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Month: August 2019

System Administration

Essential System Tools: hyperfine – command-line benchmarking tool

August 30, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software

hyperfine is a command-line benchmarking tool. It’s designed to measure the full execution time of a program. This open source tool is written in Rust.

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Programming Books

23 Excellent Free Books to Learn Perl

August 29, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

The popularity of a book is influenced by personal feelings, tastes, and opinions. Programming books accord to this general rule. There is a wide range of Perl books. Here’s our recommended free Perl books.

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5 Excellent Free Books to Learn Pascal

August 27, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Pascal is an imperative and procedural programming language designed in the late 1960s by Niklaus Wirth to teach structured programming using subprograms called procedures and functions.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: ASCIIQuarium – embrace marine life from the terminal

August 26, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

ASCIIQuarium is a short Perl script that lets you embrace aquatic nature from your terminal. It’s an aquarium/sea animation in ASCII art.

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Programming Books

12 Excellent Free Books to Learn Go

August 22, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Go is a compiled, statically typed programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. This article selects the best open source books that will give readers a firm foundation in developing Go applications.

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5 Excellent Free Books to Learn Groovy

August 20, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Apache Groovy is a powerful, optionally typed and dynamic language, with static-typing and static compilation capabilities, for the Java platform aimed at improving developer productivity thanks to a concise, familiar and easy to learn syntax.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: WallGen – image generator tool

August 19, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Let’s start our candy adventure with WallGen. It’s a small command-line utility that generates HQ poly wallpapers with only a few text arguments for inputs. Depending on these arguments, you can create shape-based patterns, randomly filled surfaces, and even image-based patterns.

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Violin

Violin – minimalistic desktop music player

August 16, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Violin is billed as a fast, lightweight, and minimalistic desktop music player. It’s cross-platform software running on Linux, MacOS, and Windows. Here’s Luke view of this music player.

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Programming Books

3 Excellent Free Books to Learn Swift

August 15, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Swift is a powerful and intuitive general-purpose programming language for the OS X, iOS, watchOS, and Linux operating systems. It’s developed by Apple Inc. Swift is intended to be more resilient to erroneous code (“safer”) than Objective-C, and more concise.

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7 Excellent Free Books to Learn X86 Assembly

August 13, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Assembly language is also used primarily for direct hardware manipulation, access to specialized processor instructions, or to address critical performance issues. Assembly is excellent for speed optimization.

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IFStile

IFStile – Iterated Function Systems – visualize substitution tilings

August 12, 2019 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Software

IFStile is software that generates fractals using the Iterated Function System. It’s freeware (not open source) software.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: peco – interactive filtering tool

August 9, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

peco is a CLI utility that filters text interactively. The tool is written in the Go programming language. It’s free and open source software.

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Programming Books

9 Excellent Free Books to Learn PHP

August 6, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

PHP is an extremely popular, interpreted scripting language that is ideally suited for web development and as a general-purpose programming language.

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Music Visualization

cli-visualizer – command line visualizer for MPD, ALSA and PulseAudio

August 5, 2019 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

cli-visualizer is a command line visualizer inspired by C.A.V.A, ncmpcpp, and rainbow. It’s free and open source software.

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Programming Books

8 Excellent Free Books to Learn SQL

August 4, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Structured Query Language (SQL) is a specialized programming language originally developed by IBM in the early 1970s. The language is designed specifically for accessing and manipulating data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS).

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Programming Books

18 Excellent Free Books to Learn JavaScript

August 3, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

JavaScript is possibly one of the easiest language to get up and running with. But to truly master the language requires a firm foundation of its intricacies. This compilation of free books ticks all the boxes.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: LanguageTool – style and grammar checker for 30+ languages

August 2, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

LanguageTool is a free and open source proofreading tool for English, German, Spanish, Russian, and more than 25 other languages.

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Programming Books

5 Excellent Free Books to Learn C#

August 1, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

C# (pronounced “See Sharp”) is a multi-purpose computer programming language suitable for a wide variety of development needs. Here’s my recommended books to learn C#.

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