Stefan Kecskes

Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching

Using GPG key for Git commits on Linux

Today, we will use GPG for signing Git commits and tags in Git, so that we can verify that the commit or tag was made by you and not someone else. So to say that the code was not tampered with. This is a great way of making sure that the code you are working on is not modified by someone else without your knowledge.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Symlinks 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

Node.js is javascript runtime. I am not going to explain why and how it can be used. You might be familiar that sometimes you just need other version, sometimes newer version, other times older version. There is an 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

In previous article, 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

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?

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Wednesday, March 2, 2016