I have encountered surprised issues when I developed Bookmark Manager 2.0. They were solved successfully after I spent a significant amount of time. To share my ideas and thought with friends, I summarized the processes and generated a list of a good practices as the following.
HTML/XHTML validation
It will always be a good practice to [...]
Jan
3
2010
3
2010
Tips for website development
Dec
23
2009
23
2009
Fix network configuration problem
The problem
I have a couple of computers with identical hardware configuration. I used one of them to install Ubuntu server to new hard drives. After I completed the preparation of all hard drives and installed the m to other machines. The problem came. Everything works fine except the network. eth0 has problem.
The solution
This solution [...]
Dec
5
2009
5
2009
Useful applications for Windows Mobile 6.1
Recently I upgraded my Verizon Wireless mobile phone to Windows Mobile Smartphone XV6800. I like it very much because I can do a lot of things on it. The most useful function of this phone is accessing WiFi hotspot. Here I’d like to summarize how I configure it to connect to my home WLAN, access [...]
Nov
30
2009
30
2009
A good website for text translation between English and Chinese
Recently there is a need to translate some English documents to Chinese. Since the documents are long and also with some unfamiliar words, I need to look up dictionary to translate the documents. It is tedious and time-consuming. One of my friends sent me a link (http://us.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=translate) that point to a online translation. After I [...]
Nov
26
2009
26
2009
Display stock charts on your own website
Plain stock chart
In searching an easy way to display stock charts on a web page hosted in a web server, two useful scripts were found on the internet:
1. Easy Yahoo stock chart ASP.NET Page
2. Displaying a daily chart for a ticker symbol
Even the scripts were written in different languages, they use a common idea that [...]
Nov
21
2009
21
2009
VirtualBox, a useful tool to experience other OS
When I search information about Google Chrome OS, I find a very useful software – VirtualBox. Although I did not get much information about Chrome OS, I was pretty happy to have the VirtualBox.
I downloaded the latest version V3.0.12 and installed it in my Windows machine. I want to try Ubuntu in the VirutalBox and [...]
Nov
19
2009
19
2009
Google voice – a nice service from Google
Google Voice is a nice service, just available recently. I sent them an invitation request through the following link several weeks ago.
https://services.google.com/fb/forms/googlevoiceinvite/
Now I got an invitation email to enroll the service. After answered several questions, my Google Voice account was open with brand new local phone number. You can visit the following page to get [...]
Nov
19
2009
19
2009
Gene network visualization
Cytoscape is an open source bioinformatics software platform for visualizing molecular interaction networks and biological pathways and integrating these networks with annotations, gene expression profiles and other state data. The following is a snapshot of the sowtware interface.
The current version of the software is v2.6.3. The core features of Cytoscape include data integration, visualization, and [...]
Nov
14
2009
14
2009
Install and config Subversion on Ubuntu server
Install SVN server on Ubuntu server
I am trying to install a subversion server on my Ubuntu server. Google search returned a lot of garbage. It was pretty hard to locate a good tutorial or how-to document to follow. At least I found one at ubuntu.org.
Subversion – This wiki document explains how to setup Subversion alias [...]
Nov
14
2009
14
2009
Add USB hard drives to Ubuntu server
I have a Ubuntu file server with limited storage space. I want to add a USB hard drive to extend its storage space. I did it in the following step.
Plug in the USB hard drive to the Ubuntu server
After I plugged the USB hard drive, the server was rebooted. Then I check the device table [...]