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  Check whether a remote server port is open on Linux

As a system administrator or network engineer or application developer, there is a need to check whether a port on remote server is open so that you can tell whether the service under check is running or not. In this post, we would cover a few methods to check whether a remote server port is open or not on Linux. telnet telnet is the most frequently used command on both Windows and Linux to check port. The simple usage for this command is  telnet [host] [port] When the port is open, the o...

   LINUX,TELNET,PORT,NC,NMAP     2017-12-23 11:45:20

  In-memory key-value store in C, Go and Python

Subtitle: Wow Go’s net library is fast On paternity leave for my second child, I found myself writing an in-memory hashmap (a poor-man’s memcached), in Go, Python and C. I was wondering how hard it would be to replace memcached, if we wanted to do something unusual with our key-value store. I also wanted to compare the languages, and, well, I get bored easily! The code is on github as Key-Value-Polyglot. Each version implements enough of the get and set commands from the mem...

   key-value,Memory,C,Python,Go     2012-03-21 09:21:51

  Those interaction methods we can play with

Smartphones have become one important part of our lives, the phone apps also play more and more important roles. They can help us live through the boring time or help us connect to our close friends fat away from us or help us get information,etc. There are also some interesting interaction methods since the birth of smartphones. We can play with them while we interact with the smartphones. Here we summarize some of them. 1. Shake Since WeChat introduces the Shake method to find people which yo...

   Interaction,Mobile device,Google glass     2013-05-07 05:21:15

  Weibo is testing an Instagram like app called Lvzhou

Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, is testing an Instagram like app called Lvzhou(Oasis in English). Now only invited people can access the app. You can download the app on App Store if you are an iPhone user or you can download online if you are an Android user. The vision of this app is to allow users to discover beautiful world, users can post photos or short videos and share with the rest of the world. Before you can access the app, you have to obtain an invitation code shared by y...

   INSTAGRAM,WEIBO,LVZHOU,OASIS     2019-09-07 09:59:54

  Chrome extension to display desktop notification

Have you ever thought about writing extension for web browsers so that we can complete some tasks easily. Do you think writing extension for browsers is very difficult? You have no clue where to begin? On Chrome, this isn't any problem now as long as you know how to write HTML,CSS and JavaScript. We will show one example of Chrome extension today. The extension will display a desktop notification on your desktop. You need to create two files here, one is the notification.json which is the config...

   Chrome extension,Desktop notification,Example     2013-06-29 22:23:51

  Alibaba Cloud was down again just after Singles' Day promotion

On November 12th, several popular Alibaba platforms and services experienced technical issues, causing widespread disruption and becoming hot topics on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter. These services include Taobao, Xianyu, DingTalk, Aliyun Drive etc. Users took to social media to report instances of "Taobao crashing." Some encountered code display errors on the shopping page, while others faced a blank screen. However, a few users claimed they were still able to shop without any prob...

   ALIBABA CLOUD,ALIYUN,DOWN     2023-11-12 21:44:16

  ScrollerJS vs Odometer

Both ScrollerJS and Odometer are two JavaScript libraries to transition one number to another number with animation. They provide user a fancy animation about scrolling numbers. These libraries can be used in many scenarios such as user statistic counter, timer or odometer. This post is going to have a comparison on these two open source libraries. Below is a table which lists the features the two libraries have: Feature ScrollerJS Odometer Language JavaScript and CSS JavaScript and CSS S...

   JavaScript, Odometer, ScrollerJS, Open source, CSS Transition     2015-05-13 02:10:55

  Install Kubernetes with minikube and docker on Ubuntu

When someone just wants to play around Kubernetes on its local environment without accessing to Cloud provider resources, one can set Kubernetes up on local environment with minikube with single node mode. This post will provide a simple guideline on how to set up KUbernetes with minikube and docker on Ubuntu. Before all the steps can be started, you may need to first set up kubectl which is a command line tool to operate on Kubernetes resources. Post that, can ensure that docker is installed on...

   KUBERNETES,MINIKUBE,DOCKER,UBUNTU     2021-06-01 05:37:40

  Why do I need a debugger?

  When I begin to learn a new programming language, I will try and master the debugger for it as early as possible. For example, in 2013, while I touched the Go, there seems only gdb for use. Although gdb itself is not a good choice (From Debugging Go Code with GDB): As a consequence, although GDB can be useful in some situations, it is not a reliable debugger for Go programs, particularly heavily concurrent ones. But at that time there was no other choice. So after delve&nb...

       2017-07-21 22:53:16

  GIF’s - Effective Engagement Tool Of Elearning

Elearning has been continuously facing the challenge of keeping the learners engaged. Many methods are being used to ensure that the learner understands the concepts even without an instructor. The inclusion of various multimedia modes like informative audios, videos, games, animations, etc. has become almost necessary to include as these are considered to make the concepts easier to understand.  In a nutshell, there are many advantages of using multimedia in an eLearning program, however, ...

   GIF,ELEARNING     2021-09-23 07:17:52