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Month: December 2019

Programming Tutorials

Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Groovy

December 31, 2019 Erik Karlsson Programming, Tutorials

Apache Groovy is a powerful, optionally typed and dynamic language, with static-typing and static compilation. We recommend these Groovy tutorials.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: exa – replacement for ls

December 30, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

exa is a replacement for the venerable ls command. exa sports more features and arguably better defaults than ls.

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Programming Tutorials

Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Swift

December 26, 2019 Erik Karlsson Programming, Tutorials

Swift is a powerful, general-purpose programming language for the OS X, iOS, watchOS, and Linux operating systems. Read our recommended Swift tutorials.

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Programming Tutorials

Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Assembly

December 24, 2019 Erik Karlsson Programming, Tutorials

An assembly language is a low-level programming language for a computer, or other programmable device. Read our recommended Assembly tutorials.

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LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2019

December 23, 2019 Steve Emms Software, System Software

We’ve run through our statistics, and found our ten most well received posts/series that saw the highest page views for 2019.

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Programming Tutorials

Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Ruby

December 19, 2019 Erik Karlsson Programming, Tutorials

Ruby is a general purpose, scripting, structured, flexible, fully object-oriented programming language

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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Viewing PDFs – Week 9

December 18, 2019 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop

In this week’s blog, Luke puts a wide range of PDF viewers under the microscope on the Raspberry Pi 4. How do they compare to the pre-installed solutions offered by Raspbian?

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Programming Books

3 Excellent Books to Learn Elixir

December 17, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Elixir is a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications. Here’s our recommended free books to learn Elixir.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: nyancat – Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat Animation

December 16, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews

nyancat is an animated, color, ANSI-text program that renders a loop of the classic Nyan Cat animation. It’s free and open source candy.

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Golly – exploring cellular automata like the Game of Life

December 13, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Scientific, Software

Golly is a free and open source cross-platform application for exploring Conway’s Game of Life and many other types of cellular automata.

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Programming Tutorials

Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn PHP

December 12, 2019 Erik Karlsson Programming, Tutorials

PHP is an extremely popular, interpreted scripting language that is ideally suited for web development. Read our recommended PHP tutorials.

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Remote Display

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Remote Desktop – Week 8

December 11, 2019 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop

Remote Desktop Control displays the screen of another computer on a local screen. For this article, the local screen is a Windows machine, the host is the RPI4.

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Programming Tutorials

Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn JavaScript

December 10, 2019 Erik Karlsson Programming, Tutorials

JavaScript is an interpreted, prototype-based, scripting computer programming language. Here’s our recommended tutorials to learn JavaScript.

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gorss

gorss – simple RSS/Atom reader written in Golang

December 9, 2019 Steve Emms Internet, Reviews, Utilities

gorss is a simple free and open source RSS/Atom reader. It’s written in the Golang language. The program offers support for highlighting specific words.

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Programming Tutorials

Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn C#

December 5, 2019 Erik Karlsson Programming, Tutorials

C# is a multi-purpose computer programming language suitable for a wide variety of development needs. Here’s our recommended C# tutorials.

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Raspberry Pi 4 e-book tools

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – e-book Tools – Week 7

December 4, 2019 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop, Utilities

This week’s Raspberry Pi 4 blog focuses on excellent free and open source e-book software that runs on this single-board computer.

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Programming Tutorials

Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn C++

December 3, 2019 Erik Karlsson Programming, Tutorials

C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, portable, compiled, general-purpose programming language. Read our recommended C++ tutorials.

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Gemini

Gemini – audio player with wallpaper changer

December 2, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Gemini is a simple audio player that sports an integrated wallpaper changer.

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