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Making Android Studio (or Eclipse ADT) work on 64-bit Ubuntu Saucy 13.10 or Trusty 14.04

Note: This is of historical interest only. Getting Android Studio (or Eclipse Android Development Tools) to run successfully on 64-bit (ie. amd64) installations of the newer Ubuntu (or underlying Debian)...

GoAniGiffy: A versatile animated GIF creator

GoAniGiffy is a small utility written in the Go Programming language to create animated GIFs from a set of alphabetically sorted image files (eg. video frames extracted as JPEGs with...

Using FuseCompress to compress folders in Ubuntu

Fusecompress is a great little legacy utility that uses the FUSE (File System in User Space) library to provide an on the fly compressed mountable filesystem that in effect lets...

FullScreenWrapper2: Python GUI framework for Android

Note: No longer under development FullScreenWapper2 is a GUI Framework for developing full screen apps using the FullScreenUI API functions provided by Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A) using Python-for-Android It...

ArdGrafix6100: Fast Arduino driver for Nokia 6100 Color LCDs

ArdGrafix6100 is a fast and full-featured graphics library for interfacing the Nokia 6100 color graphics LCD with Arduino. It uses hardware SPI & block write features of the graphics controller...

Hello World Web Servers in Python & Go

Hello World programs are the first programs typically introduced in any programming language tutorial. However, in our modern era of web applications they are not particularly insightful into the strenghts...