Introduction cron is a utility that you can use to schedule and automate tasks. By defining items in the cron table, called crontab, you can schedule any script or program to run on almost any sort of schedule. A few examples: Download RSS feeds daily at 6:30am, Run a program 5 minutes after midnight on […]
Here are some tips and tricks to help Mac users adjust to Ubuntu and Linux. I was a die hard Mac user ever since OS X was released in 2001. The combination of a Unix core and real desktop apps was a perfect match for desktop and development. However times change, with Apple’s focus on […]
An integrated development environment (IDE) such as PHPStorm, Eclipse or Netbeans provides a set of tools and integrations available together to make development easier. Common features are: Text Editor Project search and replace Automatic building, testing, linting Source control integration The command-line meets all of these features. Editor First, my text editor is vim. I […]
With the latest Creative Update on Windows you can run a full Linux environment, without the need of a virtual machine or other container system. It’s Linux on Windows, and it is pretty nice. The following instructions are how to setup WordPress on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), it also sometimes called Bash on Windows, […]
My review of the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop (2017). My two previous laptops were the Macbook Pro 15″ (Late 2013), and Thinkpad X1 Carbon (2012, 1st gen). So much of the comparisons will be to those two. My main debate was between the XPS 13 and Thinkpad X1 Carbon, a few reasons I […]