HTC QuickGPS problem

On my HTC Touch Cruise, QuickGPS stopped updating the GPS ephemeris.
SH4Y’s QuickGPS Fix.CAB solved the problem.

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

…or in other words, how to rent an army of slaves on demand.
Quoting from Amazon Web Services (emphasis mine):
Amazon Mechanical Turk is a marketplace for work that requires human intelligence. The Mechanical Turk web service enables companies to programmatically access this marketplace and a diverse, on-demand workforce. Developers can leverage this service to build human [...]

Lego Mindstorm NXT self balancing robot

Lego Mindstorm NXT are a great platform for many things such as games, education etc.
In the following I will described my adventures with the standard LEGO Mindstorm NXT package + a Gyro from hitechnic and MATLAB 2007b.
The quick guide is to download the wonderful package NXTway_GS and follow the instructions there. In what follows [...]

Trac, SVN quick howto on a linux Debian

In the following, I will present a mini guide to setup Trac 0.10.3 and SVN services on a Linux Debian stable.
I needed a per project authentication both in trac and in svn.
I just finished it, seems to be working, will check it out in a few days, hope it does not burn your PC [...]

Text Analysis inside Lucene

Lucene (http://lucene.apache.org) is a well-known Informational Retrieval (IR) library, implemented in Java, which allows you to add powerful indexing and searching capabilities to your application.
Briefly, there are 2 steps in using Lucene. First, you “feed” it with text which may come from plain text files or other compound documents, such as .pdf or .doc, after [...]