Archive for the ‘computer programming’ Category

Hacking Android fun

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

This holiday weekend, I’m spending my time just hacking Google’s Android. I’m writing a location-based todo list (yes, a unique idea, I know). The purpose of the exercise is to learn how to write Android code in Eclipse.
So far, it is a fun experience. I’m only one day into a three-day personal hackathon […]

symfony and Open Flash Charts

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

I’ve been playing with symfony for a project I’m working on called Intelligence Exchange. So far, it’s been pretty cool, even if the learning curve is a bit steep.
As a sub-project, I want to write a cool-looking dashboard to monitor database activity. After looking around a while, I stumbled upon OpenFlashCharts. It […]

Hacking the Android

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Well, I finally got to play with Google’s Android this weekend. I “installed” a version of it on a Nokia n810. I say “installed” because the procedure was simply (?!) flashing a new kernel and running a script from the micro-SD card. I’ve got to look into the code some more, build a […]

Integration, Integration, Integration

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Reuven Lerner has a good post over on OStatic about how Open Source’s strength is in integrating with other systems, even legacy and proprietary system.
Of course, integrating Open Source with other Open Source apps is easiest, IMO, even if the documentation isn’t the best.  In my experience, the documentation for Open Source is usually better […]

git at ABE-PM

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Last night’s ABE Perl Mongers’ meeting was fun; rjbs set up git on a virtual machine on his Macbook and we hacked an IRC game he has been working on. The purpose of the meeting wasn’t to hack the game (which was fun and reading rjbs’ code is usually enlightening) but to show off git. […]

“Netcraft confirms C/C++ is dead…”

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

No, not really, but this thread got me wondering “what tradeoffs do you make when considering which language to choose”? (Yes, some of us treat languages like tools and switch between them when appropriate.)
I’ve got a potential project which is traditionally done in C++, notionally for the speed advantages of C++ over other languages. But […]

Automating The Trade Report Process

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

I really like automating processes and Open Source software is great for that. Here is one such incident.
Background: when you are managing other peoples’ stock portfolios, you don’t just login to E*Trade as them and buy/sell stocks. You trade the stocks through a trading system (like E*Trade but there are many others), the trading […]

 


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