Stefan Kecskes

Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching

Symlinks in Unix

Create a link in Unix A symbolic link is a special form of a file. Actually it is not a file just a pointer to a file. This link points to another file somewhere in the file system. You can create link to files and folders. By the look, feel and functionality it is same as Windows shortcut or alias on iOS systems. If the content of the original file changes, so does the content of symlink.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Friday, March 15, 2019

Install NVM (Node Version Manager) for Node.js on Ubuntu 18.04

Managing Node.js version through NVM Node.js is javascript runtime. I am not going to explain why and how it can be used, you can check yourself on node.js website. But the fact is that Node.js comes in different versions and if you used it in the past, you might be familiar that sometimes you just need other version, sometimes newer version, other times older version. There is a easy way to manage those versions with a single command and that’s what I want to introduce you to today.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Thursday, February 7, 2019

Continuous Deployment

Part 2 of 2

Continuous Deployment In previous article Continuous Integration with Strider I demonstrated how to set up continuous Integration, that means how to test the code automatically and find out if it is the newest changes to code broke it or not. Now that you are automatically testing your commits, the next logical step in automation process would be to release our tested code to live website. We would want it to happen automatically, when all tests pass.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Continuous Integration with Strider

Part 1 of 2

Manual deployments of yesterdays We, developers, are producing websites or applications for many years now. What kinds of tasks needs to be done, before we see the changes live on web. This was a big unknown to me for a very long time. Is my process of deploying the code the best practice? Should I do it other way? When I started creating websites, there was only one task and it was to deliver updated files to web server.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Setting up XDebug for dev environment

Debugging PHP in editor I would like to describe how to set up xDebug to work in your phpStorm IDE. There are different options available depending on your preference - you can have xDebug always try to initiate a connection for your devbox, or you can use browser plugins and extensions to choose when xDebug should try to run. Requirements sudo access to virtual host config files Automatic connection This method means that you don’t need any browser extensions, cookies or bookmarklets, but may cause small performance issues because xDebug will try and initiate a connection to your computer on port 9000 every time you load a page on your dev.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Thursday, November 5, 2015