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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SVG Sequential Transforms Priority

When you want to do a series of sequential transforms on an SVG element, keep in mind that it is applied right to left. In this example, this SVG code does the translate first, then the scaling, then the rotation. <g transform="rotate(45) scale(2) translate(100, 100)"> It is counterintuitive but that is how it works.  Hopefully this solves some problems you might have on your SVG...

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Local Devfest, Software Freedom Day and Frameworks

The last 4 weeks were awesome! There were not 1 but 2 events that any local web developer was anticipating! The first one was Software Freedom Day held last September 21. The second one is the GDG(Google Developers Group) Devfest, the 1st one held in Mindanao, Philippines ever! I was also...

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CI Multilanguage Module v0.2 released

One of my ExpressionEngine projects needed to support Multilingual output for the frontend interface. Here are the feature set that I wanted I only need it to change static data and lookup table values. There is no need to translate the Control Panel. Since I already worked on Codeigniter before and ExpressionEngine is using Codeigniter as its underlying framework, I wanted an addon that...

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