DEV Community: Jeff Shomali

Compare Laravel, Django and Ruby on Rails by numbers

Jeff Shomali — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 12:13:09 +0000

Ruby on Rails, Django, and Laravel are three of the most popular web development frameworks available today. Each of these frameworks has its own set of strengths and weaknesses, and choosing the right one for your project can be a challenging task. In this blog post, we will compare these three frameworks in order to help you make an informed decision.

PHP is Dead
Programming languages used in most popular websites
Most Popular Framework on Github
Google Trends
Stack Overflow Most Used Languages
Most Popular Programming Languages On StackOverflow 2008 - 2020
Stack Overflow Framework Trends
Usage statistics of server-side programming languages for websites
Programming Language Usage Distribution in the Top 1 Million Sites
Usage statistics of server-side programming languages for websites
Which is the fastest?
Performance Rating (TPR-3)
Market Share by Top Websites
JavaScript is same as PHP
Languages Push/Pull Request data from Github
Number Comparison
Read More

PHP is Dead

If you just Google "PHP is Dead"you will find a lot of rumers talking about PHP last few years. As I started programming it was same. PHP is not dead, and in fact, it is still one of the most popular programming languages in use today, particularly for server-side web development.

According to the TIOBE Index, which measures the popularity of programming languages, PHP has consistently ranked within the top 10 most popular languages since 2003. It is also widely used by many large websites, including Facebook, Wikipedia, and WordPress.

There have been some predictions that PHP will eventually be replaced by newer languages, but it remains a popular and widely-used language for web development. It is constantly being updated and improved, and it is likely that it will continue to be a viable language for web development for the foreseeable future.

Programming languages used in most popular websites

Resource

Google Trends

resource

Stack Overflow Most Used Languages

resource

Most Popular Programming Languages On StackOverflow 2008 - 2020

Video Version

Stack Overflow Framework Trends

resource

Usage statistics of server-side programming languages for websites

resource

Programming Language Usage Distribution in the Top 1 Million Sites

resource

Usage statistics of server-side programming languages for websites

resource

Which is the fastest?

resource

Performance Rating (TPR-3)

resource

Market Share by Top Websites

resource

JavaScript is same as PHP

Video Version

Languages Push/Pull Request data from Github

resource

Number Comparison

It's difficult to accurately compare the popularity of web development frameworks such as Django, Ruby on Rails, and Laravel, as there are a number of factors that can influence their usage. However, here are some statistics that may be of interest:

According to the TIOBE Index, which measures the popularity of programming languages, Python (the language in which Django is written) has consistently ranked within the top 10 most popular languages over the past few years. As of January 2021, it is ranked as the 4th most popular language.
According to the Stack Overflow Developer Survey for 2021, Django was the 9th most popular web framework among professional developers.
According to the same survey, Ruby (the language in which Ruby on Rails is written) was the 7th most popular language among professional developers, and Ruby on Rails was the 11th most popular web framework.
According to the TIOBE Index, PHP (the language in which Laravel is written) has consistently ranked within the top 10 most popular languages over the past few years. As of January 2021, it is ranked as the 8th most popular language.

It's worth noting that these rankings can vary depending on the source and the criteria used to measure popularity. Additionally, the popularity of a language or framework does not necessarily reflect its suitability for a particular project or use case.

15 Essential Network Commands for Developers/Sysadmins/DevOps: Examples and Uses

Jeff Shomali — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 11:33:17 +0000

ping
traceroute
telnet
nslookup:
netstat
arp
route
dig
tcpdump
ifconfig
nmap
ss
iwconfig
wpa_cli
iptables

As a developer, it's important to be comfortable using various network commands to troubleshoot and debug issues that may arise in your projects. In this blog post, we'll go over some of the most commonly used network commands and provide examples of how they can be used.

ping

This command is used to test the connectivity between two devices on a network. It works by sending an ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) echo request to the specified destination, and then waits for a response. Here's an example of how to use ping:

ping google.com

This command will send ping requests to google.com and display the results, including the time it took for each request to be sent and received.

traceroute

This command is used to trace the route that network packets take from the source to the destination. It can be helpful for identifying issues with routing, as well as for understanding the path that packets take through the network. Here's an example of how to use traceroute:

traceroute google.com

This command will trace the route to google.com and display the results, including the hostname and IP address of each hop along the way.

