Linux Journal Contents #142, February 2006

Features

• MSP430 Development with Linux  by Brian C. Lane
  Blinking LEDs can be fun an instructive for using a nifty TI processor.
  
• Shell Scripting a Camera Server  by Erik Inge Bolso
  A few contortions are needed but you can still shell script a surveillance system.
  
• Getting Started with Qtopia  by Lorn Potter
  Want to write an application for the increasingly popular PDA platform?
  
• Building a Home Automation and Security System with Python  by Fred Stelter
  Want to use Python and cheap hardware to feel more secure about your home?
  
• Embedding the db4o Object-Oriented Database  by Rick Grehan
  How to get this single-library powerful database into your embedded system.
  

Indepth

• Thin Clients Pay More  by Stephen Sefton
  Thin is always in and cost effective too.
  
• Heterogeneous Processing: a Strategy for Augmenting Moore's Law  by Amar Shan
  What do you do when you can no longer enforce Moore's law?
  
• Embedding Python in Your C Programs  by William Nagel
  Ever wonder how to put Python on a C food diet?
  
• Three Case Studies in Community-Oriented, Open-Source Software Development  by Randall P. Embry
  What does a PDA, video capture card and multimedia appliance have in common?
  

Toolbox

• At the Forge   Assessing Ruby on Rails  by Reuven M. Lerner
  
• Cooking with Linux   Little Bitty Applications  by Marcel Gagné
  
• Paranoid Penguin   Single Sign-On and the Corporate Directory, Part III  by Ti Leggett
  

Columns

• Work the Shell   Conditional Statements and Flow Control  by Dave Taylor
  
• Linux for Suits   A First Look at the Nokia 770  by Doc Searls
  
• /etc/rant   Skim Cream not Scum  by Nicholas Petreley
  

Review

• Fat Man and Little Boy  by James Turner
  

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