I often talk to students that want to contribute to open-source projects, but just don't have an idea what to work on.Here's a tip if you're in a similar situation (e.g. you want to apply for GSOC) :1 git clone repository_url_of_some_open_source_project target_directory2 grep -RIn TODO target_directory/*So, find the URL of the repository project you want to contribute to, checkout the repository using git/mercurial/svn and then find all the TODOs in the source code using grep.The -RIn flags will tell grep to do a recursive search (-R), skip binary files (-I) and include line numbers (-n) for r...

Everyday when I surf the Internet, I find much news about new smartphones andAndroid, iOS apps. Also I can find many people use iPhones and othersmartphones with Android OS. Apparently we are now in Mobile era. People canfind tons of news that says how Mobile has changed our life, made our lifesimpler and how easy we can know the world with mobile technology. Yes, it'strue, now we only need to press a button, we can know what happens in USA whichis thousands kilometres away from us. We can easily get to know what new promotionsthere are from different retailers. All these are hard to believe d...

As a software developer, I get to know a lot of other software developers. Many of the software developers I know are either running a startup, working as an early employee for a startup, doing contract jobs for a startup, or dreaming of one day starting a startup. My point is that software developers are very interested in startups, either starting them or working for them.My advice to anyone who’s interested in startups: Before you ever start a startup, try to make at least one cool and useful project. It doesn’t have to make money; in fact, it’s better if your...

Evan Williams, born March 31, 1972. American entrepreneurs, has created a number of Internet companies, including Pyra Labs, (operational blog, Blogger) and Twitter. He was Twitter, CEO from October 2008 to October 2010. Twitter former CEO Evan WilliamsEvan Williams grew up on a farm in Nebraska Clark Village. At the University of Nebraska, he studied a year and a half, then he started to work. He did different technologies work in some tech start-ups in Key West, Dallas, Austin, Texas. In 1996, he joined O'Reilly Media, at the beginning the was doing marketing, and later gradually became an i...

Hacker News is a very famous IT information hub. We can find many useful links about the latest IT news and fantastic technology demos. But there are two things I don’t like about Hacker News. Maybe some of you also have the same feelings.1.  About the more link. Every time we click the more link to go to next page, there will be a unique key generated to produce the new page. It is a good security mechanism. Also it may increase pages views as we need to read page by page but cannot jump to one specific page. But one problem is that if I open a page and navigate some pages and I h...

The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is specified in RFC 959, published in October 1985. The attempt in this specification is to satisfy the diverse needs of users of maxi-hosts, mini-hosts, personal workstations, and TACs, with a simple, and easily implemented protocol design.That's from the introduction. Does anyone here know what a TAC is? I don't. I had to look it up, since the acronym wasn't even expanded in the RFC. It took three tries in Google, and I finally found it in some obscure Cisco IOS manual -- it apparently stands for Terminal Access Control protocol. Whatever that means. . ...

China's leading mobile Internet software technology and application service provider UC excellent, its flagship product, UC browser, following the 2011 recommended by the world's leading classified information site About.com named the Readers' Choice Award in best mobile browser category, is once again awarded by About.com as Reader's Choice Award in Best Android Browser category. UC browser comes out on top in the About.com selection in two consecutive years.About.com, a part of The New York Times Group, is a life-service website which does classified life information recommendations. It has...

Nielsen released the 2012 digital industry rankings report, The report said Google continued to rank No.1. for web brand From January 2012 to October 2012, the average monthly unique visitors reached 172 million. Followed by Facebook which has 153 million average monthly unique visitors. In 2012, the online video service continues to grow, YouTube is still the largest online video site, an average annual 132 million unique visitors.Top 10 U.S. Web Brands of 2012For the details of other ranks and analysis. Please read more here.Source : http://www.36kr.com/p/200330.html...