UNIX was originally developed in 1969 as a multi user, multi tasking operating system by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Initially, it was developed in Bell laboratories at AT&T. UNIX has gained much popularity in the past forty years and at present has established itself as a flexible, secure and powerful operating system. UNIX is best known for its stability…
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If you are notified of an urgent network problem immediately after it occurs, that will minimize the risk of the damages and the cost for the recovery. Right after the implementation of the Zabbix system as introduced in my previous post “Zabbix: integrated monitoring solution – implementation guide”, you can send an error message via STMP server, which is, however,…
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Zabbix is an open source monitoring system that manages hardware and server programs on a network. It uses a database for monitoring, different types of RDBMS (MySQL is recommended), Apache, PHP for interface. Zabbix alone can perform functions (e.g., configuration, monitoring, and alerting) required to ensure security. It is easy to extend the functionality with an external script, which will meet…
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The choice of theme is one of the most important for web development with WordPress. The first choice would be the default twenty ten or a premade one, but you might want to make your own designed for your working site. Plug-ins can make your web development easier. If you are not happy with the default configuration, you can make…
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Dear programmers all around the world. Have you ever experienced problems like this? What is the difference between <br> and <br />? It beats me. My boss told me I live in the Stone Age when I tagged an error message with a <font>, an important part with a <b>. He also nagged me about using bullets points for itemization….
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Note this app is for OSX only. Whether you are a PHP programmer or a RoR developer there are times when you want you a local development environment. RoR makes it easy with it’s built in server, and for PHP programmers packages such as XAMPP or MAMP also make things easy to test and smooth the development process. However one common…
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You got money? You know, both Ruby and Rails are open sourced, and free. Why don’t you spend some money on good resources? I don’t mind paying for what’s worth. Many think and claim that everything should be free, but there are many things that cannot be done without charging. Agile Web Development with Rails (4th edition) I hope that…
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Factory Girl 2 Factory Girl is a popular fixture replacement gem. It has got modular just like RSpec. If you are using Rails 3, make sure to check Factory Girl Rails. The GitHub README.rdoc serves as a good documentation. I don’t particularly look at the code, but the README is handy. If you are still using fixtures, just dump them and…
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