Archive for September, 2011

What do Rackspace & NASA have in common?

If you have been riding on the cloud bandwagon lately, it wouldn’t be surprising to hear about OpenStack.

Building a hyperscale cloud might not have been easy in the past but lately with softwares like OpenStack they aren’t rocket science either.

Have a look…

http://www.openstack.org/

Lately a new project has spawed from no other than Dell, its called Crowbar. It makes it ever more easier to deploy the OpenStack Nova, all the way from bare metal to network boot, discover, allocate & up n running a compute node, all thanks to the build in Chef Client/Server architecture (http://www.opscode.com/chef/)

A good place to start looking at Dell Crowbar would be the lead architect Rob Hirschfeld’s blog

http://robhirschfeld.com/

All in one developer pack for Android Development

Setting up an Android development environment can be a complex and frustrating experience. NVIDIA simplifies this for all Android developers with a single installer that manages this complexity for you. Welcome Tegra Android Development Pack.

Though it says the pack is for android development on Tegra. The toolkit can be used for generic android development as-well.

Looks like its for all the lazy folks like me…

Tegra Android Development Pack (for Windows/Linux and OSX)

http://developer.nvidia.com/tegra-android-development-pack

Linux for Tegra 2

Here goes the first release for Linux for the Tegra 2 platform (a.k.a L4T). It includes a sample rootfs for Tegra based on Ubuntu 11.04

http://tegradeveloper.nvidia.com/content/linux-tegra-release-12-alpha-1-released