Many web developers use SSH (“Secure Shell”) on a daily basis to manage their servers, back up files, work remotely, and a myriad of other tasks. Today, I’ll explain what SSH is, do a brief history review, and, lastly, teach you how to set it up on your remote server or even your local network. Let’s get started!
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Lately, I’ve been getting this question a lot: “how did you get your terminal to look the way it does?” If you’ve noticed my terminal and are curious about how I set it up, this is the tutorial for you! Of course, what you learn here will be enough to get you started on creating your own custom command prompt, as well!
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I’m a big fan of the terminal: whether you’re leveraging a handful of commands (or more!) to improve your development process, or just using it to quickly move around your drives and open files and folders, the command line is an awesome tool. However, if you use it often, you’ll want to customize it to your needs. I’ll show you how to do that today!
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In this lesson, we’ll focus on workflow. More specifically, we’ll use the helpful GitHub service hooks to automatically update a project on our personal server whenever we push updates to a GitHub repo.
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The terminal is great, especially for web development, but typing out long, obscure commands and directories deep in the filesystem can get tedious. Aliases and functions allow you to create short, memorable names for commands you type all the time. In this Premium video tutorial, we will learn how to create and use both of these to speed up your command line workflow.
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Back in May, Nettuts+ ran a great article entitled ”7 Simple and Useful Command-Line Tips”; this was a great article for getting started with using the command line. But there’s a lot more you can learn about using a shell, and I’ll take you to the next level in this tutorial!
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One of the most useful, but under-used, tools a web developer has is the command-line. The terminal often scares people away; so here’s where we demonstrate some of the most useful day-to-day commands.
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So you’ve read the tutorials, and still can’t manage to figure out this stuff? What is Git – and why do we even need it? If you fall into this category, much like I did at one point, I’ve recorded a video tutorial that hopes to teach you exactly how to get started. Rather than feeling your eyes blur over as you attempt to comprehend code snippets like “git push origin master,” relax, and let me explain it to you as best as I possibly can!
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