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Linux , 3 ways to keep long running processes in background

Mar

5

2023

In Linux, there are several ways to keep a long running process running in the background. Here are a few common methods: Using & to run the command in the background: You can run a command in the background by appending an ampersand (&) to the end of the command. For example, to run a process called myprogram in ...

short and simple Linux .profile status banner 1

Nov

26

2021

Here’s just a short post about a little .profile code snippet I use to help give me a brief system overview upon logging into my accounts.. It produces an output similar to the one below. Now I understand there are tons of little utilities out there like Neofetch (commind line system information tool), that provides ...

web page hot reload in plain JavaScript + Apache & PHP 5

Apr

29

2019

Hot re-loading, that is automatically updating the web page, when its content changes on the server, into the browser is a convenient developer aid for modern tooling like, webpack, AngularJS, ReactJS, VueJS etc. I created super simple way by just adding one JavaScript include at the bottom of your file and it works with a ...

Javascript Server Sent Events SSE easy tutorial demo of (EventSource) 4

Apr

5

2019

This easy to follow tutorial will show you how to stream server data (sometimes called SSE’s, Server Sent Events) , in real-time to your browser. Using Javascript’s EventSource API interface we can seamlessly update and display on a web page real-time server-sent data all without the complexities of setting up a web socket server. Why ...

Top 10 incredibly useful Javascript / Jquery code snippets 2

Mar

21

2019

Here’s my list of 10 useful JavaScript & some Jquery code snippets. The code snippets below are pretty useful and find myself reusing them again and again in all sorts of situations. I have created full-page examples of these snippets, go grab them over at my [icon name=”github” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] Javascript Github Repo Note: For ...

WordPress linux backup script to offsite NAS via Rsync 5

Jul

29

2017

Here’s a simple straightforward bash | shell script that I use for this SITE to easily and routinely backup my Entire Wordpress Site , all its folders and plugins , and the corresponding database. Of course there are dozens of WordPress Backup plugins (such as Backup Buddy; Updraft Plus; BackWpUp ) that do this ...

Lazarus – Discover Windows, Mac & Linux cross platform Development IDE 5

Apr

21

2016

If you’re a developer of a certain age (say north of 35) you will likely have worked with or heard of Visual Basic and to a lesser known extent Delphi IDE (Integrated Development Environment) development platforms. These development IDE’s, were very popular in the mid to late 90’s and ushered in an era or rapid Windows applications ...

genetic algorithms in PHP code example of (evolutionary programming ) 20

Jan

21

2015

This posting and php code sample is about fascinating topic of Genetic Algorithms (GA) which simulate evolution using computer code to help find near-optimal solutions when dealing with problems that involve multiple disparate requirements. I recently began playing with Genetic algorithms (Genetic algorithms GA, for short) which are part of a class of evolutionary algorithms (EA) that make up ...

Shell script code: show oldest | newest file in folder and file age 2

Oct

7

2013

Determining Oldest file and file age Today I had to write a short shell script to help figure out the oldest file in a particular folder, how old that file was (in secs or minutes). This is a pretty common requirement when dealing with file(s) folders such as working directories, where you periodically need to ...