telnet

This command is used to establish a connection to a remote device using the Telnet protocol. It can be used to test connectivity to a specific port on a remote device, or to connect to a device's command line interface (CLI) for further troubleshooting. Here's an example of how to use telnet:

telnet google.com 80

This command will attempt to establish a Telnet connection to google.com on port 80 (the default HTTP port). If the connection is successful, you'll be able to send HTTP requests to the server and see the responses.

nslookup:

This command is used to query the Domain Name System (DNS) to resolve hostnames to IP addresses, or vice versa. It can be useful for verifying that DNS records are correct, or for finding the IP address of a specific hostname. Here's an example of how to use nslookup:

nslookup google.com

This command will look up the IP address for google.com and display the results. You can also use nslookup to perform a reverse lookup, by specifying an IP address instead of a hostname:

nslookup 8.8.8.8

This command will look up the hostname for the IP address 8.8.8.8 (which happens to be a Google DNS server).

netstat

This command is used to display information about network connections on a device. It can be used to see what ports are open, what connections are established, and what protocols are being used. Here's an example of how to use netstat:

netstat -an

This command will display all active network connections on the device, including the protocol (TCP or UDP), the local and remote address and port, and the status of the connection. You can use various flags to filter the results or display additional information.

arp

This command is used to view and modify the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) cache on a device. ARP is used to map IP addresses to physical (MAC) addresses on a network. Here's an example of how to use arp:

arp -a

This command will display the ARP cache for the device, showing the IP and MAC addresses of all known devices on the network. You can use various flags to add, delete, or modify entries in the ARP cache.

route

This command is used to view and modify the routing table on a device. The routing table specifies the next hop for packets based on their destination address. Here's an example of how to use route:

route -n

This command will display the routing table for the device, showing the destination, gateway, and other information for each route. You can use various flags to add, delete, or modify routes in the routing table.

dig

This command is used to query DNS servers for information about domain names. It can be used to perform a variety of DNS lookups, such as A record lookups (to resolve hostnames to IP addresses), MX record lookups (to find mail servers for a domain), and more. Here's an example of how to use dig:

dig google.com A

This command will perform an A record lookup for google.com and display the results, including the IP addresses associated with the hostname.

tcpdump

This command is used to capture and analyze network traffic on a device. It can be helpful for troubleshooting issues with network communication, as well as for understanding how network protocols work. Here's an example of how to use tcpdump:

tcpdump -i eth0 -s 0 -w capture.pcap

This command will capture all traffic on the eth0 interface and save it to a file called capture.pcap. The -s 0 flag specifies that the entire packet should be captured (up to the maximum size), and the -w flag specifies the output file. You can use various flags to filter the traffic or display it in different ways.

ifconfig

This command used to configure network interfaces on Unix-like systems. It can be used to view and set the IP address, network mask, and other network settings for a device. Here's an example of how to use ifconfig:

ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0

This command will set the IP address of the eth0 interface to 192.168.1.10 and the network mask to 255.255.255.0. These values will be used by the device to determine which IP addresses are on the same network and which require routing through a gateway.

You can also use ifconfig to view the current settings for a network interface. For example:

ifconfig eth0

This command will display the current IP address, network mask, and other settings for the eth0 interface.

Note that ifconfig has been deprecated in some systems and replaced by the ip command. However, it is still widely used and supported.

nmap

This command is used to scan networks for open ports and other information about networked devices. It can be used for a variety of purposes, such as network security analysis, vulnerability assessment, and more. Here's an example of how to use nmap:

nmap -sT google.com

This command will perform a TCP SYN scan of google.com, which attempts to connect to all specified ports to determine which ones are open. You can use various flags to customize the scan, such as specifying the ports to scan or the type of scan to perform.

ss

This command is used to display information about network sockets on a device. It can be used to see what connections are established, what protocols are being used, and more. Here's an example of how to use ss:

ss -t -a

This command will display all TCP sockets on the device, showing the local and remote address and port, as well as the state of the connection. You can use various flags to filter the results or display additional information.

iwconfig

This command is used to configure wireless interfaces on Linux systems. It can be used to view and set the SSID, frequency, and other wireless settings for a device. Here's an example of how to use iwconfig:

iwconfig wlan0

This command will display the current wireless settings for the wlan0 interface. You can use various flags to set different values, such as the SSID or the frequency.

