Install composer and Yii2 on windows

Download and install wamp and composer from here if you have not installed php and composer yet

https://sourceforge.net/projects/wampserver/
https://getcomposer.org/Composer-Setup.exe

Open powershell in admin and run the following command:

> [cd to your own directory where you like to do development]
> composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:~1.1.1"
> composer create-project --prefer-dist yiisoft/yii2-app-basic myappname

The "myappname" is the directory to which yii2 will be installed

Simple command to start with GIT

This post keeps some quick references to simple command lines for starting using git with bitbucket.

```bash
`mkdir ~/git/myproject
`cd ~/git/myproject
`git init
`git remote add origin https://[myname]@bitbucket/[myname]/myproject.git
`touch helloworld.txt
`git add --all .
`git commit -m "first time commit"
`git push origin master

Other useful commands like:

• View remote urls : git remote -v
• Change remote url: git remote set-url add origin ...

`

Cassandra Repair

http://oliviercontant.com/cassandra-monitor-repair-task/

http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/advanced-repair-techniques

http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/operations/ops_repair_nodes_c.html

http://jonathanhui.com/cassandra-data-maintenance-backup-and-system-recovery

http://monkeys.chaordic.com.br/operation/zero-downtime-cassandra-upgrade/

https://github.com/BrianGallew/cassandra_range_repair

Chocolatey

Chocolatey is a machine packaging manager for Windows, which makes it very easy to install tools such as cygwin and many others on Windows platform.

To install Chocolatey, open powershell in administrator mode and run the following command:

iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

To use Chocolatey for installing tools such as vagrant and virtualbox, run the following command in powershell:

cinst vagrant virtual

To install Cygwin, run the following command in powershell:

cinst cyg-get


Link: https://chocolatey.org/

Convert *.jpg to *.ps on Mac OS

Firstly, install homebrew, then run the following command:

# brew install imagemagick

After the imagemagick is installed, run the following command to convert jpg to ps:

# convert picture.jpg picture.ps

DevOps: Application and Device Monitoring Platforms

Bosun: http://bosun.org/
Kamon: http://kamon.io/
New Relic: http://newrelic.com/
AWS Cloud Watch: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/
Nagios: https://www.nagios.org/
Splunk: http://www.splunk.com/
Server Density: https://www.serverdensity.com/
Loggly: https://www.loggly.com/
Logrhythm: https://logrhythm.com/
Takipi: https://www.takipi.com/
Sematext SPM: https://www.sematext.com
Sematext Logscene: https://www.sematext.com/logsene/
AppDynamics: https://www.appdynamics.com/

MacOS: Change [HOME] and [END] key to move to the begining or end of a line in a text editor

While writing code on Windows, the [HOME] and [END] key allow me to move to the begining or end of a line, but this is not the default behavior on MacOS while i am doing development at the moment. Since i love this feature and would like to have something similar, after digging i found the following way that works for me.

Download, install and run the Karakiner (https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/), In its "Change Key" tab, search for "Use PC style home/end", Now check to enable this feature, and there you have the PC style home/end shorts which allows to move to the begining or end of a line when pressing the [HOME] or [END] key

TortoiseSVN: recursively exclude bin, obj folders and other meta files from committing to SVN server

Suppose you use TortoiseSVN as SVN client and have a large project which contains many sub projects, and you want to exclude committing the "bin", "obj" folders to the SVN server, you can add a global ignore pattern to the root folder of the project by right-clicking the folder and selecting "Tortoise SVN --> properties" and add in a global ignore pattern such as in the following figure (remember to check the "Apply property recursively" if it is the first time to do so).

PluralSight Video Buffering problem

Recently i was having some problem with watching videos from pluralsight, the chrome i am using to watch their online videos stop buffering when continuing from one video to the next (only shows a progress circle in the middle of the black background), after contacting their support, the following workaround was offered, which seems to solve my problem:

