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Mac MAMP server setup on your local computer
Welcome to part 4 of the MAMP tutorial. In this post we will go over setting up php.ini on your Mac’s localhost.
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Apple MacBook Pro phpMyAdmin
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Github plus Ubuntu
A quick tutorial showing you how to install and setup git on an Ubuntu server and pull a repo from Github.
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If you need to see all of the groups assigned to a user simply type the following into the Terminal: groups username To display all the groups on your Ubuntu system just type: groups
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