Synchronizing GitLab with a(Windows) PC Once you have a GitLab server up and running, you will need to be able to load and save your repositories to it. Since I have a repository already locally, the first step is to suncrozie my GitLab server with a local copy of my […]
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) How to Make my Blog Rank Higher in Search Engines Now that I have enough content, I am trying to optimize my website with the search engines. My first step was to register with Google, Bing, and Yahoo. I then downloaded and installed the WordPress plugin […]
I do not want to pay more using more space than I need, so in this post I am going to reduce my disk size on the AWS EC2 instance to use less disk space. Let me start off by saying I do not know if AWS charges for “empty” […]
Disaster Recovery has been a long neglected action on my part. As such, when a disaster did strike, it forced me to into creating a Disaster Recovery blog post. I am now a better, more knowledgeable, AWS admin because of the incident. However, I have not be actively backing up […]
Problem: My current App is called “Shapes!” but I want to change it to something like “Bubbles”. Solution: Move and Rename ALL of the files with a reference to “Shapes.” This ended up being more complex than I thought because I wanted to keep my git history. Because of this, […]
In this post I will be creating a project on GitLab and Syncing my local files with it. Here are links to the previous posts for setting up GitLab and changing the default Labels. Background I have a project that I created on GitLab called “Shapes” that contains a single Readme.txt. I […]
After setting up GitLab, I wanted to create a project workflow using Labels. However, I did not like the default ones. I set them up a my first Test project, but wanted to replicate the Labels across all future projects. There was a lot of googling and grepping involved, but […]
Before I setup GitLab, I did a fair amount of investigation. I found that GitHub and GitLab were common tools that offered, in my opinion, better git integration than Mantis (which I had some previous experience with). As such, I decided to switch off of Manius. After considering GitHub, I […]
“Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!” Well, not exactly. The system crashed – Well, not exactly, I messed up a setting in AWS. WordPress behaved properly, but user error brought down the site. Luckily, I had and xml backup of my […]
Last night I had a website up. Now I wanted to customize it. I am not going into a large post on how to do this, because this has already been done a number of times before by the wonderful people who make the theme, and their supporters. Last night, […]
I have been thinking for a long time about creating website. A launching point of sorts, for whatever I want to do next. After doing some research, I decided to use amazon web services, or AWS. I logged into http://www.aws.amazon.com/free After selecting the free tier, I went though the basics, […]
