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Processing Forms With phpPress, goPress, rubyPress, and nodePress

Tutorial • Intermediate

Now that you have a website running with phpPress, goPress, rubyPress, and/or nodePress, you might want to process some forms. In this tutorial, I'll show...

Richard Guay • 7 Dec 2016
Web Servers

HTTPie, a Human-Friendly cURL-Like Tool

Tutorial • Beginner

CURL is a commonly used command-line tool for making HTTP requests. In this tutorial, we'll have a look at HTTPie, a command-line tool for making HTTP...

Roy Agasthyan • 1 Dec 2016
Web Servers

WordPress Development With VVV

Tutorial • Beginner

VVV is a preset of the Vagrant configuration geared toward WordPress-centric projects such as developing a theme, a plugin, or contributing to WordPress...

Louie Rootfield • 21 Sep 2016
Yii

How to Program With Yii2: Uploading Files

Tutorial • Intermediate

Learn how to manage file and image uploads in Yii2 with the easiest to use plugins. We'll upgrade our mini-Twitter application with Kartik's FileInput Widget...

Jeff Reifman • 14 Jul 2016
Hosting

Introduction to Docker and Kubernetes

Tutorial • Beginner

Docker and Kubernetes are two technologies that together revolutionize management and orchestration of large-scale distributed systems. Get up to speed on...

Gigi Sayfan • 15 Mar 2016
Web Servers

How to Install WordPress: The Server Software

Tutorial • Beginner

In this article, we're going to cover each of the three main pieces of software that need to be installed, and then we'll cover the various ways they can be...

Tom McFarlin • 5 Feb 2016
Performance

Understanding the Magic of Bloom Filters With Node.js & Redis

Tutorial • Beginner

In this tutorial we will explain the curious properties of Bloom filters and three practical ways to use them: finding unused usernames, checking for stale...

Kyle Davis • 14 Jan 2016
Web Servers

HTML5 Mastery: Encoding

Tutorial • Intermediate

The second part of the "HTML5 Mastery" series focuses on the content transfer of documents and the determination of encoding rules. We look at text encoding...

Florian Rappl • 3 Dec 2015
Hosting

An Introduction to Learning and Using DNS Records

Tutorial • Beginner

What's the difference between an A record and a CNAME? Why does my email need an MX record? Why does Google require a TXT record? We'll tell you why.

Jeff Reifman • 3 Nov 2015
Hosting

How to Monitor Docker-Based Applications Using New Relic

Tutorial • Intermediate

Using Docker, you can separate parts of your application and deploy them confidently. At the same time, monitoring what happens inside these containers can...

Jarkko Laine • 6 Oct 2015
Testing

Jenkins Workflow: Scripting Out Complex Builds

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this second and final part of the series, learn how the Jenkins Workflow plugin allows you to use scripting to create complex Jenkins builds.

Ian Lollar • 30 Sep 2015
Web Servers

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Docker and Modulus

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this tutorial, we're going to be taking a look a the history of containerization, Docker, its components, and how to get started using it in our day to...

Hüseyin Babal • 30 Sep 2015