One of the neat features of coding for a phone is the ability to use its motion sensors. As well as just detecting a motion event, you can also use the information from the sensor to change what you're drawing on the screen. In this tutorial, we'll look at drawing shapes on Android, and at doing a bit more with the information given by the acceleration sensor.

The Hercules project lets you run mainframe Linux on your Linux PC.

Whether you got your favorite Linux distro from a download, a purchased CD/DVD/USB, or packaged with a book or magazine, the distro you installed on your hard drive came to you in the form of an ISO image.

A clever bit of network programming by "bored in the blizzard" network engineer Ryan Werber turned a simple traceroute into a Star Wars-style scroll.