Using C++ Libraries from Python

It's been a while since my last post but here I am back with a very interesting post about Wrapping C++ libraries to be used in python.First of all we are going to create a classical client-library program. You can find all the details in my previous post: http://linuxtortures.blogspot.fr/2012/02/shared-libraries-with-eclipse.htmlOur library will contain a very simple method "getSomething()" that will return the string "something"Configure the...

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Communicating with RaspBerry via GSoap Web Services

According to wikipedia "A Web service is a method of communication between two electronic devices over the Web (Internet)." I would not say over the 'Web', indeed you can communicate within a local area network without the need on going 'Web'.On this tutorial we are going to explain step by step how to deploy a Web Service on our Rasberry. We are also going to see how to develop a little application in our laptop that will communicate with this Web...

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Cross Compiling and Cross Debugging C++ with Eclipse from Debian Squeeze x64 to Debian Squeeze ARM (Raspberry Pi)

1. IntroductionI have received yesterday my Raspberry Pi (http://www.raspberrypi.org/) unit. Fig 1. Raspberry Pi connectedAfter complete successfully the basic setup (http://www.raspberrypi.org/quick-start-guide)  and after installing the Debian Squeeze distribution provided by the community (http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads) I want to collaborate with this interesting project by writing a step by step tutorial that...

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Unit Testing with CppUnit and Eclipse

As I already mentioned in one of my previous posts, CppUnit is a powerful framework that allows us to automatize the unit testing execution.Unit testing is an extremely important activity in our daily development life, not only from a theoretical quality-related point of view but also from a practical perspective like ensuring the behavior of our code before refactoring, preventing fixed bugs to appear once again etc.The idea behind CppUnit...

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Continuous Integration with Jenkins, Mercurial and CppUnit on C++

Hello again!! Today I am going to talk about Jenkins, an open source tool that enables the continuous integration and delivery for our projects. As usual we will explain on this post how to set up a basic configuration and have the tool working into a local environment, if you are looking for a more complex configuration you can download here for free the book 'Jenkins the definitive guide'.Basically what we are following with the continuous integration...

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