Python list is a sequence of values, it can be any type, strings, numbers, floats, mixed content, or whatever. In this post, we will talk about Python list functions and how to create, add elements, append, reverse, and many other Python list functions.   Create Python Lists To create a python list, enclose your elements […]

One of the significant advantages when using Python is the large amount of the available modules, we can say that there are python modules for almost everything you need. You need to work with robots, or some hardware in a spaceship, you will find a Python module for that. In this post, we will talk […]

Python is a popular and a powerful scripting language that can do everything, you can do web crawling, networking tools, scientific tools, Raspberry PI programming, Web development, video games, and much more. With Python programming, you can do even system programming regardless the platform you are using. Two days ago, a Russian friend was searching […]

In the previous post, we talked about iOS language basics and we saw how easy it is to work with Swift language. In this post, we will learn how to work with Xcode and how to develop iOS apps using Swift. Today we will start with a hello world app, so let’s get started.   […]

Swift is a very easy programming language to learn as its syntax is easy to follow. In this iOS Swift tutorial, we will cover some of the Swift language fundamentals and we will see how EASY it is to develop using Swift programming language. Before we start building iOS apps, we need to understand the […]

In the previous post, we talked about writing practical shell scripts and we saw how it is easy to write a shell script. Today we are going to talk about a tool that does magic to our shell scripts, that tool is the Expect command or Expect scripting language. Expect command or expect scripting language is […]

In the last post, we talked about regular expressions and we saw how to use them in sed and awk for text processing, and we discussed before Linux sed command and awk command. During the series, we wrote small shell scripts, but we didn’t mix things up, I think we should take a small step further […]

In order to successfully work with the Linux sed editor and the awk command in your shell scripts, you have to understand regular expressions or in short regex. Since there are many engines for regex, we will use the shell regex and see the bash power in working with regex. First, we need to understand […]

In the previous post, we talked about sed command and we saw many examples of using it in text processing and we saw how it is good in this, but it has some limitations. Sometimes you need a more advanced tool for manipulating data, one that provides a more programming-like environment, giving you more control […]

In the previous post, we talked about bash functions and how to use them from the command line directly and we saw some other cool stuff. Today we will talk about a very useful tool for string manipulation called sed or sed Linux command. Sed is used to work with text files like log files, […]

If you want to send or receive an email, you should have a mail server capable of sending and receiving emails across the Internet. In this post, we will discuss Linux mail server and how the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) works as well as other mail-related protocols, like Post Office Protocol (POP) and Internet […]

Linux proxy server or proxy server generally is a server that caches the internet. The client connects to the proxy server with a request, the proxy server will connect to the internet or another caching server and cache the pages retrieved, then return the cached pages to the client. A proxy server has many advantages. […]

Linux Samba server is one of the powerful servers that helps you to share files and printers with Windows-based PCs and other operating systems, it’s an open-source implementation of the Server Message Block/Common Internet File System (SMB/CIFS) protocols.   How SMB Works To understand Linux/Samba/Windows relationship, you need to understand the relationships of the operating […]

The Linux virtual file system or virtual file system generally is a layer that sits on the top of your actual file system which allows the user to access different types of file systems, you can think of virtual file system as an interface between the kernel and the actual file system. That means you […]

In this post, we will talk about Linux web server and how to install it and configure it to serve you content to others. A web server is a system that manipulates requests via HTTP protocol, you request a file from the server and it responds with the requested file, which might give you an […]

Hard drive encryption is a process of converting your readable data into something unreadable to protect it. With hard drive encryption, you will prevent unauthorized access to your data. There are two types of hard drive encryption: Software-based encryption Hardware-based encryption In this post, we will talk about the software-based solutions. Most implementations of hard […]

Viewing the clipboard actions ( copy paste ) in Windows is a very easy thing to achieve, but before we talk about how to do that, we need to know a very important thing about clipboard viewers. Clipboard Managers Are Risky Some clipboard viewers send the copied data over the internet, not for bad purposes, but […]

In this post, we will convert an array to object using PHP hydrator pattern. This method is so simple, it’s about transferring data from one place to another. We will define a class that will take an array and an object as inputs and search for all set() methods in the object and fills it […]

If you want to process large files using PHP, you may use some of the ordinary PHP functions like file_get_contents() or file() which has a limitation when working with very large files. Memory Limitation These functions rely on the memory_limit setting in php.ini file, you may increase the value but these functions still are not […]

If you want to use a package in Laravel, you simply add a single line in composer.json file and the job is done. This is because the package is available in packagist.org, what if the package that you want to use is a non-Composer Laravel package? Maybe available on a git repo or a private […]

Many websites give their users a custom subdomain for their profiles or pages, so instead of accessing the user’s profile athttp://website.com/users/50, the user can access his profile page at http://username.website.com  which is much better. In this post, we will see how to make dynamic Laravel subdomain routing easily. Configure DNS To make this trick, […]

Laravel framework has a powerful protection from CSRF, XSS, and SQL injection, but there is no built-in Laravel spam protection. If you need to protect your form from spam bots, you can use something like Akismet or reCaptcha which provide strong spam protection. OK, but your users maybe don’t like it because of the nag […]