Ubuntu Server: How to Create a Symbolic Link
Just as a quick note to myself because I’m doing this more often in server setups these days (which nevertheless is still infrequent enough that...
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Windows: How to Comment out a Line in a Batch File
January 27, 2014
by Craig Lotter
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As a reminder to myself so that I don’t have to Google it each and every time I need to work on a Windows Server...
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Ubuntu Server: How to Attach and Mount a Hard Drive
January 24, 2014
by Craig Lotter
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The other day we needed to pull data off a restored VM running an older LTS version of Ubuntu Server. My IT contact helpfully attached...
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How to Delete a Folder using the Windows Command Line
May 30, 2013
by Craig Lotter
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If you find yourself stuck in the Windows Command line environment and have an itching desire to delete some of your folders, here is the...
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How to Create a Zend Framework Project that Uses Modules
April 1, 2011
by Craig Lotter
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If your website can be logically split into a number of different functionalities, it makes sense to group those functionalities accordingly. In Zend terminology we...
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How to Create a Zend Project from the Command Line with zf
March 16, 2011
by Craig Lotter
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To generate an empty project shell using the Zend Framework is pretty easy thanks to the powerful zf command line utility.
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How to Start or Stop MySQL Server on Ubuntu via the Command Line
July 7, 2010
by Craig Lotter
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To stop a MySQL server instance on an Ubuntu linux install via the command line is as simple as entering:
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Ubuntu Terminal: How to Quickly Create a SQL Dump File from a MySQL Database
July 5, 2010
by Craig Lotter
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Backing up your MySQL database or generating a copy of it to shift around is quite a simple affair thanks to the powerful mysqldump command...
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Ubuntu Terminal: How to Quickly GZip a File
July 1, 2010
by Craig Lotter
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File archiving is a particularly simple affair and there are quite a few different archive algorithms to pick and choose from. GZip (.gz) has for...
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Ubuntu Lucid Lynx: Simple Way to Mount a Samba Drive in Your Home Directory
June 24, 2010
by Craig Lotter
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Samba is a fantastic free software re-implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol that allows for shared file and print services across a variety of Windows...
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