Device Drivers, Part 14: A Dive Inside the Hard Disk for Understanding Partitions
This article, which is part of the series on Linux device drivers, takes you on a tour inside a hard disk. “Doesn’t it sound like a mechanical engineering subject: The design of the…
Lisp: Tears of Joy, Part 8
Lisp has been hailed as the world’s most powerful programming language. But only the top percentile of programmers use it because of its cryptic syntax and academic reputation. This is rather unfortunate, since…
Developing Applications on QT, Part 1
This article introduces application development using the Qt GUI framework. There was a time when all desktop applications were developed from scratch. Then came the concept of code reuse. Static and shared libraries…
Working with MTD Devices
This article shows how kernel and application developers (in C) can make use of MTD in Linux. MTD (Memory Technology Devices) are NAND/NOR-based flash memory chips used for storing non-volatile data like boot…
CodeSport (January 2012)
In this month’s column, we take a short break from our discussion of compiler optimisations and feature a set of questions for computer science interviews. We have been discussing compiler optimisation over the…
Joy of Programming: Understanding Bit-fields in C
One important feature that distinguishes C as a systems programming language is its support for bit-fields. Let us explore this feature in this column. In C, structure members can be specified with size…
Lisp: Tears of Joy, Part 7
Lisp has been hailed as the world’s most powerful programming language. But only the top percentile of programmers use it because of its cryptic syntax and academic reputation. This is rather unfortunate, since…
CodeIgniter: Form APIs, Validations & Pagination Techniques
In the previous article on CodeIgniter, we discussed the concept of the MVC structure used in CodeIgniter, did a “Hello world” program, and a simple program with database connectivity. Now, let’s take a…
Device Drivers, Part 13: Data Transfer to and from USB Devices
This article, which is part of the series on Linux device drivers, continues from the previous two articles. It details the ultimate step of data transfer to and from a USB device, using…
Loading Library Files in C++
This article demonstrates how to load shared or dynamic library files in programs written in C++, which is not as straightforward as in C. Device drivers and library files have always been associated…
February 3, 2012 montuviky — Away-some post will love to read all (and more :) )
February 1, 2012 Noufal — It is good to see, how the farmers are benefited from the open source. 
February 1, 2012 Douglas DSilva — Well Written Jalaja and happy to see that how the open source helps the local people. And I am more...
January 31, 2012 Metztli_IT — ♺ @schestowitz #GNU/ #Linux on POWER http://t.co/CByGKz87 taste of #IBM #RedHat #SuSE support on#POWER systems http://t.co/TXoNhNo2 #Watson
January 31, 2012 Fred Holahan — Excellent introductory article. What's really interesting about NewSQL is the rapid emergence of use cases from both "traditional economy"...