Setup phpMyAdmin for your freshly installed MySQL server

Download phpmyadmin to your machine. Unzip the file. Inside phpmyadmin folder there is a file config.sample.inc.php rename the file to config.inc.php

Open config.inc.php file and Change

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost';

to

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = '127.0.0.1';

then Change

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = false;

to

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = true;

Now try opening phpmyadmin inside browser. Since your mysql is freshly installed it will have an empty password. Login phpmyadmin with

Username: root

and leave Password empty. Click Go button and here you go. You have successfully configured your phpmyadmin to work with mysql server.

My Experience with Breach (A browser written in JS)

After cloning breach from its core i ran breach with ExoBrowser on my machine. Unfortunately it failed to run on my Mac 10.6.8. I went to their issues listing on github and found out it doesn't support 10.6.8. I guess its time i should upgrade my machine to a higher OS version.

You can try breach on your machine using the below link.

https://github.com/breach/breach_core

Hackerrank.com Challenges VS Real World

I doubt any serious developers would consider doing hackerrank.com challenges, there's already a way to demonstrate your programming capabilities in the real world, either by contributing to an existing open source project or maintaining your own projects on github.

Software engineering != puzzle solving, Kiddy.