From the monthly archives: June 2011

Space in HTML Page

By On June 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment

There’re several methods to add spaces in html web page. This blog entry is a summary of several approaches I’ve used.

1. Line Break

If you want to start a new line, you can use <br>, the line break tag. It has no end tag, and can be used anywhere within <body></body> tags.

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Serial Port Communication in Python

By On June 23, 2011 · 2 Comments

pyserial is a python module that allows one to access serial port. It’s easy to use and one can start test serial port communication in minutes.

1. Install pyserial

If your machine doesn’t have pyserial module installed, you can install the module using easy_install.

sudo easy_install pyserial

In case you don’t have easy_install [...]

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Do it Slowly, Don’t Do it Again and Do it Automatically

By On June 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Software development never ends once it’s started. Programmers are busy. We work long hours and we try to act fast.

Well, that’s the way I work most of the time, and it turns out not so efficient.

A lot of times that I am in a rush, I started to try different ideas [...]

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Linux Get udev Device Information in Python–pyudev

By On June 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment

udev is the device manager for the Linux kernel. It consists of 3 parts, libudev, the library that provides access to device information; the daemon udevd, manages the virtual file system normally mounted at /dev, running in user space; and udevadm, an utility tool for diagnostics.

This entry covers how to access the device [...]

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How to Reset USB Device in Linux–using libusb

By On June 14, 2011 · 6 Comments

This is a follow up of the previous entry How to Reset USB Device in Linux. The previous blog covers a method to reset usb device using ioctl system call. This blog gives an alternative approach to reset usb device, using libusb.

libusb is a cross-platform library giving user level application [...]

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My First Open Source Project, and More

By On June 5, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Looks like I’ve been writing a lot of entries for “Coding Beyond Technique” recently, mainly because I’m buried by company work and my master thesis project and writing these entries are a enjoyable relaxation.

I’ve released one of my Android apps – Advanced Phone Log as open source project, you can refer

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