Top 25 molecules used in plastics
Plastic is an essential material in our daily lives. From packaging to construction, from electronics to medical devices, plastic is ubiquitous. While there are many types of plastics, they all…
Overview of GIS – Geographical Information System
What is GIS GIS stands for Geographic Information System. It is a computer-based system used to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present geographic data. GIS integrates hardware, software, and…
Quick Introduction to Amazon Cloud
Cloud refers to hosted services over the Internet. For example, Google Drive and GoogleDocs are cloud services. Google Drive allows you to save your files on their hardware. GoogleDocs is…
Vagrant error occurred while downloading the remote file
Problem An error occurred while downloading the remote file. The error message, if any, is reproduced below. Please fix this error and try again. Cause You are running vagrant init…
Timed out while waiting for the machine to boot in vagrant
If you see the following error message, this post shows how to fix the problem. Naturally, the first thing that would come to your mind would be to increase config.vm.boot_timeout…
Getting started with GIT
A version control system keeps track of changes in code. It keeps track of every change made by every developer. It allows code bases to be branched and then merged…
Splitting strings in Java
Java’s split function packs a powerful punch. You can use it to split string on characters, symbols, substrings, a collection of symbols, or even regular expressions. public class SplitString {…
Brackets /bin/sh: node: command not found
Problem JavaScript code not running on Brackets. Error Message Root Cause Brackets cannot find node binary file. Solution Open terminal and type the following commands and note the addressed returned:…
Mac terminal shows wrong host name
Problem Mac terminal shows the wrong hostname on prompt. Solution Find out if a hostname is already specified. To set your Hostname Exit out of your terminal and start a…
Linux batch renaming files
Batch renaming files in Linux requires writing or using a shell script. If you don’t have the time to write or find a shell script to batch rename your files,…