This article summarizes how I set myself up to develop WordPress websites locally – that is, on my computer with a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack. This way I can do all the work I want without fear of exposing the site to potential attackers if I break something. There are three components to
link Git is a very powerful tool when coding. It has bothered me for a while now that I didn’t know how to use it to push changes to a website server. Finally I decided to do some digging and figured it out. In order to avoid having the actual repository in the website’s directory
During the autumn semester of 2017 I took the course “Programming Techniques for Scientific Simulations” as part of my BSc course in Computational Science and engineering at ETH Zürich. This is a summary of the course’s contents I wrote and used during the actual exam. Some things are missing, as it was an open-book exam
I was looking for a way to set up a private git server that I could access from anywhere, to synchronize my work across several computers. I remembered I had a Raspberry Pi lying around that wasn’t getting any real use, so I figured this would be a perfect use case! My first idea was
Here are the git commands I most frequently use, along with a brief description of what they are used for. Setting up git init: create a new repository of the current directory. Creating commits git status: show the current status of the git repository, along with staged and untracked files. git add <filename>: add <filename>
Git is a very useful version control tool. It allows you to work collaboratively with any number of developers, as well as keeping backups of every version of your project. Installation and creation of a project Intallation on Ubuntu is very simple, just press Ctrl+Alt+T to open a terminal window and run sudo apt install