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…
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A Perfect Example of Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
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….
The Perfect Home Office.
I’ve struggled with that question in the past. I can say truthfully that having both was a royal pain in the butt. Keeping data synced wasn’t fun, nor was the electricity bill. Me being me always had the solution so it was never a big deal to just vpn into my home network to get…
Want a Free Server for a year? Here’s how to do it.
Amazon offers a free server for a year. If you sign up with me, I’ll set up your server in your free tier for $25.00. Just sign up with me and you’ll get a free server to do whatever you’d like for a year. This can be a webserver, mail-server, VPN server, or any combination…
Are you selling Digital Goods? Software / Services? Affiliate programs are the way to go
I sell products and services on my blog. These products and services pay my bills. The ultimate question is how much can one person sell or better yet, the better question is how much can one salesforce sell? I’ve done extensive research into affiliate programs, but the best way to do things (at least as…
Tracking visitors to your blog / website
If you’re anything like me, as a professional blogger / writer / consultant, you’re always looking at your traffic logs for multiple reasons. You want to see how popular your blog is and what it really means to you. Google Analytics is just not enough. You’re not getting the information you need. So here’s a…
When was the last time you had a technology audit?
This is a message to everyone who runs any kind of technology in a business. The posting is directed towards everyone who has their own applications, servers, blogs, websites, etc. Special Note to CIOs/CTOs: I understand you run an organization that has many people under you. I understand that you feel you’ve got your resources…
SEO Firms (a commentary)
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…
A New Video about Coping with Unemployment.
Here’s a video of me discussing my book and the 1000 free book giveaway. It’s about doing the right thing. Digg it Up! Stumble It, Get the word out! I’m doing this with the hopes that people will review this book on Amazon. The link is here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0085QZIJE The book is priced at one penny,…
The Apple iPhone vs. Android making the choice
So you’re in the market for a new mobile phone. The question is which do you go with? When I say which, I mean which platform. There are really 2 major choices today: 1. iPhone 2. Android So which do you go with and how should you make the decision. The reality is I go…