wpa_cli

This command is used to manage and control the wpa_supplicant daemon, which is used to connect to wireless networks on Linux systems. It can be used to scan for available networks, connect to a specific network, and more. Here's an example of how to use wpa_cli:

wpa_cli scan

This command will scan for available wireless networks and display the results. You can then use the wpa_cli command to connect to a specific network by specifying the SSID and passphrase.

iptables

This command is used to configure the Linux kernel's built-in firewall. It can be used to specify rules for how packets should be filtered based on various criteria, such as the source or destination address, the protocol, and more. Here's an example of how to use iptables:

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT

This command will add a rule to the firewall that allows incoming TCP packets on port 80 (the default HTTP port). The -A INPUT flag specifies that the rule should be added to the INPUT chain (for incoming packets), and the -j ACCEPT flag specifies that the packets should be accepted and allowed through the firewall.

These are just a few examples of the many network commands that are available for developers to use. Whether you're working on a server, a network device, or a client application, being familiar with these and other network commands can be an invaluable tool for debugging and troubleshooting issues.

Integrating MacOS with multiple Github or Bitbucket accounts

Jeff Shomali — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 22:27:25 +0000

Assume you want to use your personal Github account on your work laptop, and wanted to commit to your personal account without breaking your work repository configuration. In this tutorial I will show you how to easily manage multiple Github/Bitbucket accounts on MacOS without conflict each other.

To achieve our goal we need to tell Github/Bitbucket Git's engine that we have multiple account in one computer.

So bare with me to achieve our goal.

Create a new SSH key

Go to SSH directory $ cd ~/.ssh
Create a new SSH key ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C <your_email@example.com? More on Github

Register created SSH key to Github

This is very strait forward, just follow the Adding a new SSH key to your GitHub account

Create SSH Config

To connection to multiple remote server through the SSH we can use the SSH config file. I'm not going to explain what is config file in this post, but if you like to learn more about that here "Using the SSH Config File" is a cool article that I found for you. Ok less talk do more!

Create a config file $ cd ~/.ssh && touch config
Add your SSH configuration to config.

Here is the syntax that you need to understand.


# Host is the remote server

Host hostname1
    SSH_OPTION value
    SSH_OPTION value

In our case we want to use multiple Github/Bitbucket accounts, so it will be


# Your Github account
Host github.com-<jeffshomali>
   User git
   HostName github.com
   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/<jeff_personal>  
   IdentitiesOnly yes

Just replace the <> with your information.

Clone your repository.

Go to your Github account and clone of the repository.

Open the repo in your code editor and make sure the Origin fetch and push urls are set with
$ git remote -v if not set that up with $ git remote add origin https://github.com/user/repo.git

Add your Github username and email to every repo locally.

To prevent the conflict between your personal repo and your work repos you need to add your information to each repo by add the username and email to local repo.

Open your Git config file with $ code .git/config or $ git config --local -e.
Add your username and email

[user]
    name = your_github_username
    email = your_github_email@email.com

Confirm your information has been saved and present in config file by $ git config --local -l and you should see your Github/Bitbucket user.name and user.email.

Done!

Using Slack Webhook

Jeff Shomali — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 05:11:02 +0000

What do you learn in this post?

You will learn how to create a Shell script.
You will learn how to backup up your database by a script.
You will learn how to automate your script by specif time of day.
Also, you will learn how to send a message to your Slack channel programmatically.

Overview

Just imagine that you have a Slack channel, and you wanted to get notified when something happened in your Linux/Unix machine. For instance, getting back up of something, or checking disk usage, monitor the network/process, or whatever you want to do in that machine manually. In this case, I assume you want to get a database backup and send a process success or failure message to your one of your Slack channels. Before to start this, you need to have a Slack account. The goal of this post is to take a backup every day and send a message to your Slack channel. Before to start this you need to have Slack

Create Script

Create your script.sh file in your machine.
Make your script executable by chmod u+x script.sh
Add your logic to it. For this case to get backup of MySQL database with mysqldump.


