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Waqar Ahmed

Waqar Ahmed

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Most often use technologies like PHP, Laravel, JavaScript, SQL and Linux. Portsmouth university alumni. Like a one-line, elegant algorithm.

Getting Started with Git

Apr 8, 20244 min read

What is Git? its three states and the basic workflow 路 What is Git? Snapshots, Not Differences馃梽 The major difference between Git and any other VCS is...

Getting Started with Git

GitHub Actions Primer

Jan 25, 20243 min read

Automate development tasks and deployment by using GitHub Actions 路 GitHub Actions provides free virtual machines (runners) that we can use to automate...

GitHub Actions Primer

9 Essential commands to unlock the power of vim

Aug 7, 20213 min read

How to use the most popular Linux text editor 路 Bram Moolenaar , the creator of vim, cloned and improved vi and released it in 1991. The name vim came...

9 Essential commands to unlock the power of vim

Tachyons VS Bootstrap

Jun 30, 20212 min read

Compared to Tachyons, Bootstrap is higher level framework, but Bootstrap is heavy. Bootstraps btn class adds over 400 lines of CSS code to the HTML...

Tachyons VS Bootstrap

Automate server intrusion detection and banning with Fail2ban

Jun 29, 20215 min read

Monitors server access logs and automatically bans IP addresses of bots and attackers 路 A Fail2Ban installation monitors server access logs and...

Automate server intrusion detection and banning with Fail2ban

MySQL Terminal Cheatsheet

Jun 28, 20212 min read

MySQL database management via command-line 路 To log in to MySQL server via terminal, use login credentials and hostname. mysql -h localhost -u username...

MySQL Terminal Cheatsheet