Jason Hee jasonheecs

Setting up a WordPress site on AWS

This tutorial walks through setting up AWS infrastructure for WordPress, starting at creating an AWS account. We'll manually provision a single EC2 instance (i.e an AWS virtual machine) to run WordPress using Nginx, PHP-FPM, and MySQL.

This tutorial assumes you're relatively comfortable on the command line and editing system configuration files. It is intended for folks who want a high-level of control and understanding of their infrastructure. It will take about half an hour if you don't Google away at some point.

If you experience any difficulties or have any feedback, leave a comment. 🐬

Coming soon: I'll write another tutorial on a high availability setup for WordPress on AWS, including load-balancing multiple application servers in an auto-scaling group and utilizing RDS.

Email Coding Guidelines

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TL;DR
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Essential JavaScript Links

I no longer mantain this list. There are lots of other very comprehensive JavaScript link lists out there. Please see those, instead (Google "awesome JavaScript" for a start).

Recommended Books

A list of useful books to improve your skills

Recommendations from others are noted in (parentheses). The rest are my personal recommendations.

Programming

Building your core

The Pragmatic Programmer - Hunt & Thomas

Commit Message Conventions

These rules are adopted from the AngularJS commit conventions.

Goals
Generating CHANGELOG.md
- Recognizing unimportant commits
- Provide more information when browsing the history
Format of the commit message
Subject line

Local SSL websites on macOS Sierra

These instructions will guide you through the process of setting up local, trusted websites on your own computer.

These instructions are intended to be used on macOS Sierra, but they have been known to work in El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, and Mountain Lion.

NOTE: You may substitute the edit command for nano, vim, or whatever the editor of your choice is. Personally, I forward the edit command to Sublime Text:

alias edit="/Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl"

ANNOUNCEMENT

I have moved this over to the Tech Interview Cheat Sheet Repo and has been expanded and even has code challenges you can run and practice against!

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	/**
	* Mass (bulk) insert or update on duplicate for Laravel 4/5
	*
	* insertOrUpdate([
	* ['id'=>1,'value'=>10],
	* ['id'=>2,'value'=>60]
	* ]);
	*
	*
	* @param array $rows

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	#
	# Bootstrap script for setting up a new OSX machine
	#
	# This should be idempotent so it can be run multiple times.
	#
	# Some apps don't have a cask and so still need to be installed by hand. These
	# include:
	#
	# - Twitter (app store)

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	echo ">>> Installing Mailhog"

	# Download binary from github
	wget --quiet -O ~/mailhog https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog/releases/download/v1.0.0/MailHog_linux_amd64

	# Make it executable
	chmod +x ~/mailhog