OSMAnd Default vs Development

Since I always forget which version is which...

OsmAnd versions at the nightly download page are as follows:

• default = free version at Market 
• development = OsmAnd+ version at Market 

The download page is here.

Update: The non-default version is now called -nightly.

Adding dependent files in VS 2012

Since my Web Workbench extension is messed up, I'm having issues adding CoffeeScript (.coffee) files with their dependent .js equivalents. The solution seems to be as easy as installing an extension.
As per answers on Stack Overflow (link), VSCommands for Visual Studio 2012 (link) enables managing dependent files through GUI rather than having to manually edit the project file (.csproj) and reload the project in IDE.
The way it works with VSCommands is to select .coffee and .js files, right-click, and select "Group Items" option, then select the parent item. Neat.

Managing services in Linux

A great overview of services in Linux, Fedora 18 in particular, is available here.
A nice GUI tool for managing services is called system-config-services and is installed by the package with the same name.

Entity Framework Visualizers

EFContrib on CodePlex (link) contains links to project related to Entity Framework. Some of them are DbContext visualizers:

• Entity Visualizer (link)
• Entity Visualizers (link)

See this post on how to install a visualizer in Visual Studio.

Google Earth 7 on Fedora 18

On Fedora 18, Google Earth RPM (google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm) installation fails because it conflicts with package filesystem-3.1-2.fc18.x86_64. The reason is "/usr/bin" that is set inside the Google Earth package.
Using

rpm -U --force 

solves this problem. Then, if you get "/lib/ld-lsb.so.3: bad ELF interpreter", this means that 32-bit libraries are missing. Install them with

yum install redhat-lsb.i686 redhat-lsb-graphics.i686 redhat-lsb-printing.i686

However, after this Google Earth crashes. The issue has been reported here.

Edit: Tried with google-earth-stable-7.0.2.8415-0.x86_64. It still clashes with the filesystem package. Forcing installation succeeds but then again Google Earth crashes on start. The reported issue has been updated with the error log.

Hibernate in Fedora 18

As there is no direct link to Hibernate in current state of Fedora 18, here is a way to easily create a script that will hibernate the system:

sudo /bin/sh -c 'echo disk > /sys/power/state'

Source: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/2181/the-final-battle-between-gnome-3-and-hibernating

As if that is not enough, there is an even easier way:

pm-hibernate

This utility is a part of pm-utils package.

Ranges in HTML5

Here are some useful texts about Range and Selection objects in HTML5.

• Introduction to Ranges (link)

And relevant libraries:

• Rangy (link)

Mobile Development with HTML5

Android and HTML5 have in common the fact that they are a free and open platform. And while Android is quickly gaining more market share, I believe HTML5 applications are the way to go in the long run.
Here I will list some resources that can assist in mobile development with HTML5 and related technologies.

• PhoneGap (link) - open source framework that supports 7 mobile platforms
• Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, book (link)

For getting started with Android and PhoneGap, see this article. To get started using command-line tools, see this page.

To set up PhoneGap, you need to set up the following dependencies first:

• Java SDK
• Ant
• Android SDK

After installing Java SDK and Ant, set JAVA_HOME to paint to JDK installation directory, and ANT_HOME to Ant installation directory. Then add %JAVA_HOME%\bin  and %ANT_HOME%\bin to PATH.
To see more about setting JAVA_HOME, check this article by Oracle (link).

Data Access

As Web SQL standard has become obsolete, the data storage method to use with HTML5 applications is IndexedDb (link).

Setting up a Fedora 18 system

The instructions are here: https://sites.google.com/site/alensit/home/linux/fedora-18

Kernel Panic with VMWare Workstation 9

There is a nasty kernel panic error when running guests in VMWare Workstation 9 on Fedora 18. Here are a few links that help resolve it:

Other occurrences: here, and here.

Threads on VMWare Community: 2103048,  400616.

Patch, vmware 9, kernel 3.5: here

Another issue that appears occasionally is "can not open /dev/vmmon"
As per this suggestion, the solution is to run "sudo service vmware start"