Author Archives: Stephen

Build & Manage Websites with Dreamweaver Templates

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Stephen

How do you handle common elements of a webpage across a number of pages? (e.g. Navigation, Header, Footer areas etc) How do you update the header or footer area of every webpage in a website? PHP Includes SSI Includes Manually with Copy and … Continue reading →

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Backup with SyncToy

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Stephen

Left to Right (all files are copied from the Folder on the Left, to the Folder on the Right) Synchronize: New and updated files are copied both ways. Renames and deletes in one folder is repeated on the other. Echo: New … Continue reading →

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WordPress: Caching, Internet Bots and Database issues

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Stephen

WP Supercache works very nice and has a lot of config options including a preload to cache all wordpress pages. One of my blogs however recieves average traffic and that coupled with the fact that I use tla, I didn’t … Continue reading →

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Installing and Updating WordPress with SVN from the Linux CLI

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Stephen

I’ve been using wordpress since the early 2.x releases. One thing that used to get me down was having to apply all the updates to wordpress as they were especially frequent in 2.x release. While wordpress has an automatic update … Continue reading →

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Quick Disk Benchmark for Windows (no setup required)

Posted on April 2, 2011 by Stephen

For a quick benchmark of a local disk, or network share on a Windows computer, there is a small application you can use. It requires no installation or setup. Just download, run the exe, and click “Start”. Wait a few … Continue reading →

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