Reading Time: < 1 minute I have been doing this for a while, mostly for my new work (back to dev). My goal is being able to debug a Java web application, just like what I did for my previous work (Spring STS + Tomcat). The new work requires Eclipse + JBoss (some coworkers uses the not free Intelli-J). Download

Reading Time: < 1 minute (11-03-2018) Alibaba just reported a quarter in which its cloud revenue grew 90% YoY. It appears Ali Cloud is No. 4 in the world: behind Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Thinking Ali may challenge Amazon in not too distant future (note Ali started the cloud much later than Amazon). About Alibaba

Reading Time: < 1 minute Two years ago, I was trying to migrate an app back-end from now defunct Parse.com to Firebase, I was not successful. I was able to make it work last night, after reading more about the data structure in Firebase realtime database. I was able to do it by following the examples in this tutorial page.

Reading Time: 3 minutes (Update 08-26-2020) Technically 3rd take. I was following along with the Google Cloud Storage ClamAV tutorial, and had an issue of not being able to connect to port 3310 on GCP. (Update 08-29-2020) It was solved. Some tips: ==== 1) There were some typos: such as the directory related to the git project, as well

Reading Time: 2 minutes I was travelling in China for 9, 10 days recently, and I can see those two payments method everywhere. From the small food stall to KFC, one of those two methods are widely accepted, and in many cases cash transactions are very rare. I noticed this trend about 1.5 years ago during my China trip

Reading Time: < 1 minute Last Friday evening, when I was at a gathering at Shack, for a fundraising event my daughter’s school association (usually called parent teacher organization or PTO in other schools), with auction and beer/food etc. I was talking to a dad, since his kid is same grade as my daughter. I said “I know your wife

Reading Time: < 1 minute Saw some good personal finance quiz recently. 70 percent of Americans can’t answer these 3 basic money questions Pop Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of Personal Finance Rutgers personal health and finance quiz

Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update 17-Apr-2019) I recently changed job again and also did some adjustments on old 401k, after leaving much of them alone since 2009. I did moved some money from small 401k to an IRA account (those employers asked me to move the money out). I made some mistakes during the IRA investing, and was reluctant

Reading Time: 2 minutes My older daughter just finish 1st grade. One thing I learned is first graders do have some homework, at the same time they usually don’t have homework over the weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday). In other words, homework usually won’t be assigned out on Friday and due to Monday. This is something I like to

Reading Time: < 1 minute Chase (link here): First two rides = 50% off (up to $15 per ride). Use your Chase card to sign up for a new Uber account, enter promo code CHASE50, and take your first two rides by 7/31/17 SPG (Starwood preferred guest): this is target offer. I got it in the email, quoted below: Get