I am developing a PHP application that requires converting mp3 to ogg audio format and this will be run on CentOS 7 Linux distro. The ffmpeg is perfect application to accomplish this task. The following steps are tested running on my Linode server running Centos 7 64-bit.

The mongoDB provides high performance, high availability, and easy scalability. Using it with Drupal, will take some load off its SQL database. The read/write SQL procedures in Drupal functions like: session, log entries from watchdog, cache, fields, queue and block can be handled by mongoDB Drupal module. And this will greatly improve the perfomance of your Drupal site.

Drush give us text commands to accomplish task that significantly save us amount of time rather than using the web interface clicking around with a mouse. We will look at installing latest version of Drush on Windows using composer. The following instructions are done in all in one server XAMPP environment.

Bootstrap ships with 12 grid column system and it prioritize the small screen devices first then up to larger screen devices. The following demonstrate how the twitter bootstrap grid system works. It is one row using various grid system classes comes with it.

I have tried to use Prepros and one feature that I like is its image optimization. This feature reduces the byte size of of the image and this means faster web page loading. But Grunt is the workflow management I am using. Good thing is Grunt has this Imagemin plugin which can also optimize images (jpeg, png and gif). Lets take a look on how to setup and use this plugin to our workflow.

One of the nice thing about Compass is its smart way to auto generate sprite image. Lets take a quick look on using Compass to generate our project's sprite image need.

We will use this file structure to our project:

As web developer, we want to have separate development server which is always "ON" that we can use to test the functionality of our web codes or check our design layout on your actual different devices (desktop, tablet, mobile phone, etc.). Some prefer to use web hosting service and pay monthly or annually and others setup local machine at their home. I prefer the latter.

The following Linux commands compilation are my personal Linux commands that I find useful in my daily work:

Display running tasks:

top

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htop

Display current process running:

ps ax

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