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There are a couple of ways to learn a programming language. If you're new to coding, you usually learn some basic computer coding concepts and try to apply them. If you already know how to code in another language, you relearn how coding concepts are expressed in the new language.

The thirteenth installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here, for the week ending on December 27th, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things that have happened in the Linux world.

I’m a fan of text editors that make it easy for you to learn how to use them. GNU nano is my favorite example of this: you launch nano, and you see a list of the most common commands along the bottom of the window throughout your entire session. Joe’s Own Editor (that’s joe for short) is another great example.

If you want to contribute to the Fedora project and community, participating in a test day is an excellent way to start. This test week will focus on the linux kernel 5.10 for Fedora.

butterfly is an xterm compatible terminal that runs in your web browser.

Linus Torvalds announced today the general availability for public testing of the first Release Candidate (RC) milestone of the upcoming Linux 5.11 kernel series.

As far as I can see any Java CRUD App would require a hack kind of described below , no matter is it "update" or "insert" or "select" JDBC setup doesn't work as it did earlier . Code bellow - invoking Connection "conn = DBConnection.createConnection();" along with localized JDBC setup in DBConnection.java works for me.

Learn how to use Docker Inspect to get detailed information on your Docker Containers and Resources. Docker inspect is a tool that enables you do get detailed information about your docker resources, such as containers, images, volumes, networks, tasks and services.

2020 was the year remote work became the norm. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people and companies shifted to "temporary" remote work, though many have now extended it indefinitely. As remote work will be the norm for the foreseeable future, here’s a review of some of the many articles published on Opensource.com regarding remote work practices, tools, and activities to manage this new normal. read more

I love a good notebook. I usually get one or two blank notebooks from technical conferences each year, and I spend the journey home deciding what I’ll fill the empty pages with. Sometimes, it’s notes about some new open source technology; other times, it’s ideas for new games, or a collection of dungeons for my D&D groups, or ideas for a fictional world or story. The ideas tend to flow freely when I have a blank notebook in front of me, because it’s empty, and nature abhors a vacuum.

Nextcloud is an open-source, flexible, and self-hosted cloud storage service. It is a fork of Owncloud and very similar to DropBox and other cloud storage services.

In this guide, we explain how you can install the latest Xfce desktop in Arch Linux. The guide explains the steps for the latest Xfce 4.16 release, however, it works for any Xfce version as well.

This guide explains what is Apk package manager and how to do various Alpine Linux package management operations using Apk command line package manager with examples.

XWiki is a free and open-source advanced wiki software platform written in Java.

Many Linux distributions bundle Vim as their default text editor. This appeals to many longtime Linux users, and those who don’t like it can change it promptly after install anyway. Vim is a funny editor, though, as it’s one of the few that opens to a mode that doesn’t permit text entry. That’s a puzzling choice for any user, and it’s confusing for a new one. read more

The LAMP stack is a set of open-source software that can be used to create websites and web applications by your choice. It is named as an acronym of the names of its original four open-source components: the Linux operating system, the Apache HTTP Server, the MySQL database management system, and the PHP hypertext preprocessor programming language.

Throughout this past year, we've shared top open source news to keep everyone updated on what's happening in the world of open source. In case you missed any of the headlines, catch up on 10 of the open source news events that grabbed our readers' attention in 2020. read more

In this tutorial you are going to learn how to install and setup Odoo with Nginx reverse proxy and connect it with PostgreSQL in Cloud SQL.

This post follows up "Practice coding in Java by writing a game" recently published at LXER. Focus has been done on manual invoking "javac" using standard command line options for placing in right folders packaged Java Beans and Servlets which are required by Tomcat 9 Java Web's server.

Video games are the new Hollywood, complete with celebrities and hyped blockbusters like Cyberpunk 2077. In 2019, they made half as much again as the movie sector's paltry $101bn. You know who won't see much of that dough? Desktop Linux games developers. Around the world, a committed community of independent gaming devs happily churns out games for Linux on the desktop. They're the gaming world's niche auteurs.