Forensic Analysis on Linux (Unix)
Operating Systems come in a few competing choices, of which the major players are Apple’s MacOS, Microsoft’s Windows and then the various …
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In-depth guides, insights, and best practices for modern software engineering
Self Dividing Numbers using Python
Introduction
A self-dividing number is a number that is divisible by every digit it contains.
For example, 128 is a self-dividing number because 128 % …
RuntimeError: thread.__init__() not called (Python)
Today I got a really dumb error from Python.
RuntimeError: thread.init() not called
But luckily it’s really easy to fix!
Below is the code …
Read Article →All About Distributed Databases
A database “is a structured collection of data. Card indices, printed catalogues of archaeological artefacts and telephone directories are all …
Read Article →Network systems security risks
Networking has played a vital part in the transfer of information as well as the accessibility of information that was never available to previous …
Read Article →Communications and The Software Development Process
Software Engineering or the Software Development Process is broken down into the following phases.
- Requirements
- Design
- Implementation
- Verification …
Get the total size of all the files in a directory
It’s amazing how many times I’ve need to find out the total size of all the files in a directory on one of our servers.
I have grown to …
Read Article →Structured and Object-Oriented Programming
Software development has really come a long way over the past few decades.
Programming used to always be about doing things in a very procedural way, …
Read Article →Moving a MySQL Database without downtime
At Statvoo Analytics we found ourselves in the position where we needed to move our master MySQL database without ANY downtime and for anyone …
Read Article →How to use Google Analytics in AngularJS
It seems to be quite a popular question with not as many answers to hold the weight.
Google Analytics has always been more of a pageviews type …
Read Article →Converting from Legacy to Client-Server or Distributed Systems
What is a legacy system?
A legacy system is a computing system that has been around for a very long period of time, tends to be difficult to maintain, …
Read Article →Conceptual Architectural Views, with a focus on the Development View
What is Conceptual Architectural Views?
Architectural views are abstractions, or simplifications, of the entire design, in which important …
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