Even if programming is still needed, it is not anymore the main hurdle when creating a new website. Nowadays we have many-many other platforms and content management systems, which give us the opportunity to polish the website creation process and…
With the come of spring, new OS versions and more knowledge about Linux, I think time has come to make another tutorial about how to setup a small hosting server, mainly for personal usage.
Naming variables has always been a source of debates around developers. The general idea is that you should pick a name as short as possible, but long enough to provide meaning, one which would be self-explanatory, for which you needn’t…
As my adventure with using Linux goes on and on, I am learning about advantages and disadvantages of distributions, desktop environments and window managers. Mainly for curiosity and for getting my hands dirty, I have decided to try Debian –…
For the old hardware, I would much rather find new ways to use it, rather than just throwing it away. The Alpine Linux is a non-comercial distribution known for its small resource requirements, simplicity and security.
Lumen is the younger brother of Laravel. It is supposed to be faster and it is especially designed for building APIs. With this project, we aim to create a JSON API which will also provide OAuth support, mainly for using…
Online security should be a constant concern for all internet users. One important rule is to use different passwords with each of your online accounts. Other rules could be to make them as long as possible or to change them…
The latest versions of php come with big performance improvements. However, a downside is that older code might have unexpected behaviour – as the improvement list is quite long.
I have recently taken a look through the portfolio projects on my website. It is a nice walk down memory lane, but also a misrepresentation of what I do nowadays. It is also true about content I have created a…
Even as a developer, from time to time you might get confused about the exact steps to take when you what to register a domain and create some hosting for it, with minimal costs.
A while back, I have started using kanboard as a personal task manager. It was a close call between it and other open source solutions and it won basically for being very-very easy to install. It has nice features –…
For a couple of years now, I have been using Docker for development. It is an amazing tool which highly improves the developer’s job. However, it does not make very good friends with Windows Home, which was the OEM operating…