Has Facebook stolen your privacy? Take back the logs, take control of your data and make Facebook irrelevant. Richard Smedley explores two worlds of social networking – one good, one evil…

Drupal 7 is nearly ready for release. We’ve spent many hours previewing Drupal 7′s features – here’s everything you need to know about the latest iteration of the CMS powering websites for the White House, Sony and The Economist…

Ever wonder what it takes to design & build your hand-held device, carputer or gadget? Read this to find out how easy it is to go from being a software developer to a fully-fledged hardware developer with help from BeagleBoard and Android (among others)…

It’s time to go beyond the ‘hello world’ app. Let’s look into real-world situations and start doing big things with your Android development project…

Spring is a lovely time of year, when the flowers bloom, the birds sing and community Linux projects release the fruit of their winter labours. Specifically, the Fedora and Ubuntu projects come to the end of their six-month cycles in the April/May time frame. This year’s yield is a bumper crop, with Fedora 13 including a number of interesting technologies and improvements and Ubuntu putting on its finest polish for a Long Term Support (LTS) release…

There are many alternatives to VMware’s expensive and proprietary software. Join us as we investigate four of the most prolific tools kickstarting the revolution in open source virtualisation…

Linux is not just another operating system, but a complete stack of technologies that virtually any developer will enjoy. It doesn’t matter if he or she is coming from Windows, Mac or any other OS – there is something for everyone. This feature looks behind the scenes and finds out what really makes Linux tick as a development platform…

Enter, the Arduino: a low-cost, open source, tiny hardware board for connecting the real world to your computer, and/or to the whole internet. What can be done with it? Everything…

With the right attitude, and some tips and tricks from industry experts, you can soon turn your homegrown Android app into a nice little earner. Adrian Bridgwater explains how…

A log file grows without limits unless some action is taken. Growing log files pose many problems since larger files are very difficult to manipulate and file systems can run out of space…

Today, Python is one of the most popular programming languages in the open source space. It’s a vast language and there are many gems to discover – here are ten tips for new users to get the ball rolling…

“The fundamental purpose of the ICMP protocol is to report problems with the delivery of IP datagrams”, says networking expert Swayam Prakasha. Join him in his latest article designed to help you discover more about one of the most popular protocols in the TCP/IP suite…