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2012: What a Year for Linux

2012 has been another year of records for Linux. The operating system is the fastest growing platform across multiple industries and is inspiring new projects every single day. Join us as we review this amazing year and celebrate Linux and its global community of developers, contributors and sponsors. For more information about Linux, please visit www.linuxfoundation.org and http Third-party Video and Photo Credits In order of appearance * Technology Academy of Finland * Amazon (Kindle) * Google (Chromebook)

Install Netflix in Linux Mint, Fedora and Ubuntu – Tutorial

You’ve probably heard – Netflix works on Linux! Yes, installing Netflix on Linux has become easier, but we still need to use the cmd line. (COMMANDS BELOW) || Add me: facebook.com || Let me show you the easy way to watch Netflix on Ubuntu, Mint and Fedora! To install on Ubuntu / Mint – Start terminal $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ehoover/compholio $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install netflix-desktop —— For Fedora (only 32 bit systems) You need wget first: su -c ‘yum -y install wget’ Installing Netflix: wget -c sourceforge.net tar -xvzf Netflixplayer.tar.gz su -c ‘sh Netflixplayer.sh’ Running Netflix from cmd line: sh /usr/bin/Netflix.sh

Part 1 – WordPress Plugin Development Best Practices and Troubleshooting User Issues

Screencast of presentation made at Wordcamp Montreal 2010 WordPress’ open nature makes it very easy to create plugins to provide a large variety of capabilities to a site. However, developers don’t always think to follow best practices as they are writing up their code. Will their code break other plugins? Will the resulting site become very slow? Will users be able to understand how to get the most out of the extension? All of these questions will be discussed using concrete examples from four WordPress plugins developed over the past five years. Get slide presentation here: www.slideshare.net Part 2 – www.youtube.com