Monthly Archives: March 2012
Art of Illusion: Creating Digital Art the Easy Way, Part 1
Want to create great looking digital art? You don't need to buy expensive hardware and software like Maya or Photoshop. The Art of Illusion...
Draw Great Graphs with Open Flash Charts, Part 2
In the first part of this series, I gave a brief introduction to Open Flash Charts (OFC) and discussed how to draw bar charts...
PiCloud — An Easy Way To the Cloud
This article provides an introduction to PiCloud, a cloud computing solution.
There are three components to PiCloud:
PiCloud refers to the cloud computing infrastructure provided by...
FOSS in Academic Institutions
In recent years, we have seen open source being widely adapted by many organisations around the world -- not only because of its cost-effectiveness,...
Programming Tools for Linux
This article is not so much about the various languages, as the programming tools that can be used to write programs using the languages.
When...
Building Image Processing Embedded Systems using Python, Part 3
The third and final part of this series shows you how to use the pySerial module, Arduino, and finally, how to combine everything...
Lisp: Tears of Joy, Part 10
Lisp has been hailed as the world's most powerful programming language. But only the top percentile of programmers use it, because of its cryptic...
Guard Your Network with IPCop, Part 4: Configuring OpenVPN with Zerina Add-on
The first article in this series discussed the basic installation and configuration of IPCop 1.4.21. Subsequent articles discussed five important add-ons used to enhance...
M.Sc. in FOSS from Anna University: AU-KBC’s C. N. Krishnan Throws Some Light
The real bottleneck in the growth of FOSS in India is inadequate and commercially sustainable deployment with 'real world users'...
Under Anna University's new two-year...
Sabayon 8 Serves a Multitasking-optimised GNOME 3
Last time I tried Sabayon was when version 5 came out. It's been a few years since, and I don't exactly remember what it...
