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Install Gnome Desktop Environment on Raspberry Pi 4

This tutorial will guide you through installing Gnome Desktop environment on Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi 4

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Can you use a Raspberry Pi 4 for web development?

The Raspberry Pi has had a big power bump and increase in RAM, but is it enough to use as a coding desktop computer? Let's find out

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I'm doing it again - giving away a free Raspberry Pi

Want a free Raspberry Pi? I’m looking to give one away to someone who is looking to embark on a Raspberry Pi-related project. All I ask is I can follow-up and write about it. Here’s what you need to do.

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Create a Raspberry Pi VPN Server using L2TP/IPsec

In this tutorial, I will guide you through the steps to turn your Raspberry Pi into a VPN server using L2TP/IPsec

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List of Magento 1 Index Processes

Magento has a number of indexes which need reindexing from time-to-time. Here's the complete list of the ones in Magento 1.

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Switch between vim and nano for editing your crontab

Here's how to switch between vim and nano for editing your crontab in popular Linux distros.

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CSS: How to add momentum scrolling on Safari iOS to elements with overflow: scroll

Learn how to implement momentum scrolling with css on iOS

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Boost Raspberry Pi performance by installing Raspbian on a USB Flash drive from Windows

Learn how to boost the performance of your Raspberry Pi by running Raspberry Pi OS from a USB flash drive

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What's involved in making a mobile app and why it's not easy

Find out what is involved in making a mobile app and why it's not an easy process.

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Brightness flickering on your Surface Laptop or Surface Pro? Here's a fix

Learn how to prevent brightness flickering on your Microsoft Surface Pro or Surface Laptop.

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Create your own Cloud server on Raspberry Pi with OwnCloud

In this tutorial, I'll show you how you can install OwnCloud on a Raspberry Pi to use as your own cloud service.

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Create a RAID volume on Raspberry Pi

Learn how to create a RAID volume for extra data redundancy on your Raspberry PI

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Create a portable battery and solar powered Raspberry Pi Zero web server

Learn how to create your own solar-powered Raspberry Pi setup in this tutorial.

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How to add your Plugin to the WordPress Plugin Directory

Learn how to submit your WordPress plugin to the WordPress Plugin Directory, particularly if you use GIT

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Install Raspbian on a USB Flash drive from MacOS or Linux

This guide will help you through the steps necessary to install Raspbian (current version at the time of writing, Raspbian Jesse) onto a USB Flash drive from MacOS (OS X) or Linux (ie Ubuntu)

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Stop New Relic injecting javascript into your AMP pages

Learn how to stop AMP errors when NewRelic injects Javascript into your AMP pages

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WordPress 4.7 and 4.7.1 vulnerability - Everything you need to know

A content injection vulnerability exists in WordPress 4.7 and 4.7.1. Find out about how to fix it

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5 reasons why "can we just" should be banned in Digital Agencies

Here's 5 reasons why a developer never wants to hear the phrase 'can we just' and why it should be banned from all digital agencies

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Add SSL to your nginx site for free with let's encrypt

In this tutorial. I'll guide you through installing Let's Encrypt SSL certificates on Nginx powered websites.

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Add animated scroll to top button with CSS and jQuery

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to add animated back to top button with CSS and jQuery to your website.

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Remove emoji support in WordPress

WordPress 4.2 introduced a new emoji feature due to the ugly code required to make it work. Learn how to disable it in this tutorial

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Launched another website, Tides UK

Find out about Tides UK, my new tide times website that provides tides for over 700 UK destinations.

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Install MySQL Server on your Raspberry Pi

Learn how to install MySQL server on a Raspberry Pi 3 for an ultimate low-cost database server.

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Turn your Raspberry Pi 3 into a PHP 7 powered web server

Learn the steps to install Apache2 and PHP 7.0 on your Raspberry Pi 3, to create the ultimate low-powered, super quick web server in this tutorial.

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Upgrade to PHP 7.0 on Ubuntu

Learn how to upgrade to PHP 7.0 on Ubuntu 14.04 by adding a new APT source in this tutorial.