Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy) comes with PHP 5.5.3 and does not enable mcrypt by default. I am currently working on a personal project that requires to use mcrypt to encrypt and decrypt data. So I will need to enable it manually. To enable mcrypt is easy, simply following the steps below: …
I have just found out when you disable third party cookie in Chrome settings, the third party flash cookies will also be disabled. This applies when you are using Chrome’s native flash player, but the third party flash cookie will still be avaiable if you are using Adobe’s flash player …
When working with Hive, there are lots of scenarios that we need to move data from one cluster to another. For instance, sometimes we need to copy some production data into alpha/dev environment for testing purpose. Luckily that Hive provides two easy commands for us to do it. Since version …
It is very common these days to allow your web page to respond to your website users using key shortcuts. Recently I was working on a project to display an overlay on top of a page (lightbox style), and the third party that I used is called iBox. It worked …
When you want to turn all elements in an array from strings to integers, it comes to common sense that you want to use the Array.prototype.map function with Javascript’s built-in function parseInt: However, this will give you unexpected output of: Why? Well, this is …
My new Snowflake Blog is now live. I will not be updating this blog anymore but will continue with new contents in the Snowflake world!