"If you are running Chrome 42 or higher you will need to go to the URL [chrome://flags/#enable-npapi] and click “Enable” under Enable NPAPI. Click Relaunch Now at the bottom of the page"

Add or modify Text to the PDF in Adobe Acrobat

To add or edit text to a PDF file using the Adobe Acrobat, select "Tools->Advanced Editing->Touchup Text Control", Now select some text to modify, a rectangle will appear, and one can begin typing text, or modify the font by right -click the selected text and select "Properties".

To add a signature or draw something on PDF, select "Tools->Drawing Markups->Pencil Toos"

Screen Sharing Free Tool

https://www.join.me/?BoxUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fsecure.join.me%2FBigIdea%2FShareJoin%2FPages%2FShareJoin.aspx&ReturnUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fsecure.join.me%2Ffederated%2Floginsso.aspx&TrackingUniqueId=3c3677ce-69b0-4761-b60e-aa7fc984511b

How to collapse all projects in the solution explorer of visual studio

The following link contains the visual studio extension which allows one to collapse the projects in the solution explorer of the visual studio. Very useful if a solution contains  a lot of projects:

https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/cb0ec47d-05a4-40a7-ba39-9a2da6492f1c/

Setup and run FTP Server on Unbuntu 14.04 LTS

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-vsftpd-on-ubuntu-12-04

Simply run the following commands to install vsftpd:

> sudo apt-get install vsftpd

Run the following commands to open the vsftpd.conf for editing:

> sudo gedit /etc/vsftpd.conf

In the vsftpd.conf, uncomment the following line:

anonymous=NO
local_user=YES
write_enable=YES
chroot_local_user=YES

Save and close vsftpd.conf and change the root folder:

> sudo chown root:root $HOME

Now restart the vsftpd:

> sudo service vsftpd restart

Disable internal keyboard of a laptop running on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Recently I need to use a very old laptop, which happens to have some of its internal keyboard damaged, i attached an external keyboard via usb but the internal keyboard keeps interfere with the terminal input and the GUI (possibly due to malfunction that causes some keys to be pressed permanently). Therefore, I decided to disable the internal keyboard of the laptop, and now everything works wonderfully. The way to do this is as following:

1. Open a terminal, and run the following command:

> xinput list

2. Take note of the id in the line that reads "AT Translated Set 2 Keyboard", in my laptop it is 14. Now run the following command to disable it:

> xinput float 14

By the way, to re-enable run "xinput reattach 14".

Free tool for file conversion between PDF, Tex, Word and so on

pandoc (Download from http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/index.html)

A set of tools useful for network analysis on Windows OS

Traceroute: trace network to network hopping to the destination host
(Enter tracert command on Windows console)

wget: fetch contents from network
(Download from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm)

cUrl: fetch contents from network
(Download from http://curl.haxx.se/dlwiz/?type=bin&os=Win32&flav=-&ver=2000%2FXP)

Wireshark: trace the protocol layering, packet, data frames when contents are transmitted from the local machine to hosts on the network
(Download from http://www.wireshark.org/download.html)

Useful Graph and Network Analysis Tool

Gephi: https://gephi.org/
iGraph: http://igraph.sourceforge.net/
NetLogo: http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/

Other tools
pajek: http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/
NetworkX: http://networkx.github.io/
NodeXL: http://nodexl.codeplex.com/

Collection of Game Making Tools

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ah0yrnCdmNpKdDREVG1rOFFva3gxVGZuRkU5ZGYzSGc#gid=0

Convert WMV, AVI, MPEG to MP4

To convert WMV and MPEG to MP4:

http://download.cnet.com/Free-Convert-MPEG-WMV-to-MP4-FLV-AVI-Converter/3000-2194_4-10909240.html

To Convert AVI to MP4:

http://download.cnet.com/AVI-to-MP4-Converter/3000-2194_4-10912245.html

Accessing NTU Email Account by Android

http://eonstrife.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/accessing-your-ntu-staff-and-student-e-mail-in-android-device/