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Pressing The Button

The Mytro Project is almost over. Over the past few months I’ve been writing about my experience crowdfunding and self-publishing a YA fantasy book called Mytro. After running an Indiegogo campaign and coming out with almost $20,000, I’m at the point where I have to start delivering books. When I started writing Mytro I wanted to go the traditional publishing route. I sent it to two agents who, I presume, didn’t trust it to sell enough units and, for all I know, they could still be right. However, I didn’t listen to them and so far I’ve been successful. Here’s what I did to prepare the book over the past few months. I started by rereading what I had written …

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Pressing The Button

WordPress Cheat Sheet For Commonly Used Template Functions

If you find yourself constantly referring to the Codex or searching for a commonly used template function, consider bookmarking this WordPress Cheat Sheet created by Trevor Niemi. Launched in February of this year, Niemi created the site after seeing a pixelated image of the same information published to Reddit. When asked how often the site is updated, Niemi says he’s actively updating it when Codex changes occur and when a good suggestion is submitted by a user. The cheat sheet has a listing of functions you can copy and paste into your work. Several of the functions are linked to their corresponding Codex pages for more information and general usage. There’s also a PDF link making it easy to save and view the…

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WordPress Cheat Sheet For Commonly Used Template Functions

Docker ported into Hadoop as benchmarks show SCREAMING FAST performance

Code committers hope unholy union of open source tech will spawn speedy gonzalez virtualization The Hadoop community is working on patches that will bring the popular app-containerization technology Docker into the data management system, and independent benchmarks are showing the tech has a huge speedup over traditional virtualization approaches. Docker is an open source Linux containerization technology that uses underlying kernel elements like namespaces, lxc, and cgroups to let an admin run multiple apps with all their dependencies in secure sandboxes on the same underlying Linux OS, making it an attractive alternative to typical virtualization, which bundles a copy of the OS with each app. In a set of benchmarks an IBM employee released on Thursday, the company showed that Docker containerization has some huge advantages …

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Docker ported into Hadoop as benchmarks show SCREAMING FAST performance

Hardware Open-Source NSA Technology (Airborne Wifi)

As you are probably already aware, a certain person decided to smear a large number of highly classified documents over the internet. Part of these documents however included the ANT Hardware Catalogue. ANT is a division of the NSA responsible for developing hardware devices and software for use by the Tailored Access Operations division. The full catalogue is available from multiple sources – Although This gives a good overview of the capabilities of each device. The one product we’re going to focus on here is called SPARROW-II As you can see this system is used as a mobile wireless network (WLAN) detection point. A small computer intended to be used for WLAN collection, including from UAVs. Hardware: IBM Power PC 405GPR processor, 64 …

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Hardware Open-Source NSA Technology (Airborne Wifi)

Best WordPress Themes for Creative Agencies & Freelancers

If you are creative freelancers or have a business of design agency, a web presence based on WordPress will be your best choice to give the potential clients an indication of your experience and expertise. Even if WordPress has been mostly used to create blogs, it can be well adapted to present your portfolios, demonstrate your work or projects, show off your skills and offer your services as a designer or creative professional in a stunning style. In this collection, we hand-picked the best WordPress themes for creative agencies and freelancers with superb visual design to get the visitors first impression. The themes will keep you up with the latest trends of design no matter you are freelancers, artists, web designers or photographers. It is worth …

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Best WordPress Themes for Creative Agencies & Freelancers

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