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The secret of staying productive while coding
Most people use versioning systems like Subversion, Mercurial, and git to maintain their code while working on software and web projects. There are also hosted solutions like github and bitbucket providing developers with more features than a traditional version control environment. But sometimes you just want to keep your code in a safe place and…
TreeMapping
A recent school project got us excited to explore the idea of mapping the trees of city of Vancouver in a more practical way. My friends and I had a fruitful meeting today with @daeaves who has extensive information and experience in this subject. There is a tree mapping platform, OpenTreeMap, to start with. It…
Reloading Rails console without exiting
In my journey to hopefully master Ruby on Rails, I’m amazed to see that many authors (in blogs or in books) most of whom are pretty expert in the field, choose to exit the Rails console completely (using CTRL+D) when they need to restart the environment (to clear up the objects in the memory, for…
The fPhone
Back in 2007 when Facebook was becoming a global phenomena, my first impression as a user was a normal pessimism at first that left me with just an account to reserve my name and no actual use of the service. As an expatriate who lived at least 25% of my life out of my hometown…
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7 reasons to buy your laptop an external keyboard and a mouse
This is an unusual topic to be discussed in my software-oriented blog, but this morning I was staring at my wireless keyboard and I just thought how it (along with its companion mouse) made my life easier. I use a wireless keyboard and a wired mighty mouse (broken 3 wireless mice already and I can’t…