Jack Reichert

Fullstack Philosopher

Tag: sysadmin

  • Yet Another Website Relaunch

    Yet Another Website Relaunch

    Throughout my career I have relaunched this site quite a few times. I’ve used it to explore new web technologies that I can then then leverage on my job. The first jackreichert.com site I launched was when I moved from Israel to New York. It was a portfolio of the work I had done. I…

  • How to Back up Your Database on Vagrant Halt

    How to Back up Your Database on Vagrant Halt

    I’ve been exploring Vagrant lately. At work we need a better development workflow, and at home I’ve been reaping the benefits as well. One of the nice aspects of Vagrant is the ephemeral nature it gives to your environment. You can spin up a development box quickly and easily with a single command vagrant up…

  • Setting up an Ubuntu Desktop LAMP development server

    So you’ve inherited a WordPress site and you want to start developing for it. But you don’t want to go commando on the production site. Smart. How do you set up a local development environment? In this tutorial I’ll walk you through setting up a simple dev environment on Ubuntu desktop. WordPress typically runs off…

  • Leveling Up Your Development Skills with a Pinch of SysAdmin

    “If you’re developing properly, you shouldn’t have to worry about whether your site is running Apache, Nginx or anything else. Your code should just work.” – anon When developing a plugin or theme for use by the greater community this is certainly true. Anything you put out there for someone else, should absolutely not be…