Kai Chao - Tales of a Programmer (Page 2)

Kai Chao

Meteor Tutorial - Let's build a Twitter clone (Part 1: Intro to Meteor)

I want to show you how you can build a simple twitter clone using Meteor. I started writing Meteor code a few months ago. I fell in love with the simplicity and the client/server abstraction. Meteor the most pleasant js framework I have ever worked with. The goal of

Host Multiple Sites on Single EC2 Instance - Ubuntu 14.04, nginx, node js

Tutorial This post is for you if you are trying to host multiple websites on the same EC2 instance. The tutorial is tailored for Ubuntu, but other than the apt-get instructions, it should work for all Linux instances. Briefly speaking, we want to use nginx to reverse proxy the traffic

Python Selenium + PhantomJS on AWS EC2 Ubuntu Instance - Headless Browser Automation

Selenium and PhantomJS working in conjunction is one of the best headless browser automation options available today. I had been running a task written in Python on my local Mac OS X Yosemite for some time. I was trying to schedule the same job on my EC2 Ubuntu (14.04

Retrofit and RxJava, Android multi-threaded REST requests

Introduction Making a RESTful API call in software is as common-place as eating cereal at breakfast in the modern era. The Android library currently does not have an elegant solution to perform this simple task. There are two key tasks that you want to abstract 1. Write async processing code

Fitbit Flex & Misfit Shine - Wearable Noob's First Impression

Fitbit Flex Wireless Activity + Sleep Wristband, Black Misfit Shine - Activity and Sleep Monitor Background IoT is taking over Silicon Valley. Apple and a dozen wearable startups have made it clear that wearable market is going to be the first battlefield. I finally decided that I would give fitness tracking