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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.

9 Essential commands to unlock the power of vim

Aug 7, 20213 min read

How to use the most popular Linux text editor · 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 · 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 · To log in to MySQL server via terminal, use login credentials and hostname. mysql -h localhost -u username...

MySQL Terminal Cheatsheet

MySQL Database Backup and Migration using Terminal

Jun 23, 20213 min read

There can be multiple ways for MySQL/MariaDB database export and import during database server migration or database backup. The quickest seems to be...

MySQL Database Backup and Migration using Terminal

Replace FTP with the SCP command in the terminal

Jun 22, 20212 min read

Linux secure copy SCP command · SCP comes in handy to copy files to a remote server from a computer or vice versa. You can also copy server files to...

Replace FTP with the SCP command in the terminal