Category Archives: Hacking

Laptop buying advice for web and mobile hackers

There is a post on the 37Signals blog saying how the choice of operating system doesn’t matter much for a hacker. Unless you have another machine for you, I don’t agree to this. I am currently developing on Linux and looking to switch to a Mac. Linux is a great environment to hack but the …

January 11, 2012 – 12:46 am | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Hacking | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Installing Android SDK on Ubuntu 11.10

The first step in installing the Android SDK is installing the Sun (Oracle) JDK. Java 7 is out now, but I will stick with the recommended Java 6. Sun JDK is not available in the Ubuntu repositories, so you need to install it using this method. Open Ubuntu Software Center, using the Super (Windows) Key …

December 16, 2011 – 3:07 am | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Hacking | Tagged , , | Comments (8)

Patents and CS

Google is bidding $900 million for the patent portfolio of Nortel in the company’s bankruptcy auction. On its official blog, Google says The tech world has recently seen an explosion in patent litigation, often involving low-quality software patents, which threatens to stifle innovation. Some of these lawsuits have been filed by people or companies that …

April 5, 2011 – 2:45 am | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Hacking | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Moving Ahead from Turbo C

Ankur Sethi has done a brilliant blog post on the differences between compiler, C++, Turbo C, IDE (and if you are sane enough to be interested) GCC and Dev C++. Ankur has explained all of it very clearly, so I won’t reinvent the wheel. I strongly recommend that you go through his post. A couple …

April 25, 2009 – 10:13 pm | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Hacking | Tagged , , | Comments (5)