Recently, I started looking into Android development. What I found was that it was very easy to do Android application development and best of all, it is free (unlike Apple’s $99/year development fee). All you need is a computer, your Android phone, and a USB cable to connect the two.…
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I upgraded to the latest Xcode 4 and had a tough time using it as things have changed quite a bit. (I’m not too familiar with Xcode 3 either so that didn’t help.) I also needed to make and include a static library (Live555) for the iPhone application that I…
16 CommentsWhen you’re working in a small engineering team, one of the best tools for collaboration is a wiki. After looking at TikiWiki, MediaWiki, and TWiki, I decided to use TWiki. TWiki had the most sophisticated syntax for formatting a page. TWiki’s syntax trumped the downsides of using Perl and files,…
Leave a CommentSome developers needed Java JSP and Servlet support added to our LAMP development server on OpenSUSE 11.3. To do so, we decided to use Tomcat. Follow the instructions below to install Tomcat and the Apache JK Module to integrate Apache with Tomcat. Install Tomcat 6 As root user, run YaST…
Leave a CommentRecently, I had to setup a small development server for a team of 4-5 developers. The server needed to be accessible from the Internet and thus, needed to be secured. The server would use only free software. The server needed to provide the following development services: MySQL, Apache HTTP/HTTPS, PHP,…
Leave a CommentRecently, my much beloved Motorola Razr V9M die (the display went black) and my friend gave me a Blackberry Pearl 8130 as a replacement. The Pearl is just a little bit larger than my Razr, which is great because I am most concerned with the size. (The latest available phones…
Leave a CommentI was asked by a friend to jailbreak his new iPad. The iPad had iOS 3.2.2 on it and my friend did not want to upgrade to the latest 4.1 version because he had heard there were issues when jailbreaking with the newest version. After some research, I found that…
Leave a CommentYou’re living more of your life and doing more of your business on the Internet. You’re paying bills with online banking, checking your credit cards on the web, and shopping at several dotcom stores. Every one of those sites may require you to have an account with a username and…
Leave a CommentA friend had a jailbroken and unlocked iPhone 3G with his T-Mobile service. He had paid someone to upgrade the iOS to the latest 4.0.2. Unfortunately, the hardware on his iPhone 3G was incapable of running iOS 4.0.2 efficiently and would freeze every minute for several seconds. In his words,…
Leave a CommentIf you are running Windows XP on older hardware, you might wish to make some of the following adjustments. The optimizations below were gathered over the past decade. These modifications range from simple to dangerous, so proceed at your risk. (Some of these optimizations may be outdated.) These changes are…
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