Code repositories are applications to store software source code. It adds functionality like control version, team chat, etc. Git Git is an open source version control system (CVS) that provides code repositories. As many code repositories as a services are…
This post is about how to normalize a relational database. You can read a post as an introduction to relational databases. In the context of relational databases, normalization goal is a procedure to reduce redundancy and avoid issues while updating…
NoSQL databases refer to any database types that are not only relational. “NoSQL” stands for “not only SQL”. Relational database is the most popular database type nowadays. Structure Query Language (SQL) is a language to manage data in a relational…
This post offers a list of popular web search engines. According to Statcounter, as of 2020 Google dominate search engine market with a 82% in desktop computers and 95% on mobile phones. Some initiatives like the lobby FairSearch try to…
This post explains what is a DLL side-loading attack in the context of IT security. What is a DLL Side-loading Attack? A Dynamic Linked Library (DLL) is a file that is used on Windows systems to group functions. By…
This post explains how to transfer data from an Android smartphone to another Android smartphone. What is the data in a phone that I must backup or transfer? The source of some typical data to be backuped or transfered…
This post explains how to update and install packages in Ubuntu from a terminal. It also explains how to perform a version upgrade. apt-get and apt is the same command. We use apt in this post because is shorter. To…
This post explains what a sound server is, specifically in a Linux context, and provides a list of Sound Server APIs for Linux. What is a Sound Server? A sound server is software that manages the use of and access…
Eclipse is a free and open source IDE (Integrated Development Environment). One of its characteristics is its compatibility with multiple programming languages. Some of them (like Java, C++ or PHP) are integrated by default in Eclipse but other require additional…
This post is about how to convert a computer with vanilla Ubuntu OS installed into a FOSS DAW. The steps will be quite similar for other GNU/Linux distributions, but extra steps may be needed, for example, to allow JACK working…