Category: Technology

Getting Started With WordPress Customization

May 8, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

What are you doing to make your WordPress site stand out? As of July 2013, WordPress accounted for 18.9 percent of sites on the internet, or more than 70 million sites. If you haven’t customized and enhanced your WordPress site, the time is now. Simple tweaks to add advanced coding will help create a unique experience for the user. The time and money you spend to increase traffic will be wasted if you don’t have an optimized theme that is unique and memorable. Here are some steps to improve your web design skills. WordPress Customization Learning to Code If you’re afraid of making changes to code, get over it. Your website won’t collapse (though you should save a version of your coding before you begin making changes). There are too …

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Getting Started With WordPress Customization

Using The Best WordPress Gallery Plugins To Create Beautiful Photo Galleries

May 8, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

May07 Posted on May 7 by Kevin Muldoon in Resources

WordPress introduced a gallery option into their core way back in 2008 with version 2.5. More features have been added to the WordPress gallery over the years, however the functionality is still limited in many respects. That is why many WordPress website owners use a plugin to power their gallery instead. There are many great premium gallery plugins available, however in this article, I would like to show you who you can use add a gallery to your website using three different WordPress plugins. The plugins in question are NextGEN Gallery, Gallery, and Photo Gallery. All of these plugins can be downloaded free from the official WordPress plugin repository, though a premium version of each plugin is available should …

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Using The Best WordPress Gallery Plugins To Create Beautiful Photo Galleries

Update on Disqus: It’s Still About Realtime, But Go Demolishes Python

May 8, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Wednesday, May 7, 2014 at 8:56AM

Our last article on Disqus: How Disqus Went Realtime With 165K Messages Per Second And Less Than .2 Seconds Latency, was a little out of date, but the folks at Disqus have been busy implementing, not talking, so we don’t know a lot about what they are doing now, but we do have a short update in C1MM and NGINX by John Watson and an article Trying out this Go thing. So Disqus has grown a bit: 1.3 billion unique visitors 10 billion page views 500 million users engaged in discussions 3 million communities 25 million comments They are still all about realtime, but Go replaced Python in their Realtime system: Original Realtime backend was written in a pretty lightweight Python + gevent. The realtime service is a …

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Update on Disqus: It’s Still About Realtime, But Go Demolishes Python

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Hyper-V Replica to the Rescue!

May 6, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Power outages are not infrequent where I live (something I find quite confounding – to be honest) and earlier this week we had an extended power outage and my Hyper-V servers were powered off uncleanly. When the power returned I had to sit down and make sure that everything came back correctly. At first glance, everything looked good. My Hyper-V servers powered up happily and started up all the virtual machines. Hyper-V Replica reported that it was in a critical state, but it automatically scheduled resynchronization for all of my virtual machines. But as I was going through the virtual machines, I found a problem. Something had gone wrong with my firewall. I could not figure out what exactly was wrong …

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Hyper-V Replica to the Rescue!

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