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Altoids: Exercises in Style

by ao2, October 23, 2013
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After my cool non-sense story about Android 5 I wanted to get back again to the Altoids theme and expand a bit on it.

Android Blue Knock-Off
Android Green Knock-Off
Android Red Knock-Off
Antonio Red Knock-Off
Arduino Knock-Off
Debian Knock-Off
Drupal Knock-Off
Ladyada Knock-Off
Linux Knock-Off
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Misc links: August 2013

by ao2, August 24, 2013
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Some interesting and inspiring things I stumbled upon this month:

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libam7xxx-0.1.4 released

by ao2, July 28, 2013
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Release 0.1.4 of libam7xxx is out, bringing a very nice performance improvement.

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Acer C110 pico projector with BeagleBone Black

by ao2, July 15, 2013
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I was having a hard time getting the Acer C110 USB pico projector work when connected to the BeagleBone Black, it wasn't showing up on the USB bus at all, no sign of it in the kernel messages and consequently no sign of it in lsusb.

Projecting the Ångström login screen
Cable setup 1
Cable setup 2
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Tweeper: a Twitter to RSS web scraper

by ao2, July 7, 2013
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Tweeper is a web scraper which extracts the most recent public tweets of a given user from their home page on Twitter.com and formats them in RSS, so the information can be conveniently accessed and collected by a feed reader.

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Misc links: April-May 2013

by ao2, May 29, 2013
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Some funteresting stuff I've run into in the past months:

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How to trace and visualize POSIX threads

by ao2, April 5, 2013
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Writing even a simple multi-threaded program is a complex problem, synchronization issues are always around the corner, causing race conditions which can lead to deadlock or resource starvation; and the stress of not being sure that our program works correctly is another component of the complexity.

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crackpop

by ao2, April 3, 2013
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Some relative of mine forgot the password to access their e-mail account, but they were still remembering the pattern they used to pick it up, and that pattern could be easily represented by a regular expression. They did not have a backup email address to be able to use the password-reset mechanism.

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libam7xxx-0.1.3 released

by ao2, March 18, 2013
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After almost one year of fixes and new functionalities here is libam7xxx-0.1.3.

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