Smart-Garage, DIY Home Automation with RPi and Arduino, Part 2

*Disclaimer, and terms of service: This site and the owners of this site, Beach Cities Software, LLC, claim no responsibility for any loss, damages, or injury that you may receive from following the instructions in this post.  By continuing to read this post, you...

Smart-Garage, DIY Home Automation with RPi and Arduino, Part 1

*Disclaimer, and terms of service: This site and the owners of this site, Beach Cities Software, LLC, claim no responsibility for any loss, damages, or injury that you may receive from following the instructions in this post.  By continuing to read this post, you...

GIT SOURCE CONTROL CHEAT SHEET

Using git for Source Control 101 Using git for source control has become ubiquitous with software development, and has largely replaced older source control methods, including CVS, and Subversion (SVN).  Here's some of the more common git commands. Initializing a...

Installing WordPress on AWS and Ubuntu 16.04

If you haven't already setup your Ubuntu server, please read this post, and get the Ubuntu server running on AWS' free-tier, first.  Otherwise, proceed here for the basic WordPress setup.   If you've never used WordPress, then now's your chance to see how easy it can...

Linux / Apache2 / MySQL / MSMTP / PHP Web, or App Server Setup

This is less of a blog post and more of a how-to, brought about by recent activities on AWS. Using MSMTP in particular was a new discovery, since it allows php.ini’s sendmail_path directive to point to, and use MSMTP instead of sendmail to send mail on a LAMMP server.

Nginx, Python, Flask-SocketIO and REST API’s over WebSockets

Another app server how-to, this time for an Nginx-backed, REST App server, running flask-socketio for adding real-time as well as HTTP end-points.  This is a useful feature, to be able to take advantage of all the socketio libs popping up for Javascript, Swift, C++...
GIT SOURCE CONTROL CHEAT SHEET

GIT SOURCE CONTROL CHEAT SHEET

Using git for Source Control 101 Using git for source control has become ubiquitous with software development, and has largely replaced older source control methods, including CVS, and Subversion (SVN).  Here's some of the more common git commands. Initializing a...

Installing WordPress on AWS and Ubuntu 16.04

Installing WordPress on AWS and Ubuntu 16.04

If you haven't already setup your Ubuntu server, please read this post, and get the Ubuntu server running on AWS' free-tier, first.  Otherwise, proceed here for the basic WordPress setup.   If you've never used WordPress, then now's your chance to see how easy it can...

Linux / Apache2 / MySQL / MSMTP / PHP Web, or App Server Setup

Linux / Apache2 / MySQL / MSMTP / PHP Web, or App Server Setup

This is less of a blog post and more of a how-to, brought about by recent activities on AWS. Using MSMTP in particular was a new discovery, since it allows php.ini’s sendmail_path directive to point to, and use MSMTP instead of sendmail to send mail on a LAMMP server.