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Update 2: Programming and Database Mistakes

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Percy Kwong

The biggest mistake you can make to cause problems with performance as a developer is to use joins.  Inner or Outer Joins take up a lot of CPU.  The transaction queries also take over 1000% time to complete in many cases. If you have to join tables, you need to revisit your DB architecture.  The…

Database Backed Web Applications Advice

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Here’s the scenario.  You’ve got a dedicated server running windows in a server farm (generic dedicated server provider).  You have mysql + asp or php app running all on the same server.  Raid 1 mirroring and 2 GB of ram. You have to have windows, because your application supports it.  Sound Familiar?  It’s a problem…

Backing Down from WordPress 3.4 to 3.3.2 [solution]

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Percy Kwong

This post assumes you’re running CentOS.  So modify the commands accordingly.  I also assume you have your wordpress install in /var/www/something.com After a bit of a while I finally decided to take the leap again to WordPress 3.4 from 3.3.2 only to be disappointed again.  There are still some issues they need to work out….

Nuveum offers Free High Performance Virtual Server for donating

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Percy Kwong

It would seem that my Startsomegood.com project for helping the Unemployed is starting to gain some traction.  Our first corporate Donator not only donated to the campaign, but decided to add an extra reward to my project. For anybody donating $10.00 or more, to the project for helping the unemployed, they get a free High-Performance…

What happened to “Human” in Humanity?

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I really do need to ask this question.  I appreciate my followers and yes, they’re a loyal bunch.  I do need to EVERYBODY one question and everyone on the Internet. We all go about our lives.  We see the homeless person at the exit ramp, on the sidewalk, etc.  Granted a lot of them are…

Free Tech Support from me…

Posted on June 23, 2012 by Percy Kwong

OK.  I really believe in my project for helping the unemployed, so here’s what I propose. If you donate to my project and of course, get others to donate to my project, I will provide you with free tech support (my skills and advice) for a period of time. Donate: $25.00 you get 1 hour…

I guess this is a call out for help

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I’m at the point where I can’t support this blog due to the traffic I’m getting.  I really need some donations or something.  I’m pushing about 5 GB of data a day and due to my divorce, I can’t afford to support this continually. I’m not asking for donations, although, they would help, but I…

Want a Free Server for a year? Here’s how to do it.

Posted on June 16, 2012 by Percy Kwong

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…

The effective Blogger what it means to Blog (My Tips)

Posted on June 16, 2012 by Percy Kwong

What does it mean to be an effective blogger?  It means you have a great quality blog and are very good at generating a following.  While I can speak of Blogging, I speak of it from the point of view how I do things and what Blogging means to me.  Here are my tips on…

WordPress Users! Emergency Announcement!

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I feel the need to get this out as soon as possible.  If you’re running wordpress 3.3.2 I would highly suggest NOT upgrading to 3.4 yet. I did a test install of 3.4 last night and while it seemed to work, the biggest problem was it didn’t allow tagging of posts.  THIS IS A BIG…

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