In a previous post I discussed how we can use Configuration API in .net core console application to retrieve custom configuration settings from a Json file. Although this example is...
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catalogs a collection of software design patterns commonly used when developing enterprise software applications...
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I am predominantly a Linux and MacOS in my home office and usually make use of Windows Virtual Machines for my Windows based development. I have always made use of...
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Quick easy to follow instructions to installing and using Evernote on your Linux computers....
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Business Agility: Sustainable Prosperity in a Relentlessly Competitive World The relentless pursuit of industrial efficiency no longer yields the profits it once did because it requires a level of business predictability...
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Why Agile methodologies are not always the answer to project management problems....
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How working with NDepends helps developers to better and quickly understand legacy code bases....
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Angular 2 has become an extremely popular JavaScript framework for creating web applications. This guide walks you through what you need to get started....
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The basic premise behind Tasktop Sync Gateway is that it enables to connect the various tools within your typical DevOps stack, with ease. Prior to Tasktop Gateway, the various...
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Software is an essential component of many businesses these days. Many organisations only exist due to software that has enabled them to provide services and products that were not ...
Read MoreHomebrew is the most popular package manager for Mac OS X. Homebrew Cask extends Homebrew with support for quickly installing Mac applications like Google Chrome, VLC, and more. Find out...
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Node quickly became an established, viable and efficient web development platform. JavaScript on server environments was somewhat of a novelty and full stack JavaScript had never really been seriously considered.What...
Read More There are two primary ways to use Node.js on your development machines: by using the Node Shell or by saving JavaScript to files and using node to execute them. Node Shell The...
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If you’re setting up an installation of WordPress on a new server or desktop and you’re using Apache2 web server. You may come across a situation that your PermaLinks don’t function as expected.
This situation may well be caused by the fact that you have not configured your Apache2 web server correctly. There are 4 steps involved to overcome the issue of permalinks on wordpress not working.
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Read More In this post I will provide instructions to install WordPress on ubuntu server. This tutorial is aimed at those users who may want to install WordPress on a virtual server for development purposes.
As a remote freelance software developer, I spend the vast majority of my life connected to the internet in some shape or form. In fact the internet is pretty much...
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Modern Software applications are required to connect across different machines , User Interfaces (UI) and provide data to other applications in the form of services. To enable this software...
Read More(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});I wanted to update my LibreOffice application suite on my Ubuntu desktop. The news on 5 August 2015 that The Document Foundation (TDF) announced the release...
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I needed to upgrade my existing desktop computer, I just needed a little more power than my faithful old Dell OPTIPLEX 745 was providing. Although it is still able to...
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I have recently purchased my new Viglen Desktop Computer from ebuyer. It has arrived with Ubuntu 14.04 pre-installed, which is just awesome. However, as with any new machine getting it set up just the way I want to be productive does take a bit of time. In order to speed up this process I have been developing a number of BASH scripts, that I repeatedly run to install skype on ubuntu desktop.
Node.js Package Manager (NPM) , is an is an online repository for the publishing of open-source Node.js projects, and a command-line utility for interacting with said repository that aids in package installation, version management, and dependency management. Essentially what this tools enables you to do is easily and quickly make use of the plethora of nodejs packages being developed on a daily basis. NPM enables the community to share and contribute to reusable javascript code libraries to help others with common software development problems.
I don’t usually do this, however this time I just couldn’t resist. I just had to respond to such an ill thought out, badly researched and the be honest just completely full of fallacies piece of journalism. In the piece, Five reasons why the office isn’t such a bad place to be, attempting to identify why working from home is a bad idea. However, all that was brought to attention were the incorrect stereotypes associated with working from home.
In this post I will discuss the basics of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), focusing on What is SEO and some simple strategies you can implement on your blog to improve its performance in Search Engine rankings. I have learned over the past year or so regarding SEO while running my blog. When I initially started this blog, I knew very little about SEO, other than I potentially needed to do it on my blog and apparently it was an expensive exercise to undergo.
Through a bit of research, I discovered that there are a lot of charlatans and downright dirty criminals operating in this specific area of the internet. I figured out that if I didn’t want to get ripped off by these snake oil salesman, I best get familiar with this area and attempt to learn the basics. I thought I would share my experience and knowledge I have gained over the past year to help anyone who is embarking an any new internet project.
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I just read two of Scott Hanselman's blog posts , Being a Remote Worker Sucks - Long Live the Remote Worker and Tragedies of the Remote Worker: "Looks like you're...
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The small steps you can take ensure the security of your small business. There seems to be a lot of hype in the media at the moment about eminent of cyber...
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It doesn’t take a university degree or a deep understanding of socio-economics to work out, that by combining two words together like home automation , that home automation must have something to with automating a residential dwelling.
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Frequently connecting to multiple servers or computer workstations over a Remote Desktop Connections, introduces problems of trying to remembering various connections details, credentials and settings.You'll be glad to know that...
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Read MoreThe National Crime Agency (NCA) issued an alert last week, Two-week opportunity for UK to reduce threat from powerful computer attack , and as such gave the country a two week period to protect itslef from the virus that could give hackers access to sensitive information, which potentionally could cost the UK economy millions of pounds.
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});HomePlug adaptors, or Powerline adaptors as they are also referred too, have been around since 2001, radically simplify home networking.HomePlug adaptors are a computer networking technology...
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Ubuntu 14.04 – Trusty Tahr – is the latest Long Term Support release of ubuntu from Canonical, this means that this release has 5 years of support and security updates. This makes it a great release to use for business purposes.
In this post we’ve provide some advice on what to do to configure your desktop for optimum use within a small business environment, to ensure you’ve got everything you need when you need it.
For most people the home is sanctuary, a place they are able to disconnect from the world outside. It is also the biggest asset most people will purchase in their life times. However, maintaining a home can be a burden for time starved busy families.
Once considered to be an ideal only the future generations would acheive, a smart home is pretty much a possibility today. The reason for this are partly because over the last 30 years computer technology has changed the way we work, changed the way we communicate, it’s even changed the way we socialise.
Technology is everywhere, it stands to reason that technology will now really start to change our homes. The key objective of any technology is minimize or eliminate time wasted on repetitive and boring household chores.
HomePlug or PowerLine is a computer network technology, which uses special network adapter plug which implements a filter to transfer a network signal over your home’s existing electrical infrastructure.
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