Git Pages

Few days ago, I created a personal page in GitHub. I'm sure a lot of developer know GitHub Pages, if not, please do visit GitHub Pages for more information. Here is my personal Git Page. 

Few easy steps to create a personal GitHub Pages:
Step 1:
Create a repo uses your GitHub account name in GitHub. Like poiyee/poiyee.github.com

Command:
Create a directory in your local:
mkdir <dir_name> ==> mkdir poiyee 
Initialize Git repo: git init  

Step 2: 
Create a README and index.html file in your local repo and push to remote repo. 

Command: 
Create README and index file: 
touch README.md touch index.html 

Add these 2 files to stage/index area: 
git add * 

Commit changes to head: 
git commit -m "commit message" 

Push to remote Git repo: 
git remote add origin ==> git remote add origin https://github.com/poiyee/poiyee.github.com.git 
*Note: Escape this step if you already connect to your remote repo. 

Send changes to remote repo: 
git push origin master

Done. You will receive an mail from GitHub saying that it may takes few minutes to get your page appear.


Happy coding!=)

Officially Graduated

After studying 3 and a half year, I'm officially graduated on last weekend (21th Oct 2012). Thank you so much to my family , friends, lecturer, supervisor and all those who support, guide and teach me until now.

I have been through a lot during these 3 and a half year. Time flies, but I still remember the first day my family sent me to Malacca. Now, they came to Malacca again for my convocation. Finally, I'm able to make them proud of.

Graduated from university is just an ending for my university journey, now, there is another new journey waiting for me to work hard - that is my career. No matter how hard it is, I will try my best like I did before. I'm not going to be famous and rich in future but I want to enjoy life. Hopefully can spend more time with family and enjoy my work.

Millions thanks again to my family, friends and all of you who support, guide and advice me. Love you all.

Today's Thought - 17/2/2012

Don't compare yourself with others, don't let jealousy overwhelm us.

Learning Git - Basic Command

I think most of the programmers or IT geeks know about GitHub.  Created an account at GitHub recently (it's kinda late and have nothing to share yet) and started to learn Git.

Learned basic git command today.

1. Create git repository.

    $ git init (a .git subdirectory is created)

2. View status of files in working directory and staging area.

    $ git status (descriptive output)

    or 

    $ git status -s (short output)

3. Add files to staging area.

    $ git add [file_name] 

    or 

    $git add . (add all files under the directory we give)

4. Snapshot the staged content

    $ git commit (open a text editor to write commit message)

    or

    $ git commit -m "commit message" (write commit message at the same line)

That's all for my learning today. Keep it on.

References:

Pro Git Book

Mini Project - Income Tax Calculation

"Hey, It's time to update"...i told myself (I'm still in Chinese New Year mood). 

Started a mini project 2 weeks ago by using CodeIgniter, Twitter Bootstrap and some JQuery plugins to create a web page to calculate monthly income tax of Malaysia.  Main purpose of doing this is to learn CodeIgniter framework.  Being trapped in many times when setting up the project as i'm new to CodeIgniter framework (luckily documentation of CodeIgniter is good and there is Google).

There are tonnes of things that I have to learn in order to know CodeIgniter deeper.  Refactor code and layout arrangement is the next step.

Happy Chinese New Year.

References:
http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/toc.html
http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
http://jquerypriceformat.com/

Android Application Development - 1st Step

It's has been a long time ago since i said i want to learn and develop native mobile application and this time i have no excuses for myself as i have tons of time now.  Hopefully can learn something new while waiting for job offer.  Last year, i use PhoneGap to develop a mobile application for Android platform for my Final year Project.

For this time, i also want to start my very first step with Android platform as well.  The first step that newbies (may be not all) would take is read and follow step-by-step tutorial to create a "Hello World" application, so do i.  It's quite clear and easy to understand if follow the tutorial.

Reference:

http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/hello-world.html

Refactoring

Look back at my previous projects done in university and found that i can't even understand some of my codes.  Duplicated code, too much loops in a function...Realize that i'm also one of those who write unmaintainable code.

Refactoring is a new term that i have learned from my industrial training supervisor. Being assigned to read through the book - Refactoring by Martin Fowler and found that it's very useful in writing maintainable code.

"Refactoring is a technique to restructure an existing body of code without changing its behavior" - Martin Fowler

Every programmer can write code, but not every programmer can write maintainable code.  It's very suffer to maintain a messy code as we can't make sure changes we made to it will not change it's behavior or affect others.

Be in mind that " Always code as if the person who will maintain your code is a maniac serial killer that knows where you live." (one of my favorite programming quotes).  So, learn Refactoring. 

**It was a little bit upset that Refactoring is not being taught in my university.  Should it be taught in university? Absolutely YES!