And so, this month I will be rather busy volunteering on developing an app for the scouts. Some pointers I have picked up so far... 1) You need to pick somewhere to stop supporting. If you are supporting all versions of Android since 1.5. There is gonna be a whole lot of functionality that you ...

This command should be removed or come with confirmation message before execution. Today, I wanted to to turn my blacklist into a whitelist. Reason being as I added new services, I don't always remember to add in new rules, as a result, I was exposing quite a number of potentially sensitive ...

2 weeks after my last failure, my hands started itching again and I tried to bridge my ethernet connection to a wireless adapter running in AP mode. Some reasons which resulted in my failures in previous occasions 1) Networking on a headless server - When playing with networks, you need to work ...

Having released a couple of apps with the most successful one garnering roughly 70 installs so far, I was pleasantly surprised to receive an email from a user. He was asking for advice on how to achieve an effect through shell script. Even though it is not directly related to my app which ...

Much of client side web technology today runs directly from source, E.g. HTML/CSS/JS... , which means source code is readily available to anyone who wants it, a far cry from software where source code is often kept tightly under wraps. As such, it is very simple to just copy out chunks of code ...

Over time I have gradually accumulated quite a number of keys. I have my PGP keys for my mail encryptions, my SSH keys, multiple VPN certs and keys for various services, my android keystore keys. Currently I just chuck it into a folder, storing everything in plain text, which is fine as long as ...