Building 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. This is a rite of passage for many, and guaranteed to give
Intel 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 @ 500 MHz, integrated Bluetooth 4 and wifi, USB controllers, 1GB of RAM and 4GB of eMMC flash memory, all
Key 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. It’s almost never done without meeting the person being admitted into the trust relationship and it goes like this:
I 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. I heard it’s what the Internet ran on and it had an almost mythical air
It has been an interesting year in ways that I did not anticipate. Looking back, I’d like to recount a few things so that I don’t forget the experiences that have dramatically altered my worldview, hopefully for the better. I’d like to remember these fleeting moments, as
This 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. Also in attendance was Arunan, so it was a re-union of sorts with some old friends. It’s been a
Earlier 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. In the sandboxed world of GAE, lack out outbound socket support meant
Today 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. Armed with this knowledge, you will be able to get a deeper understanding of the underlying data structure to help
The week so far has been an eventful one. Being bed-ridden has made me pensive and nostalgic about my childhood, and long for the simpler days. I was specifically dwelling on the subject of interpreters and compilers which took me back to when I was nine, when I asked my
Having 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. I remember following the BitKeeper debacle of 2005 on Kernel Traffic that spawned the project that would
After much internal debate and turmoil, I finally succumbed to the idea of purchasing a Kindle. I must say that I’m quite pleased with the product, having been an early adopter of the Sony Reader and paying dearly for it, with the added insult to injury when Sony decided
I recently picked up “Handcrafted CSS” at the local bookstore and flipping through it has revived my old love of design. At the heart of this process is the separation of content, style and behavior in DHTML that evokes notions of beauty in the code that drives the pretty layouts
