The Socket API, Part 4: Datagrams
Let’s try to develop server clients using UDP, the protocol behind some important services like DNS, NFS, etc. UDP, the User Datagram Protocol, is a connectionless protocol. This means you don’t establish a…
Device Drivers, Part 11: USB Drivers in Linux
This article, which is part of the series on Linux device drivers, gets you started with writing your first USB driver in Linux. Pugs’ pen drive was the device Shweta was playing with,…
Let’s Play with CodeIgniter
Here’s a basic introduction to CodeIgniter, an open source Web framework that helps to quickly develop dynamic websites with PHP. To get started, you need to install the framework (I assume you already…
Android App Development: Hardware and Sensors
I’m back with another article on Android application development. This time, we will discuss how to access some of the phone’s hardware components like the camera flash, accelerometer, etc, with two simple applications…
The Socket API, Part 3: Concurrent Servers
In this part of the series, we will learn how to deal with multiple clients connected to the server. Welcome to another dose of socket programming! Till now, we’ve created servers that are…
Creating Your Own Server: The Socket API, Part 2
Earlier, we created a simple server and client program using the socket API. This time, we’ll first start with a program, and then explain what’s going on. So start up your systems, and…
Integrating Google App Engine and Eclipse
Ever wondered what Google App Engine and cloud computing is all about? Here’s an easy way to try it out, by integrating it with Eclipse. It makes everything much simpler if you get…
Connecting to MySQL with Python and PHP
We all know the power of MySQL — one of the most used open source databases and a challenge to proprietary products of the genre. Python and PHP are well-known scripting languages. We…
Creating Your Own Server: The Socket API, Part 1
In this series of articles aimed at newbies to network programming (knowledge of C is a prerequisite), we’ll learn how to create network clients and servers using the UNIX Socket API. We’ll start…
Making Your Web Apps Social with Facebook
Thinking about making your Web application talk to Facebook? Or do you need tighter integration for your website? Alternately, do you just want to do more with it than any third-party plugin can…
May 21, 2013
JKR — More efficient? Probably. More readable? Definitely not.
May 21, 2013
Prashanth Joshi — The author assumes that the first article being introductory in nature is for the beginners. So there is no question...
May 21, 2013
Peter — Hi I followed the steps but on bootup of qemu it hangs at "Stopping configure virtual network devices, waiting for...
May 20, 2013
Aseem — can u just elaborate this part "edit the output file to include only the hash value. (It should only include...
May 19, 2013
raghu ram — Hi Anil, Your articles are awesome Please give some tutorials on PCI Sound Card drivers using ALSA.
