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“grep” is a command you can use in a terminal to find sequences of characters. It can search through entire folders and find matches. If you use the right parameters, it will display all the matches it finds. Before simply typing the command, however, you should know it might need a long time to comb …
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A terminal is used to communicate commands to your computer. It’s the most basic form of telling it what to do. Practically, when you use a mouse to click on a file to open it, this is simply a Graphic User Interface (GUI) that converts that action into a terminal command in the background. In …
Git helps you synchronize and track changes to a folder with its subfolders. A website is basically a folder on a server somewhere. In the folder are subfolders, images, text documents, databases and such. Git makes it possible to synchronize the content of the folders, take a portion out to fiddle with, and then merge …
I just started this website a short while ago and the default URL “slug” is was ugly: I’d expected it to be something much simpler, but that’s not what the default is. It isn’t too difficult to change this, though. Here’s the ideal url slug structure I’m aiming for: language category – /speak/ (no, that’s …
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One of the most confusing things of starting off as a developer is the mind-boggling amount of logins and passwords you need to work. The term “google” means lots and lots, and it seems a developer needs about one or two google passwords… It’s largely due to the decentralized nature of the internet. There isn’t …
Local is WordPress’s answer to developers seeking to set up a local server on their computer. A local server is needed to perform the server’s tasks when a webpage is called up on the computer’s browser. So since I’ve been going about learning web development all backwards (after tweaking websites with the “inspect mode”, my …
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Just started a website and eager to make it look and work better? Here is the first set of tools you’ll need to start digging through the spaghetti of code that’s hidden behind the back-office interface. The browser I’ve got four that I use for normal work: Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Tor. I like Firefox …
Several different software packages make it possible to open and run a local server on your computer for you to test website development on. XAMPP, MAMP, Wamp, and others are available. Most are free but paying unlocks more features. XAMPP has probably been around for longest. New ones include VVV, which somehow is directly related …
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This is because a website is more than just a static folder on a computer: there are some dynamic parts, too, that change all the time depending on what device is used or who is accessing the site, for instance. Two tools work together to display the webpage you see: the browser you’re using on …
This are the steps to set up a repository between a website hosted on a server and a folder on your local computer. First, git must be set up on both the server and the local computer On the local computer, it’s easy, I just installed Github and that was it. I had created a …
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