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CronTab Basic Commands With Examples
Cron is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like operating systems, which is used to automate repetitive tasks. It is a daemon (a background process) that runs continuously and executes commands at specified times, called cronjobs. A cronjob can be any command, script or program that needs to be executed at a specific time or interval. The crontab is a file...
Basic PowerShell Commands That You Should Know
One of the key benefits of PowerShell is its object-oriented nature. Instead of working with text-based output like traditional command-line interfaces, PowerShell returns objects that can be easily manipulated using its built-in cmdlets (pronounced "command-lets"). This makes it easy to automate complex tasks, as administrators can pipe the output of one cmdlet to another, building up a chain of...
How To Always Open Files in New Tab in VSCode
The VSCode has rocketed its way to one of the top development IDEs due to its fresh look, usability, tons of feature sets, and customization options besides being very lightweight. But such extensive customization options at times do overwhelm the user and sometimes make it a tedious task to find the precise customization option to tweak to meet your...
How To Install Oh-My-Posh On Windows PowerShell
Oh-My-Posh is a powerful custom prompt engine for any shell that has the ability to adjust the prompt string with a function or variable. It does not only beautify the terminal, but it also increases the work efficiency by adding lot of features related to usability, hints, history etc. It also comes with a good number of pre-built themes...
Common OpenSSH Commands Reference
Secure Shell, sometimes referred to as Secure Socket Shell (SSH), is a protocol which allows you to connect securely to a remote computer or a server by using a text-based interface. OpenSSH is an an open source SSH tool—widely used for Linux distributions. The same OpenSSH tool is also supplied/packaged by default with Git and enables Git authentication via...
Why WordPress Installation Ends Up with latest version?
1. Why You Need Older WordPress Versions Of course, running the latest version of WordPress is the best option for any website, but at times, there could be specific scenarios that may require working with an ‘older’ version of WordPress. For example, a very common scenario is when you may want to test a WordPress version upgrade on your localhost...
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HP Borland’s Silk Test for Multi-Channel Testing
The growing web and mobile applications have posed several challenges for software QA teams. While usability and...
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How To Concatenate Strings in Java
Introduction In Java, a String is a sequence of characters. There are often programming situations where you will...
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Common Issues with HP Load Runner
HP Load Runner is a popular automated load and performance testing tool that emulates actual load to...
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Java Tutorial #4 – Control Statements
Introduction Control statements are used to change the flow of execution based on changes to certain variables in...
Maven CLI Options and Switches Reference
Maven offers a good set of commands and CLI Options to carry out wide range of Dev tasks. Most of these commands are in fact Maven build life cycles, phases and goals. Here is a list of common Maven commands along with explanation. But before we go through the Maven commands, it is good idea to understand the structure or...
How To Set XAMPP To Run As-Admin By Default
Why run XAMPP as-admin The XAMPP is recommended to be executed as-admin as it requires running a couple of system services such as Apache, MySQL etc. Also if you have not installed Apache or MySQL as system services, the XAMPP services may still require to access and operate custom system ports especially port 1024 and above which may again require...
How To Create Dashboards with Jira
What is a Jira Dashboard? The Jira dashboard is like a control panel for your projects. You can create several dashboards for each project you work on, or you can view your system in different ways. Furthermore, Jira has some advanced apps and gadgets that allow you to keep track of your projects and related issues. The development teams can...
How To Install XAMPP on Windows
What is XAMPP The full form of XAMPP stands for Cross-platform, Apache, MariaDB (MySQL), PHP and Perl. It is one of the simplest and lightweight local servers or more precisely a package of bundled open-source software containing standard web development tools to develop/test your website locally. It is available as open-source software created by Apache Friends and is very common among...
How To Create Maven Project in Eclipse With Archetype
Maven Basics Maven automates the steps involved in building a software application like adding the JAR files, compiling code, running unit tests, creating the output jar/war file, etc. This makes the code less error-prone. Maven uses an XML configuration file known as the POM file. Developers need to specify information like the JAR files required by an application, the type...
Types of Linux Shell Sessions
(A) Login Shell A login shell is a shell where you login, either via the terminal or via SSH. If the user first logs in into a terminal session or SSH via authentication, such a shell session will be considered as a login shell. In other words, a login session is a shell session that starts by authenticating or identifying the user. Login...
How To Create Maven Project in Eclipse Without Archetype
Maven is a very popular build and dependency management tool. Eclipse is an IDE that helps developers write and run Java code easily. In this article, I will be explaining how you can create a Maven project in Eclipse. Maven Basics Maven automates the steps involved in building a software application like adding the JAR files, compiling code, running unit tests,...
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How To Read Windows Environment Variables With VBScript
Reading an environment variable is simple. There are a couple of methods available to do this but the...
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How To Write Windows Environment Variables With VBScript
This is in continuation to the last post where we saw how to read windows environment variables using...
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Concatenate Strings Using StringBuffer.append()
In addition to String, Java has the java.lang.StringBuffer and java.lang.StringBuilder classes. These can also be used to concatenate...
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