This is the first part of my article on writing Android apps in Scala. The application is called excusms. You can download the code and README.pdf from github. The first part in the series covers creating a Hello World application using scala. In the next part, we will build on that and add code … read more
They say that necessity is the mother of invention and we have to be thankful to Larry McVoy for making it necessary for Linus Torvalds to invent git.
Larry McVoy sells a powerful version control system called BitKeeper and many years ago provided it free of cost to certain open-source projects. Linus Torvalds and … read more
stackoverflow is the site to go to for answers to your technical questions related to programming. Actually it is getting so popular that you don’t need to visit it directly — it shows up in response to your search queries.
Before stackoverflow came on the scene you had experts-exchange which was/is less than ideal. On … read more
The number of passwords one needs to remember just keeps going up. My initial solution of storing them in an encrypted file was obviously not very convenient. I used keypass for a while. But I wanted a solution that can be used from any browser. I found lastpass and it is just the perfect solution. … read more
