I wanted to secure my Nginx web server with the use of this new free service Let's Encrypt and the people over at DigitalOcean are always busy making sure there's a lot of great tutorials for the rest of us. Following the instructions in "How To Secure Nginx with Let's...
I'm not comfortable with the upgrade procedure that's suggested on the support page "How to Upgrade Ghost". The following post describes my way of upgrading. By monitoring the GitHub page you'll see when there's a new version released. Current setup I'm running my Ghost blog on a Linux Droplet at...
There is a lot said and written about REST and being RESTful, and in this post I give my two cents when it comes to what theoretical grounds I use when creating RESTful APIs. In the year 2000 Roy Thomas Fielding published his dissertation Architectural Styles and the Design of...
If you, as I, think that phpMyAdmin is a useful tool but unnecessarily complex in regards of installation and user experience, then SQL Buddy might be the alternative for you. SQL Buddy is a web based administration tool for MySQL written in PHP. This tool is simple to use, yet...
New in PHP from version 5.4.x is a built-in web server perfect for use during development. By issuing the following command in a terminal you will be able to serve the content in ~/public_html over port 8080: $ php -S 0.0.0.0:8080 -t ~/public_html A more comprehensive article on the subject...
The development branch of the PHP framework CodeIgniter resides on GitHub and can be cloned by anyone. This article will outline a suggestion on how to set up a project that is continuously based on the latest version available in the repository. I'll explain how to create, develop and maintain...