J Scott Smith

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Articles - August 12th, 2014

Installing Statamic on DigitalOcean running Ubuntu 14.04

DigitalOcean is a an SSD VPS cloud hosting service built for developers. This means you’ll have affordable and fast hosting but you’ll need to setup and configure the server yourself. I’ll walk you through the process I followed and pieced together to get my own site up and running which includes setting up Linux, Apache, and PHP.

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Articles - August 2nd, 2014

Welp, Let’s Kick This Off: Introductions and a Basic Plan

After a few years of really trying to bear down and learn about front-end development, I’ve decided to start this blog as a place to share what I’m working on. This will include sharing tips or tricks I come across, compiling resources that I find useful, or even just posting about some of my other interests. So let’s get to it.

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