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While debugging os or application crash bug on windows ce (the tool winaddr2line isnt particularly used for windows CE application, it can be used for normal windows application too.) platform, dev

One of the most used function on a pc is switching between tasks. We may write some code in vim, switch to firefox to search for the usage of an api. And then switch back to vim continue writing code.

Though not being a open source platform, windows ce is designed to be flexible so that device venders can extend it easily. oalioctl is a feature that makes it possible to do things in kernel space on behalf of application. Features1. ExtensibilityThe

remote tools for windows ce is a set of powerful tools for debugging. I have Visual Studio 2005, Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 installed, but the remote tools don't work. They fail to connect to device with following error message:The Microsoft ActiveSync re

On android, when a process crashes in native code, the call stack of the process will be saved to a log file in /data/tombstomes/, and written to logcat as well. The information is helpful for debuggi

h.264 plugin isn't a standard part of linphone installation on ubuntu. We must manually compile and install it.1. Download msx264 plugin source code.2. Run sudo apt-get install libmediastreamer-dev libx264-dev libavcodec-dev libswscale-dev libtheora-dev

agdb is a utility aims to ease the task of debugging android native application. Its working mechanism is similar to ndk-gdb. But it's intended to assist debugging native applications in android source tree, not for application created with ndk.It does f

mplayer is a powerful utility that is helpful for examining the raw yuv file.We decoded this h.264 media file (test_avc_amr.mp4) coming with android opencore to yuv format, saved as a.yuv. The command below can display the yuv file frame by frame:mplayer

Having tried metauml as my primary design utility recently, the experience isn't as good as I expected. At the beginning, I thought I would be more focused on the content/design while using a pure textual editing tool, but the result is very frustrating. B

To help me memorize commonly used programming and debugging tools on windows and linux, I created a wiki page here:http://code.google.com/p/rxwen-blog-stuff/wiki/CommonProgrammingAndDebuggingToolsOnWinAndLinux

Port exosip to android platform isn't a difficult task because exosip doesn't rely on any special system calls that aren't available on android. It only requires osip to compile, which can also be easily ported.As an example, I created two applications to

When we make use of jni on android, it's a error-prone task to manually write the native function name for a given java native function. Though there are rules for us to follow, no one would like to memorize that. javah to the rescue.For example, for the

Android 2.3 gingerbread was officially released. A big improvement is this version is in media framework, as stated in platform highlights:Media FrameworkNew media framework fully replaces OpenCore, maintaining all previous codec/container support for enc

Decorator is a very expressive language feature in python. It helps developers to write cleaner, modular code that is easier to extend and maintain. It also helps implement AOP and decorator pattern in python.Decorator syntaxTo declare a decorator funct

The default scim input method doesn't work well with freemind on my computer, so I'd like to switch to fcitx. The fcitx package in ubuntu repository is an old version, and to install fcitx manually isn't very straightforward, so I make this post about how

I've used and enjoyed the benefits of reversion control system for several years. RCS makes my life a lot easier. And it pushes me to highly prefer text format files over binary files, because text files can be managed by RCS more easily. metauml is a m

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I was debugging memory leak bugs recently. The bug was caused by incorrect usage of the osip library. It's not uncommon that we meet problems when we rely on a library or framework that we don't fully understand. Symptom and debuggingThe symptom is our

The first version of blogporter is released. It's a utility for synchronizing posts between different blog service provider.I wrote this tool because I need to maintain two blogs. It's annoying to have to copy and paste my posts to another blog. And the m

I finally had a chance to play with kindle 3, and compared it with my nook.Pros: The greatest advantage I felt that kindle 3 is over nook is its speed. It's extremely fast to turn pages, at least twice faster than nook.The second point that kindle