The Danger of Interruptions The worst problem is of course the fact that according to a research, interruptions drop a person’s IQ up to 10 points which is 4 points more than smoking marijuana 1, concerning indeed. The paper also further explained that in order to return to the fully... View Article
A few days ago I had a request to build a word counter for a website. One of the condition is that the words included in the count have to be unique. I couldn’t find any software or browser plugins that can do this straight away, so I decided to... View Article
Keyboard and mouse the two most ubiquitous computing equipment that we always take for granted. Lately I’ve been paying attention at them again, courtesy of some conversation with my colleagues. I think the last time I really choose the type and brands of my keyboard and mouse was during my... View Article
One of the more common mistakes that web developers made is the scoping of “this”. This would be one of the criteria of understanding that most testers would look at when hiring new developers. This short post will show a simple code snippet showing how to keep the scoping of... View Article
I think getting kids to play PC games are on of the best education tools (keeping in mind the age ratings of course). Note that I’m talking about PC not the general console games as they are pretty much plug and play. The idea is to get them curious with... View Article
Sometimes you need to run a command in the terminal as another user in the system. I forgot the way to do this all the time, so here’s a little code snippets on how to do so. sudo su -s /bin/sh <insert user here> -c "CMD HERE" Tweet Vote on... View Article
If you are like me, requiring to open the Linux terminal every now and then in order to do test some of your codes. Then this tool, will be useful. Guake Terminal. The name comes from the game Quake. Remember the good ol’ days when we press tilde in-game and... View Article
I use Ubuntu pretty much for everything at work with dual monitor configuration. The one gripe that I had was notifications appearing on the far top right hand side of my secondary monitor (on the right…), this caused missing the notifications. Also I hated the colours of the bubble. To... View Article