I get this question via email 20-30 times a day. What do I use, how do I use it? What do I bring on a client site? Valid Questions.. So here are my tools of the trade: I carry a Backpack with lots of pockets that also holds my Laptop. This is the one I(…)
Many people today have moved to mouse centric movements and operations. The question is what happens when you have no access to your mouse due to a major OS issue (like a crash). I would say it would be terrible if you didn’t know how to recover from your damage due to your lack of(…)
I love wordpress. It’s simple and very powerful. The only problem with it is the quality of the plugins and the constant upgrading. Like Microsoft Windows, sooner or later, something is going to break. Of course, I didn’t notice it until just recently. On my blog (This blog), the newsfeeds broke. I really don’t know(…)
I’ve written about personal vpn servers and the great things round strongvpn and other vpn providers to get around the ISP throttling problem of Netflix. I always figured there was a better way to do it. Well, after a bit of thought, I realized that one could easily use Amazon’s free tier (a micro-instance) for(…)
I build Amazon AMIs. I started out building them on the actual Amazon EC2 infrastructure myself only to learn that doing so costs the runtime and the money on EC2. There is an easier way to get alot of it out of the way without it actually costing something. My suggestion is to build a(…)
There are tons of Automated backup plugins for WordPress, but the reality is you’re assuming they work unless you’ve actually restored one of them. This article will explain how to do this without using anything fancy like a backup program. In fact, I just give you a few scripts and of course the old, trusty,(…)
