IBM has published the following technical articles, tutorials, and downloads on its developerWorks Website. They cover a range of interesting (though not necessarily embedded) technical topics. Some require free registration. Enjoy . . .

• Build a WAP gateway On Linux — The hottest technology for implementing mobile services is the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). This article discusses the advantages of working with the open source gateway for WAP, which performs the protocol conversion between a Web server and a mobile phone.
• Get Up And Running On Linux Quickly — The growing momentum behind Linux adoption is thrilling for ISVs, customers, and Business Partners who are seriously considering Linux. This technical briefing is intended to help speed your development of Linux based applications. It covers Linux growth in the industry, open source and open standards, reliability, security in a Linux environment, and the affordability of Linux-based applications. Upcoming Linux briefings include Austin, TX (June 8) and Dallas, TX (June 10). Visit the site to register and find a briefing in your area.
• Build installation packages — This tutorial is for developers looking for a better way to package and install their software. Solution installation and deployment technologies provide a common technology across supported platforms to reduce required human intervention at installation and to automate package removal (uninstallation). A minimalist package is created that installs a single file.
• An inside look at the Gaming industry — “Twenty years ago, when I wrote computer games for a living, the industry was pretty straightforward. I wrote games, the company packaged them (well before the advent of CD-ROMs and CD-ROM drives for PCs, games were distributed on cassettes — can you believe it?) and sold them. My employer made good money, I made more money than a college student could make most other legal ways, and I got to play all the computer and arcade games I wanted. Life in the game industry was good! But I got bored, joined Real Business, and started working with Enterprise Applications. The years flew by and here I am again, working with the game industry.” This article gives you an inside look at how the online Gaming industry works today and how to setup an online game as a business.
• Harry Potter sorcery done with Linux eServer — A small London-based company The Moving Picture Company (MPC) has partnered with IBM, for their Digital content creation solution, using xSeries systems running Red Hat Linux, to cast a spell on moviegoers across the world with digital imagery created in tiny spaces a fraction of the size of the enormous picture production studios used in Hollywood. The company is using IBM eServers in a state-of-the-art digital lab, bringing the worlds of J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter), Homer (“Troy”) and Lara Croft's (“Tomb Raider”) to life.
• Bring the power of 2D imaging to your Eclipse plug-ins — Most Java developers agree that there's only one domain where Swing/AWT is superior to the Eclipse platform's Standard Widget Toolkit, and that's Java 2D. Until now there has been no easy way to integrate the time-saving features of Java 2D with the superior portability, functionality, and performance of SWT's user interface components, but that's all about to change. Java developer and Eclipse enthusiast Yannick Saillet shows you how easy it can be to paint Java 2D images on your SWT components and Draw2D figures.
• What You Need to Know When Developing a Grid App — Get up-to-speed on the latest in Grid Computing application development. 1) Global Grid Forum; 2) Open standards architecture; 3) GGF and grid data; 4) Modeling and Managing State; 5) GGF Security.
• Build a grid with Perl, Part 5: Client development — Grids appear from the outside to be complicated beasts that require complex configuration and applications to make them work effectively. In fact, they can be built fairly easily and with relatively simple tools. In this final part of a five-part series on the development of a grid system in Perl, we'll look at the role and functionality required by a storage node within a resource grid.
• Grid App Enablement: Strategy 5: Parallel Service — This article, Part 4 and last in the series, describes the fifth of six strategies for grid application enablement. At this level a program becomes multiple instances of a service subroutine callable in parallel by a client through some grid middleware. The article explains characteristics of applications at this level, as well as what the program developer must, should, and can optionally do to achieve and exploit this level. A major objective is to have the application as middleware agnostic as possible.

 
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