On the Cutting Edge with the ESP32-S3
It’s been a while since I’ve posted – work and life have been busy! I’ve been dabbling with the new ESP32-S3 DevKitC boards from Espressif – I have the ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1-N8R2 […]
Windows
A Guide to Building Python 2.x and 3.x Extensions for Windows
I am a proponent of not rebuilding binaries when possible (thanks to Gohlke’s Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python Extension Packages site and the Python wheels), but there are many times I need to rebuild […]
Howto: Getting started with Python development in Windows with MSVS/GCC, Cython, etc.
Note: this is directed at Python 2.7 developers, but the same principles should apply to Python 3.x as well. First, a shout-out for the Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python site: as […]
Windows and the Case of the Unexpectedly Incorrect Desktop Icon
Tonight I moved my installation of Eclipse to another folder. I made sure to update the registry accordingly… this is where NirSoft’s free RegScanner utility came in handy: it’s something like […]
Building the Android emulator for Windows
Today I’ve been investigating an argument parsing bug in Android’s emulator on Windows (a bug that may affect all platforms). The version I’m seeing the bug was in the Android […]
Windows: hybrid sleep and hibernation
With the latest Windows (Vista and 7) you can select “Hybrid Sleep” as a suspend mode. In essence, it provides the fast restart of your usual sleep mode with the […]
Pinging with Python
2015-05-28 update: Some of the old repos mentioned in this article are gone. You can check out Georgi Kolev’s repo (which has been recently updated) or my older one. Jens […]
Process Output Logging in Linux and Windows
As I was updating this Wikia page, I added a section about how to create a simple logfile. I thought it’d be useful to expand upon the subject here. Sometimes […]
Adventures Building GCC 4.6.0 for Cygwin
I decided I wanted to try out GCC using Cygwin rather than my usual Ubuntu virtual machine. In the course of this adventure I learned how to build GCC 4.6.0 […]
Building ZXing for Android part 3 – Using Eclipse
Several iterations of updates below:
Building ZXing for Android part 2 – Subversion!
Well, that was fast! I decided to give Subversion a whirl with the ZXing codebase before signing off for the night… and I apparently chose well when I selected TortoiseSVN […]
Building ZXing for Android – lessons learned
Updated based on feedback from the ZXing team. Tonight I decided to try my hand again at building an Android app – this time, one that should in theory be […]