by steve | Sep 27, 2010 | Technology
Robin Harris runs a blog called StorageMojo. Nerds out there may be interested in some posts he has reporting about research into hard disk failure by Google and Carnegie Mellon. Everything You Know About Disks Is Wrong Google’s Disk Failure Experience Let me sum it...
by steve | Aug 6, 2010 | Technology
I spent some time today helping a client debug problems she was having with OpenCart. OpenCart is an open source PHP based shopping cart / product catalog. You can buy a “commercial” version which gets you support, or for the savvy web nerd, you can wing...
by steve | Jun 9, 2010 | Technology
On the run – hopping planes, going places… Yet you still need to update your site despite no easy access to your standard PC? No problem. WordPress to rescue. WordPress, swiss army knife for blog domination. Download the WordPress app for iPhone or Android...
by steve | Dec 2, 2009 | Technology
Let’s say you’ve got a WordPress site on one server, and you need to move it to an entirely different server that’s going to have a different URL than the current one? C.K. Sample has some helpful instructions here. (Should his site go down, you can...
by steve | Nov 29, 0000 | Technology
This is for you Mac OS X heads out there. The GUI Disk Utility app is perfectly fine for most situations where you’re formatting and working with hard drives, volumes and partitions. But what about if you’ve managed to give your drive some kind of...
by steve | Nov 29, 0000 | Technology
Video clips on your site can be pretty great. In the old days you were stuck with either putting up your video in several different formats (QuickTime, Windows Media, Real, etc…) or facing the reality that only a percentage of your site visitors would actually...
