It takes days and days reading books, practicing and involving in real project if you want to learn a programming language well. It's just like a marathon, you will get more if you can insist longer. During this long and boring period, there are always something you can learn within a short period of time, like within one day. These skills can bring your big satisfaction.Below are a list of technical skills which you can pick up within one single day, they are advocated by Jacob Jensen, a Googler.Read the freaking manual for your favorite language. In the past I've wasted hours in Python becau...

The Internet evolves very fast since its birth. In 1995, a TV program called Computer Chronicles made an episode about new technology "The Internet". Now let's check out what the Internet looks like in 1995 through some video screenshots.First the host Stewart Cheifet appeared in the video where he was in a network cafe. There you can meet the real people and virtual person. That's a good thing.The first guide of us is the technology journalist from New York Times John Markoff.He said his favorite thing on Internet was using Email, the below screenshot  shows the email he received from St...

If you have a GitHub account, then you will be able to see a section called Public contributions on your profile page. Your contribution status for the past year will be showed on this section, it's called contribution calendar.This calendar has 7 rows and 53 columns. Each cell on the grid represents your contribution status for one day, if the contribution is different, the cell color will be different. There are 5 colors in total : white, yellow, light green,green and deep green.With this, some people start to show their creativity, they start to draw on this grid. Let's check some interesti...

If there is one debate that never dies in the language community then it is this: Who’s the winner: Python Vs Java, C/C++. Obviously each has its own pros and cons, but in which language do the pros outnumber the cons or which language has better cons than others! For some it just comes down to familiarity, they like what they like! The Numbers But as far as the rest of the language world goes, the debate is still out there. By last count, Java, C and C++ were still winning. According to the Tiobe language popularity index, Java, C and C++ still take the top three counts. ...

Are you curious about what are their early homepages like for some famous IT companies? Let's take a look at them now.1. GoogleThis page was relative concise at that time. The current Google homepage is more concise.2. FacebookIt went online on 4th Feb, 2004. This was its homepage in 20043. YouTubeIt went online on 15th Feb, 2005. Until 22nd April, the first video clip was uploaded.4. WikipediaIt emphasizes on free content and collaborative editing. It also supports many languages.5. YahooIt was created in January 1994.6. TwitterIt was called twttr at first. 7. BloggerIt's acquired by Goo...

According to data from market research company StartCounter, by May 2012, Chrome has overtakes IE as the No. 1 web browser globally. Firefox and Safari is following IE to be 3rd and 4th most popular web browser.In May, market share of Chrome is 33%, while IE only gets 32%. Firefox is slowly dropping, which has a share of 25%.  However, with release date of Windows 8 approaching, IE 10 will also be shipped with Win8, at that time, the number of users who use IE may increase because according to some testings, IE10's performance is satisfying and it also has relative good HTML5 support. How...

After Twitter introduced mandatory authentication with OAuth, many of the current scripts for posting content to Twitter don’t work anymore.OAuth can be great for more advanced authentication, but for a simple post to twitter script, it seems like a little overkill.In this post you’ll learn how to create a simple script that uses a quick and dirty version of OAuth for posting new tweets to Twitter.How to create a simple scriptSimplified, Twitter OAuth involves sending both application tokens and user tokens back and forth between your site and Twitter.If you want to authenticate ...

When we read emails or short message on our phone, we will often see some words such as FYI or LOL etc. Do you know their meanings, right? But some of the abbreviations we may not know or cannot remember clearly. Here is a list of English abbreviations which may be useful to you in the future when you want to check them.      Numbers:    &n"sp;   2 = to/too 　　2B or not 2B = To be or not to be 　　4 = for 　　4ever = forever 　A： 　　ASL = Age/Sex/Location 　　AFAIC = As Fa...