In past few days, there are many tech news which are related to open source. For example, Microsoft enables Linux on its Windows Azure cloud, Facebook open sourced its C++ library Folly and Samsung joined Linux foundation. Now more and more big companies realize the power of open source and are willing to contribute to the open source community. It will benefit not only developers but also these big companies as well.By providing some open source libraries or projects, developer may reduce their time of development and enjoy some performance improvement from open sourced resource. Some of thes...

Are you looking for a perfect platform to set up your website? Then, there might be a close competition between the simple HTML and the WordPress platform. In this blog post, we will try to explore some points that will help you in making the right decision.Let us overview at some advantages grasped by HTML and WordPress.1. Security of a websiteIt has been discovered that the website running on WordPress is more vulnerable to security threats and hackers. As we know, WordPress is open source platform; therefore, it is comparatively easy to hack WP sites than a site that is coded in HTML.If you...

Twitter recently made a commitment that they would sponsor the Apache Software Foundation, it will become its official sponsor. The Apache Software Foundation is a nonprofit organization, it can provide the organization and management, legal and financial support for open source projects.As we all know, Twitter loves open source, and its engineers are often engaged in open source community to provide technical support. Twitter team is also responsible for the related construction of the open source community, including startup program for websites, applications,  and toolkit support.Twitt...

It has been some time since I heard about the new generation of AI powered coding assistant -- Github Copilot. Don't get chance to experience it until obtained the tech preview access recently. So this post will document some first impression while using it.For now, this tool is only supported in VSCode and it can support various different programming languages. To enable it, just need to search and install the Github Copilot extension within VSCode. Once that is enabled, you will find that whenever you type something in your editor, there might be some suggestion with grey text showing up.And...

Although many Open Source projects don’t require you publish the modifications of them, I still propose you should make the changes open. The reasons are as following:(1) For other people: the out-of-box Open Source projects save your time and money, and you get benefit from them. You should not only take, but also need to give! Only if everyone shares his code, document, or whatever related, the Open Source projects can grow up healthy.(2) For yourself: You release your code can actually make you “richer”. With more and more people use your code, more and more bugs will be f...

In a developer's daily work, it is frequent to see lots of commits made. It would be a headache if one cannot use git commands well especially when in cases where some fixes need to be made on existing branches. There are some frequently used command such as git pull, git merge and git push. Apart from these, there are some other practical commands which may be useful for real use cases. This post will try to list some of them.git grep It will lists all files containing the searched keyword. This is similar to the Linux command grep.git blameIt will list the author and change time of each...

Why do I think Wi-Fi is needed in schools? Times have changed.  We need to adapt to the changes. I believe the internet is probably the most important tool available today. The world- wide web contains information about anything you could possibly want or need to know.  It allows an even playing field for people who don’t have the information and knowledge to be able to get it. Students today are the future.  They need to be able to access as much knowledge as possible to become successful and make the world a better place. Access to the internet makes a world of differenc...