Software

Software design

Reading notes on A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout

GUI testing tools

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GUI_testing_tools

Testing

Smoke testing (software)

Developing Usable Software

• Ten Simple Rules for Developing Usable Software in Computational Biology
• Ten simple rules for writing a paper about scientific software

UI design

• The Top 11 Tools You Should Master as a UI/UX Designer
• 10 Reasons Why Designing in Grayscale Will Improve Your UX/UI Designs

VLC keyboard shortcut

• Alt + arrows => skip 10 seoncds
• +, - (no shift needed) => play faster, slower
• M => toggle mute

FreeMind

Java based program

Install:

• Install FreeMind on Mac OSX. This essentially download FreeMind_1.0.1.dmg. I can just download the general binary file and launch it directly bash ~/Downloads/freemind-bin-max-1.0.1/freemind.sh . But remember don't try to launch the program twice.
• How To Install FreeMind 1.0.1 on Ubuntu 18.10, Ubuntu 18.04

$ sudo apt install snapd
$ sudo snap install freemind

# Optional, to remove freemind, do:
$ sudo apt remove freemind

Tips:

• Create graphical links between two nodes. To do so, mark a node and drag to another node holding both shift and control keys, and releasing the mouse button first. You can edit some properties of this link by right-clicking on the line between them.
• FAQ
• Move node around?
• GraphViz mediawiki extension.
  • How To Install And Use Graphviz On Ubuntu. After installing graphviz, new binaries like dot are under /usr/bin.

Examples: Mind Maps by Vladimir Toncar

coggle.it

https://coggle.it/

unison

http://code.google.com/p/winison/

Evernote

• http://lifehacker.com/5964285/whats-all-the-fuss-about-evernote-why-do-people-use-it
• http://lifehacker.com/5989980/ive-been-using-evernote-all-wrong-heres-why-its-actually-amazing
• http://lifehacker.com/paperwork-is-an-evernote-alternative-you-can-host-yours-1693856130 Paperwork Is an Evernote Alternative You Can Host Yourself
• Joplin: The True Open Source Evernote Alternative

To find out the source of a web clip, click the Note Info icon at the top.

Tusk

Refined Evernote desktop app

Dropbox

10 tricks and tips

• Favorite files for offline reading on mobile devices
• Use Dropbox as your default Document folder
• Email files to dropbox as attachment
• Get more stoage for free
• Maintain firefox settings across different computers
• Upload files to Dropbox via URL - URL droplet
• Download torrents remotely
• Maintain two dropbox accounts - Dropbox wiki
• Backup your web site - Backup Box
• Host web page - DropPages or Pancake.io

Ubuntu

• From the official website:
  • Dropbox Headless Install via command line
  • How to uninstall Dropbox on your computer
  • How to run an advanced reinstall of Dropbox
• How to Install Dropbox on a Headless Ubuntu Server 2020

• How to install Dropbox GUI or Headless on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (works)

  cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -
  ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd
  sudo wget -O /etc/systemd/system/[email protected] \
     https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joeroback/dropbox/master/dropbox%40.service
  sudo systemctl enable dropbox@$(whoami)
  sudo systemctl start dropbox@$(whoami)
  sudo systemctl status dropbox@$(whoami)
  curl -LO https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/dropbox.py
  sudo mv dropbox.py /opt/
  sudo ln -s /opt/dropbox.py /usr/bin/dropbox
  
  sudo dropbox update
  

  Question: how to know there is a new update?

• Some command-line examples
• Dropbox very high CPU usage without any actual data transfer, Dropbox is taking too much CPU time. How can I fix it?

On my Ubuntu machine (20.04), I found the machine's HDD led is very busy. When I used grafana to monitor, it can be seen the disk I/O dropped to 0 after I disable dropbox daemon.

Photos

• Google Photos vs. Flickr
• How Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO Affect Your Photos

License

• What Is Creative Commons and Non-Commercial Use?
• R packages -> License

Open source

• Ten simple rules on writing clean and reliable open-source scientific software
• How to write about open source software
• The Software I use in 2023 from opensourceisawesome
• 7 Misconceptions About Open Source Software

Difference Between Development, Stage, And Production

Difference Between Development, Stage, And Production 4 tiers

• development is what you have on your local machine
• stage: not stable, built with the last contributions from git
• QA: same data as production (optional)
• production

On NIH, it is Dev -> QA -> Stage -> Prod.

There are different definitions. On microsoft, it follows this process:

• Development
• Testing
• Staging
• Production