Author Archives: Robby Chen

About Robby Chen

I was born in Shanghai, China and immigrated to the US in October 2004. I am currently studying the Web Programming AAS Degree in the Montgomery College.

Remove Part of File Names using PHP


Since David’s Batch Processor was pre-installed in GIMP on Ubuntu Studio, I used it extensively in the ICAF Gallery project today. My goal for these images is to resize their thumbnail version to 10KB or smaller and retain the original … Continue reading

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Transitioning to Ubuntu Studio


Yesterday I switched to Ubuntu Studio 10.04 mainly because I love the audio production tools available in the distro. The first time I tried to install Ubuntu Studio from the original DVD was a failure. That’s probably because this distro … Continue reading

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Changing Back to the Original Schedule and First Video Post (Updated)


Update (08/25/2010): The video quality has been improved thanks to OpenShot. Note that to watch the original HD quality, you must switch to 720p or 1080p. I also fixed the PHP script to exclude the XML file inside the background.xml … Continue reading

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C Increment and Decrement Operators


Programs coded with short-hand operators can run several milliseconds faster. Same as increment and decrement operators. They are — (minus minus) and ++ (plus plus). The following example shows the usage of these two operators: x = y + z++; … Continue reading

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Running Sims 3 under PlayOnLinux in Ubuntu Linux


Back when I was using Windows Vista years ago, I played The Sims 3 and other games for several hours. Once I switched to GNU/Linux, I got rid of these games when I failed to run them under Wine. However, … Continue reading

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My Latest Project


I have been volunteering at ICAF (International Child Art Foundation) since April of this year. When I first started off, I was assigned to be a video editor to edit pre-recorded videos for some international festivals. The reason why I … Continue reading

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C Advanced Operators


There are some advanced operators in C. First set of these operators is the Assignment Operators. Here are five operators presented in the arithmetic assignment operators: += (Plus Equals) -= (Minus Equals) *= (Multiply Equals) /= (Divide by Equals) %= … Continue reading

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C String and Character Functions Samples


Here are the exercises I did for the string and character functions: /* * * exercise1.c * * Allow user to input a string from the keyboard and * display the ASCII value for each character * * by Robby … Continue reading

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C Character Functions


There are several types of character functions in the standard C library. One type of character functions is character classification functions. They are isuppper, islower, isdigit, isspace, and other boolean functions. For example, if (isupper(ch)) determines whether ch is upper … Continue reading

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Play Around with Google Nexus One


I received my Nexus One today which I ordered from Google on Saturday. The FedEx delivery of the device was earlier than I expected. They delivered my order 10 AM in the morning, nearly 5 hours earlier than the estimated … Continue reading

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