May 17, 2016

DotNet: I'm back

A side project requires Asp.Net. I don’t want to go back to DotNet, though it’s a good platform, but I don’t touch Windows for 4 years, I don’t use it for 8 years. Now I cannot image work with Windows, not Mac. As an engineer, we should keep curiosity for everything, right? The more important is Windows changes a lot in recent year, more open. That’s why DotNet can work on Mac. Now let’s setup everything on Mac.

May 16, 2016

prepare-fb-interview

Most engineers may want to join Facebook. It’s better to prepare before your interview so you can have bigger chance to get offer. Also I want to let you know Google and Facebook interviews are not as difficult as you think. Don’t be scared by someone’s idea, such like “how to get google offer”. Of course you have bigger possibility to get offer if you can know everything including the much complex data structure and algorithms, like B tree, B+ tree, A* algorithm … But you must know Graph or Tree DFS/BFS.

Apr 27, 2016

typescript-for-nodejs

ts-node

Mar 21, 2016

host angularjs with s3 and cloudfront

For SPA application like AngularJS project, it’s easy to use s3 to host it. But if you want to use SSL, you have to use CloudFront for help, because S3 doesn’t support SSL directly. But there is some special issue to solve when you host AngularJS project, such as url issue for html5mode and enable SSL for CloudFront.

Mar 20, 2016

angularjs2.0

AngularJS 2.0 is coming, even is still in beta and something is still changing, but most stuff works well. It’s a good time to start to try it. In our recent demo we find its Component is very cool.

Mar 16, 2016

Interview Questions

Recent days knows a lot of interview questions, some of them are interesting.

Mar 9, 2016

Learn React.js

Finally have chance to learn React.js, because we need choose one from Angular.js 2 and React.js. To learn React.js, I find some good articles to start.

Dec 17, 2015

Toptal is funny

Toptal is a freelencer site which provides top 3% web freelencers. To join it, you have to pass their test first. There are a lot of people waiting to join it, so you have to wait for some time until some screener will come to talk and interview you. If want to get priority, you have to do something like what I’m doing right now, writing a blog about Toptal, to show you’re eager to join it, and it’s so great to join it. So everyone read this blog is moved to join it.

Nov 17, 2015

Emacs yasnippet

Emacs yasnippet provides a lot of snippets for different program language, even markdown file. Also you can add your snippets if you like. For example, when I write blog with code, I don’t want to enter “{% highlight javascript %} {% endhighlight %}” everytime, with yasnippet help, I just need enter highlight then press ‘Tab’, the highlight snippet code is generated automatically.

Nov 16, 2015

Babel Tutorial For NodeJS

Babel.js is a js compiler which translates ES6 to ES5 which is implemented by all moreden browsers. Actually babel.js should be gone when ES6 is supported by most browsers. But before that, babel.js can help us to use ES6 new features before that happens. Why do we need use ES6 features right now? Because ES6 make our life easier for javascript.