Saturday, July 9, 2016

DockerCon 2016

This week I attended the monthly Docker Atlanta meetup (http://www.meetup.com/Docker-Atlanta/) where they did a DockerCon 2016 recap.  Excellent material.

Here are a couple of demonstrations that REALLY have me excited:

https://blog.docker.com/2016/07/live-debugging-docker/


https://blog.docker.com/2016/06/dockercon-video-mobys-cool-hacks/
(section: In-the-air update of a drone with Docker and Resin.io)

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Getting familiar with Android

So, I've spent the past few days reconciling posts, blogs, tutorials and 'documents' to get the AOSP to compile. I've finally pulled together a set of instructions (a script actually) to get my Ubuntu 10.4 environment Android ready.

My first mistake was trying to compile the simulator as a target. While this did lead me down the path of figuring out which packages were needed for the 'generic' target it also led me to compilation errors. Apparently the majority of the community has abandoned the simulator and therefore its code can be (and is often) outdated and broken. To quote the poster "state of broken or severely broken".

After figuring this out I realized that the 'generic' build on the emulator would at least get me to something that would run. After toying around with several Ubuntu environments (9.10, 32 bit, 64 bit) I decided to write some scripts to make my life much easier (and to share with you!)

The script of most usefulness is the setup_android_environ.sh. You can find it here under my scripts repository. I also created a helpful script to change the default version of the gcc compiler (since Android needed 4.3).

Now that I've gotten the platform to compile now I'm working on the Android kernel.