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Programming Android Motion Sensors

One of the really neat features of coding for a portable platform like a phone is that you can use its motion sensors to control the UI. How useful this is in a particular app varies from "neat gimmick" to "UI perfection" -- admittedly the example here is more on the "gimmick" end of the spectrum, but it'll get you started with using the Android motion sensors. We'll carry on using the code from the previous three tutorials, but this time, we're going to add a detector which enables you to start the timer by shaking the phone.

Apple patch blocking Java hits Associated Press where it hurts

I received this e-mail from the AP this morning -- Dear Users: Please be advised AP has been effected by the automated system patch released by Apple this morning, blocking java based applications on mac computers. This may slow down the publishing of some AP photos. AP Engineers are working on a solution.

Open Developer Break: Node.js, RHEL dev tools, Apache updates

Open Developer Break catches up with miscellaneous news from the open development world. This week: a new Node.js version, Red Hat's Developer Toolset, a new CyanogenMod bug tracker and a collection of Apache releases

Can Microsoft or BlackBerry Break the iOS/Android Developer Stranglehold?

Microsoft and BlackBerry face a a paradox. They can't really attract developers in large numbers away from iOS and Android without a critical mass of phones -- and phone buyers tend to stay away from phones without a vibrant app store. It's a stalemate that's going to be tough to break.

JCache will not make Java EE 7

With the release date for the next enterprise Java version approaching and a number of deadlines missed, JSR107, the Java caching standard will now not make it into Java EE 7

Etherpad 1.2.7 fixes vulnerability that crashes servers

The developers of Etherpad have released an update that fixes a security issue with the open source collaborative notepad application that could cause the server to be crashed by a malformed client message

Linux Professional Institute Certification Exams Exceed 350,000 Worldwide

  • Linux Professional Institute; By Scott Lamberton (Posted by scottl on Feb 1, 2013 8:52 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Press Release; Groups: LPI
(Sacramento, CA, USA: January 31, 2013) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced that in 2012 the organization surpassed two significant milestones: delivering over 350,000 exams and 120,000 certifications worldwide since the organization's inception.

Aeon Command: Yet Another New Game For Linux

Aeon Command is a space war strategy game that's now been released for Linux...

With E17 Out, Enlightenment E18 Is In Development

The first point release of the Enlightenment E17 desktop was released today. In addition, an early development snapshot of E18 was released too...

Last.fm Desktop Scrobbler Released!

We at Last.fm love Linux. Not only does it power almost all of the server machines that bring Last.fm to you, it is also the operating system of choice of many of our developers at Last.HQ. For our desktop application Last.fm Scrobbler, Linux is a first class supported operating system.

CES tells CNET: You’re fired!

At the 2013 CES convention, CNET's editorial staff loved the Dish Hopper DVR and nominated it "Best in Show." That journalistic decision was quickly tossed out, however, by the legal department at CBS, CNET's corporate parent. CBS is involved in litigation against Dish over the Hopper.

Microsoft: Old Internet Explorer is terrible and 'we want to help'

New tools help web devs find problem spots As every web developer knows, one of the biggest headaches of building modern, standards-compliant web pages is getting them to look and work right in Internet Explorer. Well, coders, apparently Microsoft feels your pain, because it has released a new set of free tools to help you do just that.…

GNOME outreach programme attracts 25 women

  • iTWire; By Sam Varghese (Posted by linuxwriter on Feb 1, 2013 5:36 AM EDT)
  • Groups: GNOME
Twenty-five women have been accepted for participation in the GNOME-led Outreach Programme for Women which runs from January 2 to April 2, according to a media release from the GNOME Foundation.

QtWeb: Not Quite Ready For Full Time Browsing

  • FOSS Force; By Chris Hall (Posted by brideoflinux on Feb 1, 2013 5:03 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
I installed it both on my Windows box and on my laptop running Bodhi. The Windows install was typical, using a Windows Installer. The Linux install was about as easy a Linux install as I’ve ever seen. In Linux, the browser is one file. Save it to the hard drive and either open it through a terminal or set up a link to launch it from the menu.

Scientific Visualization with NCL

Many of my previous articles have looked at software packages that do scientific calculations and generate scientific results. But, columns of numbers are nearly impossible to make sense of—at least, by regular human beings. So what can you do? The answer is visualization.

5 Ubuntu-based alternatives worth checking out

Ubuntu is an open source Linux distribution based on Debian Linux which has, in turn, been surpassed in popularity by its own fork: Linux MInt (according to DistroWatch). LInux Mint is just one of many Ubuntu-based alternative distributions that the diverse Linux community has put together to offer up new features, customized user interfaces, built-in applications, and/or tweaks to the OS to enable the pursuit of scientific knowledge.

9 of the Best Free Prolog Books

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Feb 1, 2013 3:11 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews, Roundups
Prolog is generally regarded as a difficult language to get to grips with. The focus of this article is to select some of the finest Prolog books which help programmers master this language, and develop an in-depth understanding of recursion, constraint logic programming, and searching problem trees. All of the books are available to download for free.

Protection against Samsung UEFI bug merged into Linux kernel

On Thursday morning, Linus Torvalds merged two changes into the main Linux development tree which mean that the samsung-laptop kernel driver will no longer be activated when Linux is booted via UEFI (1, 2). This should resolve the problem of some Samsung laptops being irreparably damaged when Linux is booted using UEFI. The does not, however, mean that the danger is past, as there appear to be other ways in which the sensitive firmware can be disrupted.

Rubygems site recovers from compromise

The volunteers that run the Rubygems.org repository of components for Ruby applications are checking those components to ensure they haven't been tampered with after the platform was compromised. Attackers uploaded a gem to the site which had a metadata file that used the Rails YAML flaws to copy initialisation and configuration information to the Pastie clippings site.

Ubuntu Smart Scopes

  • theopensourcerer.com; By Alan Bell (Posted by r_a_trip on Feb 1, 2013 1:33 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Ubuntu
In short, Canonical will be running a server much like the existing products.ubuntu.com server which will accept queries and return a bunch of results as json. The current implementation searches Amazon and the Ubuntu One music store and a few other places. The new one will do the same, plus more server-side searches, plus a new feature altogether which is a list of good scope names for the client to search. Your client will now send a list of all locally installed scopes to the server (actually a list of scopes you have added and a list of scopes you have removed or turned off from the standard set) along with your query. The server then returns results it found and wants to put in your dash, plus a subset of the local scopes you sent it, in order, that the server thinks would be good places to hunt for your search term.

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