I’m doing a lot of WordPress development these days. Most of my clients use my hosting services. Yes, it’s an obvious business benefit to me because of the recurring revenue, but I also deliver a high level of proactive security and performance…
Well, maybe. On July 29th, Microsoft will launch their latest version of Windows, known as “Windows 10.” What happened to Windows 9? It’s a bit of a mystery. Reality is, actual software version numbers used to track technical changes by…
I do a lot of integration work between e-commerce cart software packages and third party systems. Many e-commerce carts (Sunshop, VirtueMart, ZenCart, etc.) maintain their own database tables for storing orders, product, categories and everything the cart needs for…
In the Formidable forms visual designer, each form input field has an section titled “click here to add a description or additional instructions.” It’s handy for putting hints where a user might need a bit of extra help. The hints text can be…
We live in fast moving times. In the world of computing technology, something created a couple of years ago is rarely viewed as exciting. For whatever reason, we seem to have a fascination with “new.” This post is the antithesis of that idea. It’s…
In their recent versions, the folks at Parallels have done a nice job of minimizing the differences between their Linux and Windows Plesk control panel. While I generally prefer Linux for a variety of reasons, one of the nice things about Plesk for Windows is the…
It’s not easy to get comprehensive information on hard drive reliability. Most of us in the information technology world have anecdotal tales of hard drive reliability and failures, but one or even a few data points about brand and model hard drive reliability…
The Shellshock vulnerability and evidence of its use has now been widely reported in tech media. Like the Heartbleed exploit I wrote about back in April, the sheer breadth of the vulnerability is staggering. All of the mainstream Linux distributions contain the…
WordPress has come a very long way in a relatively short period of time. In particular, the releases of the last two years, along with the fast growing base of plugins, have made the platform incredibly flexible for content management. More and more,…