TIL Software Series

I am starting a new series today where I will post some everyday tips that I find useful in my course of work. These tips are short and are helpful to my personal workflow. I hope that you could also find some use of these tips. So to start, here are two of them. Matplotlib in Python Last Saturday, I tried working with Pandas and Matplotlib for our company hackathon. Unfortunately, I found out...

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How to run another instance of Skype in Mac OSX

My workplace recently mandated a company wide Skype policy that requires me to create a new Skype account. As I was using my personal account before, this raised a problem. I want to be logged in to both my personal and work accounts at the same time. I searched around for ways to this problem. I found a solution that allows me to run a second instance using the command line. To do it, just run this...

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Cagayan de Oro Google I/O Extended 2016

Before the event "I wonder what they will show today?". That was the question that keep popping in  my head when I entered MUST. I went up until the 6th floor of the Performing Arts Theater until I realized that I got lost. After asking some of the students there, I found the right room across...

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Change global npm install modules destination

There are many ways to change the installation destination of your global npm modules. IMO, using a user config file is the cleanest way to do this. If you want to do it this way, just follow this 2 steps. Create ~/.npmrc file if you don't have one.  Add this line to your npmrc fileprefix={Folder Name}For example, if you want to do global npm installs in ~/.npm-global, then add this lineprefix=~/.npm-global Viola!...

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