Archive for June, 2013

 

 

Copying a LAMP web application

Wednesday, June 12th, 2013

One of the most common things a web professional does is copying a website from one web server to another. Whatever the reason – deploying, debugging, upgrading – it doesn’t matter. A few years ago when I started working with the web – I was using FTP. The more I was digging into the Linux Command Line the less I was using things like FTP until the point I completely stopped using it. You will see how quicker it is doing a copying via SSH compared to downloading all files via FTP and then uploading them again. The 5 main steps you need to take when copying a website are described below:
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June 2013 already?

Wednesday, June 12th, 2013

Is it June already? Time flies when you are having fun! haha… Last time I wrote here was in January, so I guess the plan to start writing here more often failed. The truth is that I have been busy with soo many different things.

On the personal side of things – it’s all the same (partying, travelling, socialising, living life to the full and enjoying the small things). I must admit – the weather in Scotland has been lovely for the last few weeks. I think that Europe and Scotland exchanged – while EU gets all the rain – we got the sunshine in Scotland 🙂

On the technology side of things I have been digging deep into the mobile side of the web (building HTML5/CSS3/jQueryMobile web apps in Cordova) as well as trying to build the perfect MVC PHP framework to use for my own projects (I might release it under the GNU/GPL one day).

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