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  You know what UTF-8 is when you see it?

When we are coding we may often see some encoding specifications in our source codes such as UTF-8,GB2312. Do you know what these encoding mean and why we need them? In this post, Julián Solórzano will introduce the most widely used encoding specification around the world accomodating all different character sets in the world. UTF-8 is a method for encoding Unicode characters using 8-bit sequences. Unicode is a standard for representing a great variety of characters from many ...

   UTF-8,Encoding     2014-04-18 22:13:44

  WireGuard VPN: Setup WG_VPN client App on Android phone and connect to local WG_VPN server on VM

We will show the detail steps about how to setup the WireGuard VPN client on an Android phone/pad and configure the VPN client to connect a WG_VPN server in local network. The setup process contents three main steps: Install WireGuard and create a key-pair in WireGuard client. Add the Android client peer information in the WireGuard server’s config file. Config the Android WireGuard client to connect to the server. The test environment network configuration:  Step 1. Install Wire...

   WIREGUARD,VPN,TUTORIAL     2020-10-24 08:46:42

  Use CSS calc to align an element vertically

calc function is a function introduced in CSS3, it can be used to calculate length values. There are a few good features which make it suitable for aligning an element vertically. One good part is that the operands can have different units like percentage, px, rem etc. This makes it very flexible when calculating the length value. One example: .rect{ margin-top:20px; height:50px; background:green; width:calc(100%-20px); } Here the left operand uses percentage while the right one ...

   CSS3,CALC,VERTICAL ALIGN     2019-08-23 20:30:23

  PHP to output string to client terminal

It is a common task to echo messages to the user using PHP. There are lots of ways where the message can be echoed to the client terminal(browser or console window) through PHP. These includes some well know debug methods like var_dump() and var_export() etc. In this post, we will show you some other methods shared by Laruence, one of the core members of PHP development team. 1. echo First comes with the most common one : echo. $str = "Hello PHP\n"; echo $str; 2. print Then comes another c...

   TRICKS,DEBUG,OUTPUT,PHP     2015-10-01 03:16:56

  Google Nexus Event Live

Google is going to have new Nexus product release at 12 o'clock 30th September(Beijing time). This new Nexus will ship with the latest Android 6.0 Marshmallow system from Google.  Here is the live stream from YouTube. Two Nexus phones are expected to be unveiled tonight. They are from LG and Huawei respectively.. The Nexus 6P is Huawei's first Nexus device and will be available for pre-order on Tuesday in the U.S., U.K., Ireland, Canada and Japan starting at $499.99 and the devic...

   LIVE,ANDROID 6.0,NEXUS,GOOGLE     2015-09-29 10:57:04

  Beauty of front end--List of front end tools used by GitHub

I did this summarization when I added Lirate_CoffeeScript support for GitHub-Linguist, i.e how does GitHub do Marjdown render and code highlight in its front end. Lots of font end tools used by GitHub are open sourced. They are: 1. HTML/CSS/JavaScript 1.1 HTML template GitHub markup and template styleguide : https://github.com/styleguide/templates 1.2 Style and CSS GitHub uses replacement of CSS: SCSS：https://github.com/nex3/sass KSS：https://github.com/kneath/kss GitHub CSS styleguide ...

   GitHub, front end,Tool     2013-03-07 03:46:42

  3 meanings of Stack

We may frequently see stack when we read programming books. But many times we may be confused about the different meanings of it. This term actually has three common meanings. Here we explain the three different meanings of Stack in programming. 1. Data structure The first meaning of Stack defines a method for storing data. Its feature is LIFO9Last In First Out). In this data structure, data are accumulated level by level. The data last put in is added at the top of the stack. When using the dat...

   Stack,Memory,Data structure     2014-02-24 04:56:46

  HTML above flash (transparency + z-index)

We have faced this problem many of the times. When we want to display some message on top of all layers on a page or use some feature like jQuery light boxes. Normally the flash file continues to shine through the page. No matter what you do with layering the dom elements using z-index.See the layering flash content problem definition here.Before this, people used to dodge this issue with some fixes like hiding the flash area completely and then showing a static image of...

   HTML,Flash,Above,z-index,wmode,transpare     2011-05-01 15:46:34

  E-commerce "Whampoa Military Academy" in Guangdong

There are five projects being initiated this year in Guangdong Province to help the young graduates to find jobs or become entrepreneurs, such as providing more internship opportunities to university graduates and setting up total 200 million amount loans to help starting their own business. Among all the announced plans, the “Youth E-Business Elite Plan” attracts the most attention. This plan relies on Taobao University of Guangdong Youth College to train various e-commerce talents...

   e-commerce,Guangdong     2013-04-01 06:49:32

  Will the next generation of iPhone be launched on September 10?

According to AllThingsD, Apple might launch its next generation of iPhone on September 10. There is no detailed information about this new iPhone yet, it's also unknown whether it's a cheap one or other kind of versions. But it will equip with iOS 7 and Apple may launch the next generation of Mac OS--Maverick in next few weeks. Since Apple acquired finger print recognition manufacturer AuthenTec with $356 million and it also applied the finger print unlock patent, so the next generation iPhone ...

   iPhone,iOS 7     2013-08-11 10:06:26

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