Puppy Cafe in Hongdae

We came across a puppy cafe right outside of Hongik University. 

Since we went to the cat cafe already, why not check out some cute man's best friends as well? 

The address: 

343-6 Seogyo-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul, South Korea

 The dogs gets very excited every time there is people near the entrance, and the owner always uses treats to distract them...

You Are Here Cafe

I love eatyourkimchi, I learned so much info about Seoul from their videos!
I know that they have their own cafe opened in Hongdae this year, so we paid a visit.

Notes and photos from fans all over the world. 

Our drinks. My smoothie was so rich and yummy!

On the second floor, it was filled with stylish mismatching chairs and cute plushes chilling here and there. It was too cute I almost melted. (*≧∪≦)  

More info: http://www.eatyourkimchi.com/you-are-here-cafe-opening/

Cat Cafe in Hongdae

First thing off my do-to list: Visit Cat Cafe! ((^∀^*))

There are couple Cat Cafes in Hongdae, we went to one called Ycat Cafe. It is right outside of the Unversity.

The address is: 

3F, 358-92, Seogyo-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul, Korea 

서울시 마포구 서교동 358-92 3층 청춘고양이

This is on the entrance of the building, the cafe is on the third floor. 

This little thing was the first one to come to us. It looks like it came straight out of a cartoon or thing... (･´з`･)

I walked around the cafe to take photos, lots of the cats are still sleepy.

This one likes the cashier's counter. (≧∀≦)   

There is a gigantic hamster wheel for the cats.

This is the first munckin cat I have ever seen!  (*_*) So adorable...

Nice t-shirt!

The young ones chilling on the carpet in the center of the cafe.

What a pose...   (o´▽｀o)

Dan got his own body guard.

Here are some more shots of the white munchkin.

The owner came out, and he was treated like a celebrity! (･∀･)

 (=´∀｀)人(´∀｀=)  

Hongdae Morning

So we set off to Seoul and arrived at our first destination Hongdae  (홍대)  on the night of Friday Oct 10th.

Because of jetlags, we woke up pretty early.

Here is our first breakfast! Toast, egg, and a cup of nespresso. φ(>ω<*)

We went out to the streets of Hongdae after that.

Street was so quite, as if its like a different place compare to last night.

Graffiti are spotted every corner of Hongdae.

Arrived at the entrance of Hongik University, we walked in to check out for a bit. 

Our first coffeeshop visit.  We ordered waffle and coffee fro coffeesmith right outside of Hongik University. It was very tasty and the environment is amazing! ヾ(･∀･)ﾉ  

Right outside of the back of coffeesmith, I found these adorable cat murals.  (≧ω≦)

Single Page Application (SPA) Must Haves

Front-end development is fun and resourceful, with all those fancy js libraries sometimes it can get out of hand. For the past year, I have been working on turning a web-based game into a single page application/game and here are some of the library I been loving.

Path.js

https://github.com/mtrpcic/pathjs

When it come to SPA development, its all about staying in one page. However, your app/game is more complicated than that, it has components. location.hash is your friend, it will help you 'simulate' page redirects, gives your app structure that it needs. Path is a tiny library that lets you manage your hashes with ease. 

Underscore.js

http://underscorejs.org/
Underscore saves you time parse your objects or arrays. _.pluck and _.filter are definitely my favourites out of many many useful functions. 

Handlebars.js

http://handlebarsjs.com/
Embedded javascript template system can make template more complicated than it is, when logic are pushed to the template, it can be hard to maintain. Handlebars keeps templating minimal by letting you register Helper classes outside of your template.

I am not going over Frameworks like Angular, Ember, or Backbone since it is out of the scope of this topic, however, you might be able to find traces of these library I mentioned in those frameworks!

[Python] Hosting static web pages locally on mac

Looks like I can simulate a simple FTP server locally without setting up an actual FTP or web server when development static websites. 

On your terminal, navigate to the directory of your project and start this:

$python -m SimpleHTTPServer

 And when this is printed: 

Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...

Open localhost:8000 in browser and you should able to see your index.html rendering!

This is very handly to test out all file path of static files and simulate a FTP server locally. I can finally skip my skeleton.js node server :)

Have fun coding! 

source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3800143/ad-hoc-webserver-for-static-files-on-unix-macosx

Amazing Google+ Event Themes

I been noticing these awazing subtle animated backgrounds on the Google+ events I have been invited to.

Here is a couple of them.

Even the static ones are super nice.

However, there are so much to choose from and I am dissappointed that I have to preview each one of them by clicking on the left and right arrows.

Catogorizing by the style or type of event will totally help the selection process.