Using SSL certificates may cause problems with the certificate chain on older or mobile browsers. The steps below show you how to create a complete certificate from your existing one and how to configure nginx. {{outline}} Gather SSL Certificate Files You need the following three SSL certificate files. You can …

This is the second post in our in-depth series about the Strider continuous integration and deployment platform. This week we guide you through the platform’s installation process and show you how to extend the capabilities by installing additional plugins. First, let’s have a look at the series overview. …

Continuous integration and deployment became an important part in software development. There are multiple SaaS platforms available, but you probably want to keep ownership of your code, host and run your own continous integration and deployment tool. Strider is an open source platform doing exactly this job. This is the …

Managing remote servers requires either a very good memory to remember connection options like usernames, remote addresses, ports and further details or a good way to document all the details for each server. The SSH config file should be your helping hand to control and simplify SSH connections. If you …

Dock is a shell script which helps you to bootstrap databases and other tools in seconds. You don't install the tools natively on your computer! Instead, Dock runs a Docker container on your machine and exposes required ports and IP addresses to your host machine. Your benefit: concentrate on development …

This is the end … just kidding! This is just the temporary end of our Retrofit series. Of course not the end of Future Studio! We hope you learned a lot and got tons of value throughout the series of articles. We want to conclude with an overview and short recap …

This is the last post in our Retrofit series. File upload functionality is often required for mobile apps. Before we start, let’s have an overview of the previously released posts. {{outline}} Introduction Most Android apps need some kind of upload functionality where you want to send your profile picture …

Virtuals are additional fields for a given model. Their values can be set manually or automatically with defined functionality. A common virtual property is the full name of a person, composed of user’s first and last name. Keep in mind: virtual properties don’t get persisted in the database. …