Once you’ve gained a solid understanding of Linux and mastered the various commands available, your next big win comes in the form of shell functions. Code wrapped in a function can be reused by your ...

Although JConsole and VisualVM offer freely available and highly useful JMX clients, there are some features of jManage that make it worth using in conjunction with these other JMX clients. The ...

Y ou may assume the command line is only for system admins or developers; but for any power user, it's a great tool if you ...

[Joshua] has put together a list of BASH prompt customizations. The command prompt is used in a command-line interface to show that the system is ready for the next command. Often times this is ...

What are Command Line Arguments and why would you use them? Command line arguments are extra commands you can use when launching a program so that the program's functionality will change. Depending on ...

The NetBeans IDE provides JUnit integration that can be very handy when writing and running JUnit-based unit tests. However, I like to be able to do anything I might do often outside of the IDE as ...

One incarnation of the so called 80/20 rule has been associated with software systems. It has been observed that 80% of a user population regularly uses only 20% of a system's features. Without ...

Let's face it, Windows machines get hacked, and in some environments it happens a lot. Fortunately, Microsoft has built numerous tools into Windows so administrators and power users can analyse a ...