To Root Or Not To Root?
We bring you real, live information from our community on what they think about rooting their Android phones. ‘Will you ever root your Android Phone?’ Few weeks back, when we posted this poll…
Code Sport
In this months column, let us continue our discussion on dynamic languages, focusing on JavaScript. In last months column, we explored dynamic languages and how they are translated. While Web 2.0 accelerated the…
Custom ROMs for Android: CyanogenMod and More
Wondering what’s the next step after rooting your Android phone? Read on to know all about beefing up your phone with custom ROMs for Android. If you’ve got an Android phone…
Making Your Code Walk: GNU Autotools
Have you ever wondered why so many files are shipped in a software source tarball for Linux? Or dreamt of making your own newly developed package highly portable across various Linux platforms? This…
Getting Your First Job
In this month’s column, we take a break from discussing technical topics and talk about what most students care about getting a job. I get numerous mails from students just out of college…
OpenMP Schedule Clause Parallel Matrix Multiplication
Even in this multi-core era, traditional programming methods don’t take full advantage of multi-core systems. To do that, applications must use threads to execute code in parallel. OpenMP, an API for writing multi-threaded…
Symfony, NetBeans, XAMPP The Perfect Trio for PHP Web App Development
This article describes the perfect environment for developing Web applications in PHP on the Windows platform (though the software is also available on Linux). One of the most difficult situations developers face is…
‘Linux was chosen for Raspberry Pi with a purpose’
A credit-card sized computer with good capabilities at $25 is definitely amazing. Raspberry Pi is a trend-setting device. You may or may not like it, but you certainly cannot ignore it. Many small-sized…




