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Copy and designers: The love/hate relationship

Designers like me like to draw layouts. We love structure. We love plotting navigation and UX. However, when designing a website, we rarely pay attention to the copy that goes in the design until the very end of the process. This causes fonts to be awkward and verbiage to be… well awkward too. Awkward text […]

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Usability Testing Basics: Designing for the Users

As a designer, you want to make a work of art. I know I do. Our personal goal is to make the best looking site we’ve ever made, with that one (or more) nifty feature that nobody else has. If you had your way, the only usability test performed would be your own usability. Sadly, works of art […]

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Online Password Security [Infographic]

The passwords that you set both online and in the real world are things that are extremely important when it comes to keeping your life secure and private. In a world where the vast majority of your personal data is online and only protected by a simple password or PIN number, the passwords you use […]

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How to Create a Simple Marketing Website With Bootstrap

Twitter Bootstrap is probably the best thing to have happened to web design since the development of HTML5. Originally created by a couple of developers at Twitter (who have since moved out to develop Bootstrap full-time) to streamline and standardize document development, Bootstrap has quickly grown to become one of the best loved development frameworks […]

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How to programmatically determine the highest version kernel RPM installed?

Background

Recently on the StackExchange site Unix & Linux the following question came up which seemed easy enough to answer.

How to programmatically determine the highest version kernel RPM installed?

This turned out to be trickier than I originally thought. What follows is my ultimate answer along with several failed attempts. I leave them so that others can […]

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Why are “executables” such as reboot, shutdown, and vgscan symlinks in the /sbin directory?

Background

If you’ve ever gone poking around in your Linux system’s /sbin directory the site of files like this might make you scratch your head.

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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jun 7 2011 vgmerge -> lvm
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How does a process deal with user credentials?

Background

A question came up on the Stack Exchange site Unix & Linux in which I wrote up a pretty good answer, that describes some of the mechanics of how a process deals with its user credentials, so I’m adding my writeup to the blog.

It really comes down to what makes up a process in Unix. […]

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How is my password stored in Linux?

Background

People that use Linux on a daily basis probably are completely oblivious to the actual mechanisms being used to store their passwords safely and securely on a given Linux system. Oh they might guess that their password is stored in the /etc/passwd file (they’d be wrong by the way) but most probably never even gave […]

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How to rsync certain files, exclude the rest, all while ignoring .svn directories?

I came across this question on the Stack Exchange site Unix & Linux. The question interested me so I answered it but thought I’d cross post it on my blog as well, given I took a pretty significant amount of time to put together a test case and write-up of how the solution ultimately worked.

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Animated Alien Ship in the Sky using jQuery Spritely

Hundreds of light years (now don’t ask me what is a light year, all I know it is same as a regular year, but with less calories!) away from the galaxy there lived a super intelligent species with big eyes & green naked (or wearing some sort of gr… Continue reading

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