#!/bin/sh

date=`date +%Y%m%d`

mysqldump -h localhost -u root -p pass --single-transaction --quick databasename > jeff/backup/databse${date}.sql

if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]
then
    echo " Script is running - ${date}" >> jeff/dbbackup.log
     curl -X POST -H 'Content-type: application/json' --data '{"channel":"#<your channel name>","text":"<your message here>"}' https://<your-slack-chanel>.slack.com/services/hooks/<your hooks key>
else
    echo "Script failed to run on ${date}" >> jeff/dbbackup.log
    curl -X POST -H 'Content-type: application/json' --data '{"channel":"#<your channel name>","text":"<your message here> "}' https://<your-slack-chanel>.slack.com/services/hooks/<your hookks key>
fi

You need to modify the <your message here>, <your channel name>, <your hooks key with your custom message and Slack webhooks' key. Where to get the key? follow next step

Create Slack Webhook

Create a Slack account and channel if you don't have it.
Create a Slack App. Follow this steps.

Add script to Cron jobs.

If you want to schedules a command or script on your server to run automatically at a specified time and date, please read the end of my last post.

Good luck 😉

How to backup/sync all of your dotfiles with Github

Jeff Shomali — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 21:39:04 +0000

As a developer, one of the challenges that we are facing every day is to backup or sync up all of our dot(.) files with a new or another environment. There are many dotfiles in my machine such as .alias, .vimrc, .zshrc, .gitconfig etc...

I'm not going to explain how to get a back up of all your files because each one of us has a different environment, so I'll explain how to backup your VS-Code setting. I know there is a VS-Code extension that syncs up your setting with Github. Our goal is to understand how to back up #vscode settings, snippets, extensions, and sync it with Github manually.

Create a Script

Create a new Github repository in your Github.com
In your local machine go to the desktop and open an empty folder in your terminal
Initiate an empty Git repository with $ git init and connect the local repo to newly created repo with $ git remote add git@github.com:yourusername/yourrepo.git
Create a shell script and name it whatever you want, like backup.sh and past the following code on that file.

#!/bin/bash


# check to see is git command line installed in this machine
IS_GIT_AVAILABLE="$(git --version)"
if [[ $IS_GIT_AVAILABLE == *"version"* ]]; then
  echo "Git is Available"
else
  echo "Git is not installed"
  exit 1
fi


# copy Vs-Code files
cp  $HOME/Library/Application\ 
Support/Code/User/{keybindings.json,settings.json,spellright.dict} .

# copy snippets folder
cp -r $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/Code/User/snippets .

# copy list of extensions that currently installed
code --list-extensions --show-versions >> ../../vscode/extensions.txt

# copy other dot files 
cp  $HOME/{.zshrc,.vimrc} .



# Check git status
gs="$(git status | grep -i "modified")"
# echo "${gs}"

# If there is a new change
if [[ $gs == *"modified"* ]]; then
  echo "push"
fi


# push to Github
git add -u;
git commit -m "New backup `date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'`";
git push origin master

Change the script permission with $ chmod +x backup.sh.
Run the script with $ ./backup.sh

If you want to run in background services:

crontab -e and add your script path and time you want to run the script for example

$ crontab -e  # this is open the cronjobs table in vim mode use i for insert mode

# this is run the script every minutes
$ 1 * * * * cd /Users/macp15/Projects/dotfiles/scripts/backup && ./backup.sh

# display list of cron jobs
$ crontab -l

Done (Khalas).

DEV Community: Jeff Shomali

Compare Laravel, Django and Ruby on Rails by numbers

PHP is Dead

Programming languages used in most popular websites

Most Popular Framework on Github

Google Trends

Stack Overflow Most Used Languages

Most Popular Programming Languages On StackOverflow 2008 - 2020

Stack Overflow Framework Trends

Usage statistics of server-side programming languages for websites

Programming Language Usage Distribution in the Top 1 Million Sites

Usage statistics of server-side programming languages for websites

Which is the fastest?

Performance Rating (TPR-3)

Market Share by Top Websites

JavaScript is same as PHP

Languages Push/Pull Request data from Github

Number Comparison

Read More

15 Essential Network Commands for Developers/Sysadmins/DevOps: Examples and Uses

ping

traceroute

telnet

nslookup:

netstat

arp

route

dig

tcpdump

ifconfig

nmap

ss

iwconfig

wpa_cli

iptables

Integrating MacOS with multiple Github or Bitbucket accounts

Create a new SSH key

Register created SSH key to Github

Create SSH Config

Clone your repository.

Add your Github username and email to every repo locally.

Using Slack Webhook

What do you learn in this post?

Overview

Create Script

Create Slack Webhook

Add script to Cron jobs.

How to backup/sync all of your dotfiles with Github

Create a Script