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March 6, 2016

How to Use Webpack with React and Bootstrap

Today, I was setting up a project using Webpack, React, and Bootstrap without jQuery. What seemed like a straightforward task ended up taking more time than expected, so I've…
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December 20, 2015

How to Be a Good Consultant?

I worked as a Software Engineer for a major Australian technology firm. While I am bright, skilled, and dedicated, these qualities alone are not sufficient to make one a…
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November 14, 2015

Understanding Optionals and Exclamation Marks in Swift

Swift is a strongly-typed language, meaning all variables must have a defined type.
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November 8, 2015

Connection between .h and .m files in Objective-C

When you first open an Objective-C project in Xcode, the .h and .m files may look confusing. It's important to understand the simple connections and the hidden code behind the…
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October 16, 2015

Install Hadoop on AWS Ubuntu Instance

Step 1: Create an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS instance on AWS.
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October 10, 2015

Install MongoDB on Mac OS X

First, install Homebrew, which is the missing package management tool for OS X:
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October 10, 2015

Enable Automatic Login for OS X El Capitan

I just performed a fresh install of OS X El Capitan. I attempted to enable automatic login, but it remained locked. This was frustrating.
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October 10, 2015

Ember Inject Controller

After updating my Ember project to version 1.13.5, I received the following warning in the browser console:
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October 3, 2015

Fun Things to Do in Hanoi, Vietnam

My ambition is to travel the world, although I realize that may be a bit too ambitious.
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July 18, 2015

Batch Crop Images using ImageMagick

Today, one of the tasks I performed involved batch cropping numerous pictures. I found ImageMagick to be very useful for scaling and cropping images. Mogrify, a command within…
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June 28, 2015

Switching from Sublime Text to Atom

The Atom text editor has just released its 1.0 version. There are plenty of reasons to switch from Sublime Text. Maybe you love the concept of open source, or perhaps you're a…
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June 28, 2015

How to Upgrade Your Ghost Blog via Command Line

First, change the directory to the path where your Ghost blog is installed. For example, in my case, it's located at:
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