In this post, I will outline the steps necessary to compile the VLC Player for Android devices. As a pre-requisite, please see my post about installing Eclipse Indigo for Android Development on Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Prepare Your System for VLC Compilation: Download the latest Apple Xcode development tool…
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I decided to install the latest version of Eclipse, Indigo, and configure it to do Android application development. My specific final target is to build the VLC Player for Android. Below are my notes for installing such an Eclipse configuration for Android development on a clean Mac OS X Snow…
1 CommentI recently bought an iMac for my sister. While setting it up, the Software Update would keep aborting due to network disconnects. While testing, I noticed my wireless G connection would start off fast, then drastically slow down, then pause for a minute, disconnect/reconnect, and finally just unable to connect.…
Leave a CommentI was asked for help to transfer a cassette tape to an audio CD. I found a great webpage, How to transfer a tape to a CD using Audacity, which provided most of the info. (Audacity is a free audio editing program.) The basic idea is to record from cassette…
1 CommentWe decided to migrate from a virtual OpenSuSE Linux server running on my desktop to a dedicated server hosting company. Unfortunately, I missed the OpenSuSE selection as an operating system choice and ended up choosing Ubuntu 64bit. Below are the initial steps I took to setup our development environment on…
Leave a CommentRecently, I had to setup a LAMP environment on a temporary CentOS 5.6 Linux server. (CentOS is the open source equivalent to the Red Hat Linux operating system.) Pleasantly, using Yum (Yellow dog Update, Modified), which is the CentOS and Red Hat RPM package manager, makes the task super simple.…
1 CommentRecently, 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.…
39 CommentsI 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…
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