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The most common mistake in Applications and Databases in general

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Percy Kwong

So many programmers make this mistake because they don’t seem to get it.  It’s not your fault as a programmer / developer.  It’s just that you’re not a DBA. You need to implement Connection pooling.  It makes such a huge difference in the way your DB performance and app works it’s amazing. So here are…

A Perfect Example of Disaster Recovery in the Cloud

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Netflix went down yesterday due to power problems at Amazon’s Virginia Datacenter.  This of course caused an outage for some of Amazon’s EC2 customers. (Like Netflix).   This is a perfect example of why Redundancy in the cloud is important. All of my customers (some of them at EC2 Virginia) stayed up and available.  How?  Redundancy….

My Activism Project / My Ongoing Passion / Helping the unemployed find hope

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Percy Kwong

By now, there are quite a few of you who know me.  40000+ active feeds being read every day with 1900+ unique visitors a day with an average of 6-7 pageviews.  So it’s clear I’m definitely helping people. So I ask you help me with my activism project.  I’ve put up a project on kickstarter…

An excellent explanation of Pingbacks and Trackbacks

Posted on June 16, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I rarely find a blog on the internet that is helpful.  So I thought I’d point one out.  Webtrainingwheels.com written by Lucy Beer has written an excellent article on her site about Trackbacks and Pingbacks.  I don’t think I could have explained it better! So here’s the link to her post! Enjoy!

OpenVPN clients for Mac and Windows

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I’ve keep getting asked the same question over and over.  So I thought this warranted a post.  Where to get an OpenVPN client for for MacOSX and Windows. OpenVPN Client for windows: http://http://openvpn.se Tunnelblick for MacOSX:  http://code.google.com/p/tunnelblick/ Hopefully this helps people.

SEO Firms (a commentary)

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Percy Kwong

These are just my views about Search Engine Optimization and nothing more.  Search Engine Optimization is important, but you don’t need to pay thousands of dollars for it.  In fact, most SEO firms are a scam.  It’s the cat and mouse game they play with the search engines. So here’s the deal (from my opinion…

I’m giving away 1000 copies of my ebook in return for reviews.

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Percy Kwong

So, I need / like reviews.  So I’ve decided to give away 1000 copies of my ebook as a promotional thing. Just go to my estore and you’ll see the book for .01 (one penny).  Just buy it.  The reality is paypal doesn’t charge for the penny.  They just let it go.  It’s a testing…

My book is Available in Spanish Now as well.

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I’ve translated my book to Spanish so there are Now English, Spanish, and French Editions on Amazon. Spanish Edition here: Sobrevivir y ganar dinero en una economía de Down: Una guía para afrontar el desempleo y encontrar nuevas oportunidades (Spanish Edition)  

Buy my Book on Amazon and I’ll host your blog for free for a year.

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Percy Kwong

So, here’s the deal.  I want to help people.  So here’s what I’ve decided to do.  If you buy my book: Surviving the Economy and Making Money in a Down Economy A Guide to Coping with Unemployment and Finding New Opportunities I’ll host a non-commercial blog for you for a year.  Assuming you don’t abuse…

Why I wrote my book. Last day to download for free.

Posted on May 28, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Many people have emailed me asking me to define what a down economy is in my eyes.  So here’s my answer: When I refer to a down economy, I’m referring to an impending global problem that is currently our paradigm. The whole monetary system is in a state of distress and it’s causing corporations to…

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