therealtbs' Blog

This will be my blog for now. If you're interested in Programming, C#, Java and/or server administration, you should check back here every once in a while.

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Quick Tip! Your WebApp development flow with Azure and GitHub

So, say you wanna be an organized developer (who doesn't?). Well how does your GitHub repo look like?

Sometimes something simple can do the trick.

Let's say we have the branches set up like this:

dev - The latest dev snapshot, so you can pull from everywhere.

staging - Automatically gets built and put on staging.

master - Automatically gets built and put into production.

With Azure you set up your production website to automatically pull from the 'master' branch.

Then set up your 'staging' site to pull from your staging branch.

Now on the dev environment, don't work with any branch other than 'dev'.

When you think a change is ready for staging, create a pull request.

Simple as that. Something every developer should know, but many don't.

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Setting up a mail server in 5 minutes

Hey it’s 1 am and I can’t sleep, let’s write a blog post

TL;DR: Go check out iRedMail if you are thinking about setting up your own mailserver and have some experience with linux (e.g. opening ssh sessions, adjusting file permissions, etc.).

I was recently migrating servers and I took the challenge of getting a linux server to do my bidding (Mail, Database, Web, etc.).

My past experiences with linux and mail servers have been HORRIBLE, so I was kinda scared of doing this.

After some looking around and finding some tutorials which require too much manual fixing, I have come across iRedMail.

It took me just 5 minutes to get a COMPLETE mail server with webinterface, webmail and even IPTables from a newly installed Ubuntu 12.04.