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Learn how to create a web database app in ASP.NET Core using Visual Studio and the C# language. This tutorial will show you how to : – Use the MVC (Model View Controller) design pattern. – Configure database tables using the Entity framework. – Setup of classes as models. Customize Razor forms. – Create methods…
If you ever used a desktop Linux system, you must have seen this screen. This is called the GRUB screen. Yes, it is written in all capital letters. Remember this screen? This is GRUB In this chapter of the Linux Jargon Buster series, I’ll tell you what is Grub and what is it used for….
Lauren Tamaki About 30 years ago, in Santa Cruz, California, a man named Mike Pondsmith laid out a prophecy for the then-distant future—the year 2020. It was a future teeming with tech. He envisioned the dizzying data-winds of cyberspace, gigantic holographic video screens, bioengineered wheat-powered metro cars, and, everywhere you looked, the gleam of…
Lisa Gade reviews the MSI Creator 17, a 17.3” mobile workstation and laptop for creatives with an optional mini LED 4K display. The silver aluminum clad Creator 17 is in some ways a reinvented MSI GE75 Raider with more staid looks, a white backlit keyboard and your choice of a full HD IPS 144Hz display,…
Documenting your business processes and procedures helps you draw from your hard-earned knowledge that came with endless hours of “figuring stuff out.” Naturally, when you know what you know, you can do more work (better and faster). Today’s resources help you document all the knowledge you already have about your business’s workings, so your team…
Most often, you might see a “502 bad gateway” error in one of our WordPress hosting plans, because these plans use Apache web servers with Nginx as a proxy server. Read on to find out how proxy servers work. How to Fix the 502 Bad Gateway Error Refresh Your Page Clear Your Browser Cache Checking…
The WebP image format is a great way to speed up your WordPress site. Large photos are often the main cause of slow loading times, but even an image compressor can leave your users forced to load megabytes of image files and slowing their connection to a crawl. Plus, compressors can also make your images…
Back in mid-2019, we wrote a blog post detailing and comparing the most popular snaps across multiple distributions – Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Manjaro, and Ubuntu. This article gave us a fascinating insight into the usage patterns across these different systems and their audiences. We wanted to see if and how the situation has…
13th November 2020: Canonical’s Open Operator Collection, the largest collection of application operators, now supports both cloud-native and traditional applications on Windows and Linux. The collection is hosted at Charmhub.io and follows the Open Operator Manifesto. Next-generation operations unify CAAS and IAAS “The operator pattern successfully replaced config management on Kubernetes for cloud-native workloads,” said…
Technology anniversaries have become more commonplace in recent years. The iPhone at 10 years old, indeed Canonical itself turned 15 last year. Here though, we want to look at OpenStack reaching double figures this year. Starting off as a joint project between NASA and Rackspace in 2010, over 500 companies have now joined the OpenStack…
Jason Lengstorf interviews Henri Helvetica. Henri Helvetica is a freelance developer who has turned his interests to a passionate mix of site performance engineering and user experience. Follow him on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/HenriHelvetica Jason Lengstorf works at Netlify and hosts Learn With Jason. He is trying his very best to follow his own advice. Follow…
If you are curious about Fedora Linux, there are several ways to try it. The easiest way that won’t affect your current operating system is to create a live USB of Fedora. An alternative way to try Fedora, is to get advantage of virtualization technology through an installation in VirtualBox. This way, you use Fedora…
The president’s bad tweets are the stuff of slideshows and masterposts. They’ve inspired memes and cultural catchphrases, and some are so artfully inane that they could even be called poetry: “The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics!” Donald Trump tweeted, memorably, on Cinco de Mayo in 2016. Others are…
The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream about WordPress news, events, and life in quarantine. This week’s guests is Brad Williams from WebDev Studios. It’s a great episode, we hope you like it. Join us next Wednesday from 3-4pm PST when our special guest will be Carrie Dils. Read moreInstalling and Configuring your OnApp…
Caching is an indispensable feature of cost-effective application hosting and fast, low-latency user experiences. In-memory caching is one of the most widely used techniques, and Memcached’s in-memory caching capabilities are used by thousands of developers, hosting providers, and web services giants like Facebook®, Shopify®, and Slack®. In this article, we explore how Memcached works and…
A pretty common thing people like share are recipes! Be it a favorite dessert or a recipe that was handed down from your grandmother, being able to share recipes is a tradition that continues into the digital age. WordPress makes it easier by adding a recipe block through the Gutenberg editor. We’ll show you how…
Have you noticed that, over the years, search engines have been changing the way they show you the results of your search? These results are becoming more visual, notable, and clickable. Which means that it really pays off to be one of these results! The good news is that you can increase the chance of…
WordPress Black Friday Sale has arrived again and we cannot be more excited. This year, Black Friday is on 27th November, Friday and the following Monday is Cyber Monday. The previous year, we had a huge success where we offered amazing deals on WordPress hosting, domain names, themes, plugins, etc. And carrying forward our tradition,…
Lisa Gade reviews the Onyx Boox Note Air, a 10.3” e-ink eReader / tablet with a touch screen and Wacom EMR pen with 4,096 pressure levels. The Note Air is slim and light with a premium aluminum casing and color adjustable front lights. It has a faster than average processor for an e-ink reader so…
In this tutorial, we will build a to-do list app with HTML, SASS / CSS, and Vanilla Javascript. Our to-do list web app will be responsive with mobile first in mind. The to do list app will also be built with accessibility (A11y) in mind for keyboard navigation and screen readers. We will also use…