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GNU Nano is one of my favorite "little" text editors. While Nano is small, it does support some fairly advanced features like syntax highlighting, killing and yanking (copy and pasting), buffer support (think tabs), spell checking, and others. In this episode we'll configure a good initial Nano setup, show how... Watch this screencast

Monit is a great open source tool for keeping track of your server or system. Monit can make sure daemons are running, permissions are correct, remote servers are responding, and much more. In this episode we'll show you how to configure Monit to monitor our webserver, Apache HTTPD, starting it... Watch this screencast

In this episode we continue the multipart series with some more of my favorite command line tips including a surprisingly little known cd argument, quickly searching the bash_history, a sudo tip, and how to temporarily start a tiny webserver so we can share files with a single command. Watch this screencast

In this episode of a multipart series, we go over a couple of tips for the command line including Bash aliases and using pushd and popd to quickly traverse common directories. Watch this screencast

Apache JMeter is a great tool to load test your web applications, API, and even databases. In this episode, we go through how to record a short work flow with JMeter and use that to simulate load on a web application. Watch this screencast

One of the best changes I've ever made to my computing work flow is swapping my CAPS and CTRL keys. It is much easier on your pinky to hit the CAPS key instead of the standard mapping for CTRL and the CTRL key is used exponentially more than CAPS. In... Watch this screencast

Nginx is a great alternative to other webservers like Apache and Lighttpd. If you're looking for something with a bit less overhead and a bit more speed, give it a try. We'll get Nginx compiled from source on Ubuntu 9.04 and get PHP playing nice with it. Watch this screencast