Stefan Kecskes

Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching

Setting up XDebug for dev environment

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.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Thursday, November 5, 2015

Speed up your website with Pagespeed mod

I’ve heard about some cool stuff that google is doing in one of software engineering podcasts. One of the tools was google pagespeed mod. It seemed to improve performance of the Apache2 webserver so I decided to give it a try.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Thursday, November 5, 2015

Laravel validator for CSS selectors

Last week I was building a backend tool in Laravel, where you could create layout in bootstrap 3 and add CSS selectors like id or class to any container. You wanted to be able to enter more than one class name into input field. Let’s say that you want to add 2 classes: col-xs-6 infoBox_4. Laravel hasn’t validator for this type of string, so I decided to make one.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Monday, September 28, 2015

Move Local Git Repository to Bitbucket

We already had our codebase under git repository. I didn’t want to lose the history of commits. We also had some branches, with some dev work on it. Those branches weren’t approved and safe to merge into master branch. I wanted to have all this stuff also on bitbucket. You will see that this process is really easy.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Monday, September 21, 2015

Setting up a Git Repository

Repositories these days are one of the basic stones of any software development. It allows teams of people to work together on one piece of software and allow every team member to see who made what changes, when and why. Repositories basically hold the copy of all changes made to code and also gives you the latest, most recent version. I don’t want to go deeply into why is it good and why we (developers) can’t live without it. Today, I want to show you how you can set up your own git repository in your local company infrastructure.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Friday, September 18, 2015