Soccer, Joke and Java

You search on Google every day, and as a programmer, you would probably search on GitHub every day. Are you sure you know how to search GitHub repositories effectively? Let’s check out these 7 tips you probably didn’t know.

11 brothers and sisters departed for China in the past two weeks, and today I just found my heart was emptied and filled with sadness. After living and working together for about 4 years, remembering the happy and hard days we experienced together, it’s just overwhelming and I had to pray a lot both for them and for myself.

No matter what programming language you are learning, Fibonacci numbers calculation is just too classic to skip. It seems very easy to implement, but also can be deep enough to catch up with, especially when the number is super big. Have you thought that ever before?

We will begin from an interesting comment in the source code of SQLite, and end with Monastery, Saint Benedict, and Code of Ethics. I am not joking, seriously.

As a Java guy now I use IDEA most of the time, I’ve been using eclipse for about 6 years in the past but now I rarely open it. However, I still use NetBeans when I need to do some Swing stuff, as it provides the best GUI builder user experience in my perspective. From Sun to Oracle, now moving to Apache, after a long time of silence, Apache Netbeans 10.0 was released on Dec 27th, 2018. Wanna get a try, man?

The end of 2018 is close and it’s time to set up goals of 2019. As for me, it’s super clear - I want to make the best Java tutorial for beginners. Texts, videos, exercises will be prepared carefully, precisely covering the most important topics of Java programming based on market research. I will leverage my 10 years experience in software engineering to make your learning experience friendly, funny, and challenging. Remember, it will be released at Easter, 2019.

Just came home from GNIT SF monthly gathering and I was deeply grateful for the community life. This Christmas has some special meaning to me and very likely I will always remember it.

Yeah, I just finished week 1 assignment of Algorithms, Part I about percolation, but why the hack this post trying to talk about Predestination and Freewill, a religious topic that would be super boring? OK. Calm down, calm down and watch this video first, my friend. It’s a silent film lasts only 20 seconds.

Algorithms, Part I at Coursera by Princeton University would be the best online Algorithms course I’ve ever enrolled in. I highly recommend you to take a look, though there are 5 things I don’t want to - or at least hesitate to tell you about it.

We have done things right, now it’s time to do things faster. We would keep Donald Knuth‘s warning in mind, “We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil”.