This web site has been down for more than a year and I have not been putting any time to maintain it and put it back online. These days I finally spent some time to make it happen. There is a new theme, new backbone using Ghost and I am

Install Nginx and MySQL sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nginx sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql_secure_installation * https://docs.ghost.org/v1/docs/hosting#section-adding-swap-memory * https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions * https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-nginx-on-ubuntu-16-04 * https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-mysql-on-ubuntu-16-04 * https://docs.ghost.

Go to this web site: https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/platforms/android-fireos Now go to your Fire TV. Settings > About > Check For System Update

#!/bin/sh # run this to install # sudo su install-sublime-text-3.sh # modify this if you need another version or or architecture URL="http://c758482.r82.cf2.rackcdn.com/sublime_text_3_build_3083_x64.tar.bz2" SHORTCUT="[Desktop Entry] Name=Sublime Text 3 Comment=Edit text files Exec=/usr/local/sublime-text-3/

1. Open a terminal window. 2. At the input prompt you will see this structure: nicholas@computer-name:~$ _ 3. So you have to edit the hostname file: sudo nano /etc/hostname 4. When prompted, enter the administrator password and hit Enter. 5. The hostname file will open, showing the current computer

It is how you do the elastic beanstalk configurations. eb init You would be very frustrated when you can select no available solution stacks… Select a solution stack. Available solution stacks are: Select (1 to 0): It is because the credentials you use don’t have administrator rights. Go to

Unable to install Homebrew with this? ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)" What’s happening warning: Insecure world writable dir /usr/local/bin in PATH, mode 040777 ==> This script will install: /usr/local/bin/brew /usr/local/Library/... /usr/local/share/man/man1/brew.

Well, it is always good to have a refreshing layout. I spent like 2 days to tweak my website layout. It’s really awesome. Useless widgets are removed and background changed. There is even a whole new typography. I love it so much!

It’s been a while since the last post. After coming to new york, I have been very busy on my study, personal projects and (of course) playing around. studying in new york university is harsh, but not as hard as i think. I met nice people, hanged out with

What’s happening One day, when I opened up terminal as usual, it showed [Process completed] and just terminated. I could not type any thing, run any scripts and work on my project. Even worse, this made me unable to install programs into my computer because many installations need to

For both server and website developing, I usually use Xampp’s Apache to create a localhost server. However, I hate to put my important files in the htdocs inside Apache. Instead I would rather put the folder inside Documents, and make a link to htdocs. First, create a symbolic link

Actually, this website was my portfolio webpage before becoming a wordpress. It is moved to here: nicholasworkshop.com/portfolio. Using wordpress, I put the old webpage aside and always forgot to transfer the information from it to the front page. Anyway, I hope this can remind me of the projects

To capture screen in BlackBerry PlayBook, just hold the volume Up and Down buttons together. After a camera shutter sound, a screen image in the format JPG will be saved in Pictures > Camera folder.

This is a very old draft stuck at the bottom of my draft list. lol var str = "hello world"; str = str.toLowerCase().replace(/b[a-z]/g, function(letter) { return letter.toUpperCase(); }); alert(str); // displays "Hello World" Making it as a function, we can do this. function capitalize(str) { return str.

Today, I moved my nicholasworkshop.wordpress.com to my owned domain nicholasworkshop.com, integrated with my old portfolio website. Thanks to my subscribers, my blog has been having a steady viewing rate over time. However, all those traffics went to wordpress.com as the blog was hosted there. To redirect

It’s quite often for a developer to make use of the user agent to determine what browser does a user used, especially for those who develop web services and websites. Recently I found a website which has a huge database of mobile device information, including the user agent string

Caffeine has been a very useful app to instantly disable or enable the screensaver on mac. At least for me, I am using multiple computers in office and all of them except the one I am using will usually get idle. Getting into screensaver, however, is bad sometimes especially I

To begin with, we need to understand that in the HTTP protocol, browser send its identity called user agent to the server to request the wanted webpage. Every browser has its only unique user agent value, and therefore we can check that value to identify the user browser. So, first

I know it is troublesome, tedious, or just like hell. Apple has his own way to do a common task. Very often, we need to use the autocompletion in IDE to assist coding so we do not need to memorize the billions of function names. In Eclipse, everything is automatic.

While you are making a cube in unity which is transparent in gameplay, you would probably want to make it visible only in editor mode with gizmos. However, gizmos doesn’t rotate with the object transform. So you can use the following tricks to rotate the gizmos to fit your

While using hit, it is really usual to have regrets on the commits done, especially the name used. In order to change those information in your repository, open terminal (or cmd in windows), go to the folder of your git repositoy, and run the following commands. Remember, replace “old_name”

Ssh is a very convenient way to remotely command or control other devices. We use ssh to push commits to git server, to access remote server, and even to manipulate the content of our iphones and ipads. However it’s usually distributing to type your long and elusive password every

To merge 2 entirely unrelated branches or projects, we need to specify 0 as first revision in revision range. Turn on terminal (in Mac) or cmd (in Windows) and get to your project folder. Merge with the following shell script. merge -r0..-1 means to merge from revision 0 to

I have been working with Cocos2D for a while and I am still a newbie. The way to deal with animations in Cocos2D 1.0.0 – the stable version currently – is different from the way before using CCSpriteSheet. Now Cocos2D adapts animations as cache shared in the project using CCSpriteFrameCache.