I’m happy to share the new Packt’s $5 eBook Bonanza: from December 18th, customers will be able to get any Packt eBook or Video for just $5. This promotion covers every title and customers can stock up on as many copies as they like until Jan 6th: The offer obviously includes also my eBooks 😉
With the new 7.x version of XenApp, Citrix made many changes to its infrastructure and to the way it works; hence Packt Publishing, that is the editor of my first book about XenApp, asked me for a new, updated edition: The book consists of four chapters and covers the following topics: [checklist] the new Flexcast Management Architecture (FMA): how…
FTDI are widely used in electronic devices, in particular for USB-serial adapters. In the past some blogs reported that on the market there were many counterfeit chips, that are chips labeled as FTDI but manufactured by other companies. A deep analysis shows several differences between the original and the fake chips. In the last few days on different forums (Arduino, EEVBlog, Hack’a’Day…)…
The guys at Arduino have just released an updated image for the Linux distribution running on the Arduino Yun. The image is available in the software page on the Arduino’s official website: To perform the update, you can follow the official guide or a previous post on my blog. The new features and the bug fixes have been summarized…
The M.I.T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has recently published the version 2 of App Inventor, a tool to develop Android apps. Its official website is http://appinventor.mit.edu/ App Inventor makes easy to develop – with graphical tools – both the GUI and the logic of a mobile app. I really appreciated how fast is to develop even complex applications connecting…
In a post some days ago, Olimex announced they will move to KiCad for their new boards that follow the OSHW principles (OpenSource HardWare). As many designers and hobbists, at the moment Olimex uses Eagle as their preferred EDA tool. The post summarize the main limits in Eagles’s licensing policies and why they chose KiCad among the other available…
The Arduino team yesterday released IDE version 1.5.5, available for download on the official site. Remember that this version must be considered still in beta and compulsory only to write sketches for Arduino Due or Arduino Yùn; for the other boards it is still suggested the use of the stable 1.0.x In the changelog, in addition…
Futura Group, published of the italian magazine Elettronica In, has just made available for free all the projects and articles printed on the magazine up to number 143. On the official website you can also read and download: the courses (programming with Android, Atmel microcontrollers, openPICUS…) the monographs (3d printers, DMX…)
I’m happy to share the following offer from Packt Publishing: until next monday all the eBooks (including my book 😉 ) are 50% off…
Readers would be pleased to know that I have teamed up with Packt Publishing to organize a giveaway of Citrix XenApp Performance Essentials and 3 lucky winners stand a chance to win e-copies of their new book. Keep reading to find out how you can be one of the Lucky Winners… Overview: Design a scalable…