoetryI first learnt of Perl in the late 90's. Sometime around '98 or '99. Fresh on the heels of BASIC, I was yearning to try out something new when I heard of Perl.
Sep 22, 2013Software Freedom Day 2013 @ VirtusaThis last week, the fine folk at the Virtusa Open Source SIG organized an event to celebrate the Software Freedom Day where my good friends Mifan and Suchetha made keynotes.
Apr 21, 2013Google App Engine + APNSEarlier this month, Google App Engine released support for outbound sockets and I figured that a Saturday spent mucking around with AppEngine to see if I could get it to work with APNS would be time well spent.
Jan 14, 2013Git gutsToday I will dive into the guts of git to showcase the simplicity and elegance in which git manages the content internally in it's own content addressable file system.
Dec 31, 2012Musings on GitHaving spent some quality time with Git over the holidays, my appreciation for the flexibility of this DVCS and the elegance with which it has been constructed has reached a state of awe.
Sep 23, 2010Mahavilachchiya needs you!Several years ago, I got the opportunity to visit a small foundation in the middle of the jungle in Mahavilachchiya that made a strong impression on me and my friends in the LKLUG.
Sep 24, 2008Software Freedom Day 2008An event to mark the Software Freedom Day was organized by the Free Software Foundation and held in Boston over the weekend. I felt that a long drive was just what I needed to get my mind off the series of mini catastrophes that have been taking place at work during the week.
May 29, 2008Debian packaging with git — Part 1Recently, I've been taking a look at tools to version control and maintain my Debian packages in git. Git, like mercurial, is a distributed SCM used to maintain the Linux kernel since version 2.6.12.
Apr 26, 2008On OpenSolarisIn a recent article, Ted T'so makes some interesting points on Sun's motives behind OpenSolaris, and how it fares today in the FOSS ecosystem as a result.
