Domain Name System (DNS) caching is a mechanism used to speed up the resolution of domain names to IP addresses. When you type a domain name into a web browser - URL Address, the browser first needs to find out the IP address of the server hosting the website before it can connect to it. This is done through the domain...

If you need to copy files from your local machine to a remote server using SSH protocol, you can do it by using the SCP command on Linux Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Debian as others.

The SCP utility comes by default with SSH, it is used for transferring files between remote computers. It uses the SSH protocol and has the...

An .APPLICATION file is a ClickOnce Deployment Manifest file that runs over .NET Framework.

This article describes what an APPLICATION file is and how to open one or convert one to a different format.

The .application is meant to run on Windows Systems, so,...

When you have a main shell script but inside it you call other shell scripts, let’s call then A.sh, B.sh and C.sh. All are successful and their exit codes are all equal to zero. However, when you look into the output file of the first script which is A, it contains an error message. In your logic sequence the...

Step by step on how to solve the "fatal: BRANCH RENAME FAILED" error when trying to rename the name of a git branch.

Docker is an Open Source platform for development, deploy and application execution. You need to install it to execute on operating systems. In this article we will see how to install and configure in Linux Debian: Mint and Ubuntu based distributions.

Docker allows you to separate apps from your infrastructure so you...

If you want to set up the Best environment for software development in Linux Mint (or Ubuntu and other Debian based distros), this is the right article for this.

Every software developer organizes their development environment for programming using a mix of technologies and tools to use to program, improve productivity...

What to do when you come across "error - src refspec main does not match any" when renaming a branch in GIT?

When using Laradock, by accessing the container Workspace I have sometimes received the following error when trying to execute PHP composer:

COMPOSER_AUTH" does not match the expected JSON schema, this may result in errors and should be resolved:  
   - Boolean value found, but an object is required  

According to...

How to check out with Git, from a single file, which does not belong to the branch you are working on?

What are “semantic commits” or “conventional commits”

Semantic Commits, also known as conventional commits, are the best way to document your implementation of applications, as you check context to the management of change of your source code. Semantic commits are considered good practice in the...

Setting Git and SSH communication protocol to accelerate its use with Github, Gitlab or Bitbucket.

Learn how to solve the error `fatal- refusing to merge unrelated histories` when trying to perform a pull or merge in git

Are you running out of space on your Linux system? Here are several ways to clean your system to free up space in Ubuntu and other Linux distributions based on Debian as Linux Mint.

Over time, the hard drive of any operating system can be disorganized as programs are added and removed. If you have 1 TB (a Terabyte) of...

If you work with different users in personal and work projects, it is interesting to set up your username and email at GIT locally, by project, so that your commits are correctly tracked on Github, Gitlab and Bitbucket.

By default the /<users>/.gitconfig file is used to store your global user and email settings...