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Posts by Geoffrey Liu

A software engineer by trade and a classical musician at heart. Currently a software engineer at Groupon getting into iOS mobile development. Recently graduated from the University of Washington, with a degree in Computer Science and a minor in Music. Web development has been my passion for many years. I am also greatly interested in UI/UX design, teaching, cooking, biking, and collecting posters.
September 25, 2013 at 9:36 pmDecember 22, 2015
Geoffrey Liu

Navigating application menus with the keyboard alone

Let’s say your mouse fails all of a sudden and the nearest batteries are at a convenience store a mile from your house. Well now you’re screwed right? No, if you know some handy keyboard shortcuts. Most applications like your web browser will have a menu bar of some sort. It may not be a bar so to speak, but …

September 15, 2013 at 12:00 pmNovember 21, 2013
Geoffrey Liu

Super User tip: Change Windows Command Prompt colors

Use the Command Prompt a lot? You don’t have to settle for Light-grey on black. In fact, you can color up your Command Prompt screen, like this! Or how about this? Fortunately this is very easy to do. In fact, there are two ways of doing so.

September 14, 2013 at 7:18 pmDecember 22, 2015
Geoffrey Liu

Reblog: Programming languages by heatmap

This article originally appeard on Mahdi Yusuf’s blog. It was originally titled Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes. 7th September, 2011 I switch between programming languages quite a bit; I often wondered what happens when having to deal with the different syntaxes, does the syntax allow you to be more expressive or faster at coding in one language or another. …

September 6, 2013 at 1:51 pm
Geoffrey Liu

It’s 2013, can we get text menus for telephone calls already?

Even though the telephone is slowly succumbing to the forces of email, texting, and Instagram, calling still has its uses. Customer support is one of those major uses, and it comes with a lot of time spent waiting for a prompter to recite the menu. “For billing information, press 1. To see your current balance, press 2. For more options, …

September 1, 2013 at 10:33 pm
Geoffrey Liu

Opinion: The pluses and pitfalls of online shopping

Just now, I finished shopping for some laptop accessories from Amazon.com. It was one of the few times that I go online to shop. On this occasion, it took me three whole days from the time I added the first item to the cart to the time I confirmed my order. To me, this was a disproportionate amount of time …

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