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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…

How to Bind utorrent to a specific ip and route it out a vpn for better speed. [Solved]

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Torrent technology is an amazing in the sense it uses swarms of users to serve and share files you may be trying to download.  It’s been implemented by many companies and is a very bandwidth efficient format to get your files served to you faster.  Whenever I download CentOS DVDs, I use utorrent and other…

Why a cheap Cisco, Dlink, Netgear firewall just doesn’t make the cut.

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Percy Kwong

This article sponsored by: Cheappfsensefirewalls.com  (I own the shop for full disclosure) There are many reasons why one would go with an over the counter router you could buy at Best Buy.  The reality is you’re missing out on a lot of the features and most importantly, performance.  Most people buy a Linksys, Dlink, Netgear…

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