Easy Inventory – Now Open Source on Sourceforge!

 Android Apps, News, Personal, Programs  2 Responses »
Oct 142011
 

Yep that’s right. I’ve had a few requests to open source Easy Inventory (the first Android app I ever wrote) since I released it back at the beginning of June. As I’ve been insanely busy at my new job (converting iPad apps to Android apps), I’ve not had much time for feature improvements or bug fixes. Seeing how Easy Inventory is currently making me about 3 bucks a month in Adsense revenue, I see no financial harm in converting it to an open source project. It also jives rather well with my socialist tendencies. Plus it’s been a while since I threw a project up on SourceForge, and I’d like to see what folks can come up with.

You can download or checkout the source for the project from https://sourceforge.net/p/easyinventory

If you’d like source code write access to the project (please do contribute :) ), just request it and it shall be granted by a project administrator (currently only me but hopefully more in the future)

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rexVM – A virtualBox Appliance for Developing for The REX 6000

 Hacking, News, Personal, Programs  13 Responses »
Aug 232010
 

As most of you readers probably know, I have been terribly remiss in my postings of late. That isn’t to say that I haven’t been hacking. Oh no. Bootstrapping a startup requires hacking all over the place. During the past week alone I’ve

  1. Gotten to know my franchise tax agent on a first name basis
  2. Authored contracts, which in my opinion should be written in python
  3. Authored a research paper on novel methods for efficient bulk virtual machine storage and retrieval (stay tuned for that one!)
  4. Reminded myself daily why I use git, while writing features integrating svn, cvs, etc
  5. Created what, I am fairly sure, is the world’s largest openWRT/BCM5354 firmware image/executable set
  6. Created at least 10 new project virtual machines

Which actually brings me out of my /startup header and back into :/publish . One of the terrific things about founding a startup (ducks!) is the flexibility you get while setting up your workflow. Long a proponent of integrating virtual machines into business processes, I have been enjoying the real freedom a robust virtualized system can provide. I’ll get into the detailed workflow later in the post. For those ‘first page only’ readers I’ll get to the golden ticket, I recently picked up a REX 6000 credit card PDA for 6$ at the local thrift.

REX 6000

Read on for (much) more and download links!

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