Year: 2025
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Efficient Log Analysis on Apache Web Servers Using the Command Line
As a Linux server administrator, keeping track of your Apache Web Server’s activity and performance is essential. Apache’s robust logging facilities (access and error logs) can hold crucial information about visitor traffic, possible attacks, and performance bottlenecks. But those log files can grow massive — so reading them efficiently from the command line is a…
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Demystifying Git Clean: Safely Tidying Up Your Working Directory
When working on complex projects, it’s easy for your Git working directory to accumulate a lot of unnecessary files—build artifacts, temporary logs, and experiment leftovers. If you’ve ever wondered how to quickly clean things up without accidentally losing important work, Git’s git clean command is here to help. In this article, I’ll walk you through…
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Advanced Angular Routing: Lazy Loading with Route Guards and Resolvers
Angular’s powerful router makes building single page applications seamless, but once your application grows, optimizing routes becomes vital for performance and maintainability. In this article, we’ll delve into intermediate and advanced Angular routing concepts: lazy loading modules, using route guards to protect routes, and leveraging resolvers to fetch data before navigation. Why Lazy Loading? As…
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Beginner’s Guide to Angular Routing
Routing is a fundamental part of building single-page applications (SPAs) with Angular. It lets you navigate between different views or components, enabling a smooth and dynamic user experience. This guide will walk you through the basics of Angular routing so you can get started adding navigation to your Angular apps! What is Routing in Angular?…
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Elevating Forms in Angular with Material Design: A Guide to Stylish Inputs
When creating modern web applications, forms play a vital role in gathering user input. But a form is more than a collection of fields—it’s an opportunity to provide clarity, branding, and a seamless user experience. Angular Material makes it easy to craft beautiful, responsive, and accessible input forms. In this guide, I’ll walk you through…
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Rate Limiting Strategies in FastAPI: Protecting Your API from Abuse
Hi everyone! Fast Eddy here. Today, I’m tackling an important topic that every API developer needs to consider: how to implement rate limiting in FastAPI applications. Without proper rate limiting, your API could be susceptible to abuse, accidental overload, or even denial-of-service attacks. In this article, I’ll explore some effective strategies and walk through a…
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Crafting Responsive Layouts in Angular with SCSS Grid Techniques
Responsive design has become a cornerstone of modern web development, ensuring users get a seamless experience across all devices. As a web designer working with Angular, I’ve found SCSS grid techniques to be invaluable for creating flexible, adaptive layouts that play well with Material Design concepts. In this article, I’ll guide you through crafting responsive…
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Mastering the ‘top’ Command: Tips for Efficient Linux Server Monitoring
When it comes to monitoring the health and performance of your Linux servers, the "top" command is often one of the first tools in an administrator’s arsenal. It provides a real-time, dynamic view of what’s happening on your system, including which processes are consuming the most resources and overall system load. Yet, many users only…
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Securing Apache Web Server: Essential Command-Line Techniques
When it comes to hosting web sites on Linux servers, security is always a top priority. While Apache is a robust and reliable web server, its security out-of-the-box typically needs enhancement to withstand modern threats. In this article, I’ll walk you through essential command-line techniques to secure your Apache installation and reduce potential attack surfaces,…
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Customizing the Drupal Admin UI with Admin Toolbar and Beyond
As a Drupal developer, one of my favorite tricks to improve both my workflow and my clients’ satisfaction is refining the Drupal admin interface. While Drupal’s default admin backend is powerful, it can be overwhelming—or a bit inefficient—out of the box. Today, I’ll walk you through practical enhancements you can make to the admin UI,…