Omid Farhang

For setting up a new VPS to host my personal site and emails I've decided to go with Ubuntu 18.04 and use Apache HTTP Server because many of the tools I use can handle Apache with htaccess and they don't need manual configs of nginx. Next step is setting up Let's Encrypt to enable SSL for websites and emails, I tried it with DNS Challenge so my Cache Proxy won't bother for challenges. And then for emails I setup Postfix with Dovecot and they are working perfectly and pretty fast. Install and config of PHP and PHP-FPM had no issue. After setting up MySQL and phpMyAdmin I felt the need of an Accelerator to speed things up so I used Memcached and it improved speed of my website so much. My WordPress installation with W3 Total Cache is using Memcached for html/css/js minify, for object cache etc., Since I'm using a CDN with page cache, I did not run a local nginx reverse proxy or Varnish , but if I decide to drop the current CDN, I will setup one.

Recently I've switched from GNU Bash to Oh My ZSH and I'm happy with the way I can customize the environment, picking between options by tab and seeing git status or hardware status while typing commands and a beautiful UI that's easy on eyes. Also ability to turn-off case-sensitivity comes in handy. I don't think if I will go back!

Developing static sites like a landing page for mobile app or just a personal resume using HTML5 and Bootstrap is a lot fun when you are using build tools like gulp . I made a personal resume using above tools and published them on GitHub Pages. It was fast and easy, Thanks to GitHub for the free service. All the JavaScript codes worked perfectly after being concat and minified and uglified by gulp and running perfectly on GitHub Pages. gulp created sitemap and inserted Google Analytics code into all pages and saved about 30% of images size by compressing them during build.

I had a Wallet/Exchange project, I have been developing both #Backend and #Frontend, Giving #REST API to mobile developers too. I decided to use Laravel for backend and build my #RESTfulAPI over that. So I used Laravel Passport for #JWT Authentication and host it over #cPanel hosting using Apache HTTP Server and using MySQL for database. Not the perfect choice but it worked perfectly as a starter for project. We used GitLab private repository for this project and we have been slightly unhappy because of several down-time we had over GitLab. All our team used Linux based system for developing project so we shared our bash scripts over the repo and saved lots of time.

My Favorite #IDE is Visual Studio Code bundled with Prettier and #TSLint and #GitLens for better Git management, Bracket Pair Colorizer 2 has been also a big help over time. Also #Protobuf support has been a big help in our recent project. And the most addictive shortcut has been Ctrl + Shift + I to organize imports

I really enjoy my project when I use Angular 2 and above because I have full control over everything and easy I can make it #SSR and add everything I need using npm and let Webpack to bundle them all, Thanks to TypeScript for making it easy to write minimal and manageable code. It was so easy to integrate gRPC into our project. Since we have been using Material Design for Angular we spend all our time on writing Clean Code and not much time for UI.