command line interface

After a long delay due to kernel.org being hacked in August 2011, Linux 3.2 has finally been released. It’s a whopper of a release with optimizations and tweaks in nearly every facet of the OS; here’s the rundown of what’s new inside and why you want to upgrade to it.

In a new post to his blog Dave Marshall shares a homegrown migration tool he's created to help make database migrations a simpler task - phpmig.

I've highlighted a few language programs in this column, bu

Continuing on with his previous investigations into microframworks and what it takes to create them, Gonzalo Ayuso has posted his second part of the series - a look at working on the command line.

Once upon a time the thought of a firewalled, cordoned, and censored web was enough to send chills up the spine of any internet user.

As the years have passed, however, our sentiment has softened. A completely free, decentralized, and unaccountable web might sound ideal, but in actuality it’s a very tall order for any large, centralized institution to successfully manage.

As a result, the web itself — the backbone — is still free, but schools, offices, ISPs, and even a few countries have started to filter your connection to it.

Simas Toleikis has a new post today looking at a method he's found for creating a simple daemon application in PHP.

He gives you the basic outline of how it works (with a bit of code included) but not a specific example.

Ubuntugeek: "Trimage is a cross-platform GUI and command-line interface to optimize image files via optipng, advpng and jpegoptim, depending on the filetype (currently, PNG and PG files are supported)."

Serverwatch: "I recently came across the GoogleCL project, which provides a command-line interface to various Google tools (e.g.., Calendar and YouTube)."

Casual VirtualBox users might not know about the awesome power that lurks just beneath the surface in the Command Line Interface (CLI).

Alfonso Jimenez has posted a tutorial on how to tie the Yahoo r3 service for internationalizing your applications with the Phing build tool.