Two years ago, I pulled out my dusty copy of David Allen's Getting Things Done and decided to do a another skim through. Things were getting out of hand and I really needed to get my act together in managing the daily barrage of endless activity.
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.
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 at 500 MHz, integrated Bluetooth 4 and wifi, USB controllers, 1GB of RAM and 4GB of eMMC flash memory, all in a tiny package.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
