Upgrading The White Macbook 2010 SSD+HDD dual drive & 16 GB RAM

I got a used macbook 2010 white model 7.1 recently. I want to upgrade the RAM and SSD myself. Why not just buy a new one? Because this inspires me:

Learning Data Structures with mycodeschool

Having a solid understanding of data structures is on top of my todo list. I’ve looked on Coursera and other resources such as blogs and stackoverflow, but I find them either not comprehensive enough or at the other end of the spectrum, too dense with…

Drupal 7.31 Installation on XAMPP

This is my quick setup for Drupal 7.31using XAMPP on Mac OS 10.9.5.
I assume XAMMP is already installed for configured on your computer.

1. Go to Drupal.org and install the file. I got the…

Making My Own Tamagotchi Game on Ruby

Info:

This week, I am learning about Class and OOP in Ruby. 
I will make a small tamagotchi game as personal practice. 
My goal is to create a “Queer Tamagotchi Interactive Game” that questions the user’s own identity and personal
beliefs…

Array#pad Method with Ruby.

Prompt:

Implement Array#pad and Array#pad!.

Each method accepts a minimum size (non-negative integer) and

an optional pad value as arguments.

Atoi Implementation in Ruby

Prompt: Implement your own string to number conversion function. Do not use the following: send, eval, to_i, to_f, Integer(str), Float(str), or any similar method to convert your strings to numbers in your RPN evaluator.

Genie in the LAMP Stack

I’m about in a month of work mark at Radical Designs. Work has been slow due to the holidays. Today I learned a nifty linux commands: ** scp** for copying from another server to my local machine. The format is as follow:

 scp nameofserver:filename path/to/file destination

 ex: scp…

So chucK-ing Good!

I’ve been experimenting with chucK, a programming language for musicians. The heart of chucK is time. This is helps me understand more about concurrency, or simultaneously running several processes at once. I know Java and C# have a shared-memory concurrency model. Some modern languages like…

Say Hello To My Little Friend

Now I have some free time to get back to some old hobbies. Meet Q, my little friend. Q is shy and kind of clumsy but zhe’s only a day old. All the C-code overloading zer brain. (Q is prefer not to stick to our usual gender binary so we will stick with “z” gender pronoun). Q is…

Javascript Revisited: Finding the Sum, Mean, Median

Write four functions: sum, mean, and median. Each accepts an array

and returns its respective calculation.

The syntax seems more like C++ than ruby.