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6 Hours NodeJS Challenge

So, what is Node.JS? Well, " Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside a web browser ". At least that's all that I know about Node right now. But, that is going to change today. Well, I saw this YouTube video a few days back where a developer, who had no idea about golang a.k.a "Go Programming Language" and managed to learn it and create a simple application using it within a few hours. He was an professionally experience developer which I certainly am not at current point of time, however, even he must have faced some challenges while doing so. After all, it was officially a challenge after all. Although I am not professionally a developer, I really wanted to take up such a challenge. This blog is a record of how the challenge went for me. Of course, a few hours of time is not sufficient to master any programming language, I think that after reaching a certain level as a programmer we can cer...

GREP - The secret weapon of UNIX/Linux

UNIX has some very powerful tools in it's arsenal in the form of it's commands. Most of these are all inherited by Linux making it a powerful free and open source operating system. One of these tools that can get quite handy is "grep" command. Grep is short for "Global Regular Expression Print". It was developed by Ken Thompson for UNIX operating system. He also created B programming language that is a direct predecessor to C programming language . He, along with Dennis Ritchie , was also involved in the creation of C programming language and UNIX operating system. If you have read my first blog , then you would know that I am fairly new to Linux, however I did learned Unix as a part of my curriculum back in the collage days. Even back then, I wasn't very good in using Unix commands. Now that I have started using Linux, I've got an opportunity to explore the terminal side of this OS. Knowing UNIX/Linux is quite a vital skill in the IT Industry. Ev...