Monthly Archives: March 2014

MySql on Command Line Primer Tutorial

Today’s tutorial follows up on MySql Stored Procedures Primer Tutorial as shown below, to illustrate that MySql database (and PHP server-side language) are friends of the command line, and you can use all these tools in batch processing, even though … Continue reading

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PHP/Javascript Three to Six Letter Game Tutorial

Do you like word games? Today’s game tests your vocabulary skills in English. It uses English words, based on the dictionary arrangements at its (web) server. Maybe it would be a good game to help improve English vocabulary skills. Programmers … Continue reading

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Java Command Line Arguments Primer Tutorial

If you are writing a batch process and have reached a process part requiring a compiled program (perhaps because this part has some CPU grunt associated with it) you can do a lot worse than use Java and allow user … Continue reading

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Web Server Access Primer Tutorial

When you maintain a Web Server there are lots of tools of use, but just what do you need to run an Apache/PHP/MySql web server? … Who’s smart idea was this? … … sun comes up … … sun goes … Continue reading

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Linux Monitor Processes Primer Tutorial

Linux (or Unix) servers have a “top” command for monitoring processes. It’s top … chortle, chortle. When you are analyzing performance it can be that a live monitoring of a web server, for instance, might tell you more than a … Continue reading

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PHP/Javascript/HTML DateTime Period Primer Tutorial

Today’s tutorial shows some PHP and Javascript functionality building on a Yahoo Answers question asking about date (difference) functionality using PHP. There always appear to be lots of functionality in computer languages to do with dates and times, and that … Continue reading

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Yahoo YQL Yahoo News Tutorial

Here is a tutorial that may be introducing you to the Yahoo Web Services called YQL, building on the previous previous relevant YQL Server tutorials starting with Yahoo YQL Web Service JSON Next Tutorial as shown below. Today we show … Continue reading

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PHP/Javascript Find Those Words Game Tutorial

Do you like word games? Today’s game tests your vocabulary skills in English. It uses English words, based on the dictionary arrangements at its (web) server. Maybe it would be a good game to help learn even more English vocabulary. … Continue reading

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