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…
FOSS is __FUN__: Free Your Mind
Golf, par, handicaps — and sub-classing, abstraction and lines of code. Sounds interesting? Last month, I have had the privilege of listening to two presentations on two radically different subjects. The only thing…
Storage Management using Openfiler, Part 3
The first article of this series discussed basic installation and configuration; the second described some advanced Openfiler features including bonded interfaces and RAID 1 data storage, with some important setup instructions and troubleshooting…
SYN Flooding using SCAPY and Prevention using iptables
DoS (Denial of Service) attacks against Web services make them unavailable for legitimate users, affecting the website owner’s potential business. These involve intentional consumption of network, CPU and memory resources. In this article,…
Backups and More with rsync
Learn how to use this powerful utility that almost all experts use in their day-to-day work, to perform tasks like back-ups, and much more. The rsync utility can be used cross-platform—Linux, Mac OS…
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…
Chkrootkit — Eliminate the Enemy Within
Last month, we learnt about the technical components that form rootkits. We also discussed why and how rootkits are dangerous, and briefly explored a few detection options. This article continues on the same…
Joy of Programming: Scope, Lifetime and Visibility in C
Often, programmers confuse the scope, lifetime and visibility of variables. So I’ll cover these three important concepts in this month’s column. Whenever you declare a variable, you determine its scope, lifetime and visibility….
Exploring Software: GNOME and the Semantic Desktop
Currently, this is a work in progress. So will it mature fast enough and meet user expectations? The state of the semantic desktop in the GNOME desktop environment is still very fluid. Two…
CodeSport (October 2011)
In this month’s column, let us focus our attention on some of the common compiler optimisations, and on how to write code that can be well optimised by the compiler. In last month’s…
May 22, 2013
amitsaha — Thank you for your kind comments everyone. I am glad it's been of help.
I am excited to announce my book:...
May 22, 2013
zero client — SUNDE desktop computing solutions are very much cost effective with environmental
concern. With SUNDE, your work place can turn out to...
May 22, 2013
tabsong — pretty nice
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...
