Synfig Animation

I learned to do cut out animations in Synfig. I am all set to make animations using Synfig.   I will finally make the series – The Sandman Chronicles. The idea is simple just like any Indian movie the main story remains the same – the trick is the come …

MIT OCW Project

This is a long pending “to do item” of mine.  Having a blog is a good way to keep notes of what i have learned. I plan to read each and every computer science graduate course from MIT and write notes about what I have understood. May be even about …

India’s contribution to Open Source

I myself being an Indian developer is ashamed to say that not many of us write open source software  ( myself included  ) .  To  be brutally honest with myself and rest of you, I think I lack personal focus,  I am trying my best to fight with it and …

AsciiDoc

I came to know about ascii doc recently , just edit your document in plain text files and publish it to multiple formats . Since ascii is plain text file , you can even use a normal text editor store it and the document remains largely readable 🙂 .   Ascii …

Android Programming Notes

Basic Application elements    Views  – TextBox etc ,    GroupViews – LinerLayout etc    Activity   – Main Screen and other screens   Intent  – Communication mechanism between Activities Android Activity Life Cycle ( Names are kind of self explanatory ! )  OnCreate  OnStart OnResume OnPause OnPause OnStop OnDestroy findViewById(R.id.response)  …

Android device not regonized ?

Borrowed from Stackoverflow . Keeping it here for my ready reference http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7594975/why-is-eclipse-and-adb-not-recognizing-my-android-device First, check the kind of quotes you are using in your udev rules. It looks like you might be using non-ASCII double quotes. See the difference between the quotes around usb and usb_device, etc. UBSYSTEM==”usb”, SYSFS{idVendor}==”1bbb”, MODE=”0666″ SUBSYSTEM==”usb_device”, …

Confession

Hey , my blog may contain lot of errors , i do not think many people ready my blog . I am therefore posting these as notes to myself , but  if someone did bump into my blog , I still hope that they find this garbage useful !. Please …

Embedded Linux Development

Although having no real world experience in embedded Linux development, I was deeply interested about the subject. I therefore read many books on the subject and the sad part is there is nothing that cannot be found online. I basically wasted money on the book, I therefore present summary of …