Tag Archives: unix

Mac OS X MAMP Timekeeping Web Application Primer Tutorial

Sometimes when you program, especially for administrative type functionality, there are useful programs to write, that are able to become web applications, but in a limited set of platforms. So it is today with our timekeeping web application that relies … Continue reading

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Landing Page Cut to the Chase Primer Tutorial

A lot of people learning programming are trying to get information quickly, and “move on”, shall we say. While this is all well and good, it might be a “fob job” to think that many of us will really learn … Continue reading

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Linux vi Buffer Sort Primer Tutorial

The Linux (or unix) command vi is a powerful command line editor tool which has a long history with unix, may have a long learning curve for beginners, perhaps. Our last tutorial about the vi command line text editor was … Continue reading

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Mac OS X Users and Groups Primer Tutorial

Underpinning a Mac OS X MacBook Pro laptop’s workings is a Linux or Unix-like BSD operating system. This operating system, like a lot of others, uses files that have permissions and ownership. If you have file permissions they are for … Continue reading

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Mac Finder Copy Paste Move Rename Tutorial

We’ve said before how similar and similarly useful are the Windows Explorer and Mac (OS X) Finder desktop applications on a desktop or laptop computer, when we presented Mac Finder and Windows Explorer Primer Tutorial all that time ago. So, … Continue reading

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Crontab Web Server Housekeeping Primer Tutorial

We really love to use batch processes and Linux or Unix crontab methods to do things. Guess maybe a lot of people of a certain age … cough, cough … feel quite comfortable around the bigger computer items like web … Continue reading

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PHP Port Process Primer Tutorial

When there is a concept that somehow links hardware to software things fall into place better for me, personally, with understanding. For me, this is because hardware is that interesting thing out there that is more unknown, and so much … Continue reading

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Linux Disk Usage Statistics Primer Tutorial

There are occasions when using a Linux or Unix operating system when it is gobsmacking how a two letter command can do so much. And so it is the case with our use of the “du” to display disk usage … Continue reading

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