I’ve always known that virtualizing things can make management of all types of resources easier. Recently, I had the most pleasant experience adding disk space to a virtual machine. Of course, if you use LVM, this can happen just as easily with real physical disks, but for me, I was able to do [...]

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After playing around with the Cypress FX2 and SDCC for the past while, I’ve developed a library of utilities that make some of the common tasks for writing firmware and performing certain functions a little easier. I’m lucky to work for a company that approves of the open source initiative and believes that it [...]

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I’ve had the enjoyable experience of playing around with the Cy7c68013a chip on the Ez-Usb development board for the past few weeks. I thought I’d post a few tips for developing in this type of environment with open source software.

Convert to Linux
The tools that Cypress provides with the development kit are Windows based. [...]

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For my last post, I played around with C++ and a little programming competition. While on the topic, I decided I’d get slightly more serious and enter the next challenge.
One of the things that slightly annoyed me during the process is having to compile/run the program on Windows to enter the competion, while I’m [...]

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It’s been some time since Python 2.5 became stable and released. Version 2.5 has plenty of new features that have helped me in deciding that it was time to go ahead and start using it for primary development of all my new projects. One of the reasons I was still using version [...]

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A while back, I found myself running out of hardware and wanting to host more sites than I currently was. In addition, I wanted to create a little bit more redundancy for some of the services I host.
At the time, I was hosting a number of services with Xen. One physical server hosted [...]

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