I need to have a valid SSL certificate, by valid I mean not self signed. I don't want my customers to have to deal with the 'exception'. ...

I'm on Ubuntu 14.04 and I've been trying all possible methods to install Laravel to no avail. Error messages everything I try. I'm now trying the first method in the quickstart documentation, that is, via Laravel Installer, but it says to "Make sure to place the ~/.composer/vendor/bin directory in...

I am writing shell script for embedded Linux in a small industrial box. I have a variable containing the text pid: 1234 and I want to strip first X characters from the line, so only 1234 stays. I have more variables I need to "clean", so I need to cut away X first characters and ${string:5} does...

I want to build an SQL string to do database manipulation (updates, deletes, inserts, selects, that sort of thing) - instead of the awful string concat method using millions of "+"'s and quotes which is unreadable at best - there must be a better way. ...

I have recently stumbled upon the game 2048 . You merge similar tiles by moving them in any of the four directions to make "bigger" tiles. After each move, a new tile appears at random empty position with a value of either 2 or 4 . The game terminates when all the boxes are filled and there are ...

I'm trying to use Sublime Text 2 as an editor when I SSH in to my work server, and I'm stumped. I found this http://urbangiraffe.com/2011/08/13/remote-editing-with-sublime-text-2/ (among many other posts) that looks like it might help, but I don't follow it exactly, particularly with what values ...

I know there are already a few questions regarding recommendations for C++ unit test frameworks, but all the answers did not help as they just recommend one of the frameworks but do not provide any information about a (feature) comparison. ...

I've seen lots of codes have declaration like Class clazz , where does this originate from ? Is this some kind of convention ? I think 'clazz' is not even an English word , has no meaning at all , how can so many programmers name a wrong name coincidentally ? ...

I need an algorithm that can give me positions around a sphere for N points (less than 20, probably) that vaguely spreads them out. There's no need for "perfection", but I just need it so none of them are bunched together. ...

I have a local Git repository called 'skeleton' that I use for storing project skeletons. It has a few branches, for different kinds of projects: ...