How to install PostgreSQL on Ubuntu 16.04

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system which runs on all major operating systems, including Linux, UNIX and Windows. It is fully ACID compliant, has full support for foreign keys, joins, views, triggers, and stored procedures (in multiple languages). In this guide, I will describe how to install and configure PostgreSQL on Ubuntu 16.04. Before installing PostgreSQL let’s ensure that our system is up to date. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade Installation Almost all Linux repositories contain PostgreSQL and we can install PostgreSQL from there. Continue reading

How to install maven on OpenSUSE

By default OpenSUSE Linux distribution doesn’t have Maven into its repositories because of tons of dependencies which needed for Maven. But in spite of this Maven installation is straightforward in OpenSUSE. In this tutorial I will show how to install Maven from its official web site. First of all we need to download Maven from the official web site. There 2 types of archives there: tar.gz and zip. In this tutorial we will install Maven from the tar. Continue reading

Git: How to remove merged branches locally

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Also Git is a very powerful tool. Git supports branches. And branches in git cost almost nothing. As a result when we create a new feature, we create a “feature branch”, work there. When a feature is complete the “feature branch” is merged to development or master branch. Continue reading

How to install Ghost on Ubuntu 16.04

Ghost is an opensource lightweight publishing platform for blogging. It uses NodeJS, Ember.js and Handlebars under the hood. In this tutorial I will describe how to install Ghost on Ubuntu 16.04 VPS instance. If VPS instance has less than 1 GB of RAM installation could be a little bit tricky. Without further ado let’s get started. Update Ubuntu Before installing any new software it’s better to have our system up to date . Continue reading