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Pain in the development backside

That’s right I am talking about caching and more specifically browser caching. We all know that in order to meet the aggressive page load times necessary to maintain search ranking we must employ various methods of caching. You also know that from my talk about High Performance WordPress I am no stranger to caching.

This issue almost always affect continuous delivery of product updates and system…

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#Apple Inc.#Chrome #Firefox #GitHub #iOS #iPad #iPhone #Mac App Store #OS X #Safari (web browser)

What the heck is a Dek

Print writers and editor have a lot of difficulty transitioning to a CMS system like WordPress because they tend to carry a full set of print editorial baggage. Now where is this more prevalent than with their legacy terminology. Concepts of Heds, Deks and even Ledes exist in WordPress however because the CMS was developed from the ground up in the digital realm by individuals who were not print…

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The Dos of WordPress Consulting

Once thing I have learned from years of working with WordPress is that there is no shortage of different development practices. One thing that stood out for me early on was that as a an independent contractor there are some processes that should be universal. The following are some of the concepts I have collected and adopted along the way.

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use SSH and SFTP to remotely connect directly to the…

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Thoughtful Thursday 2018

So 28 December 2018 marks the last Thoughtful Thursday #tt of the year. And oh what a year it has been. Let’s take a look back at what this means. I started Thoughtful Thursday shortly after joining twitter in 2009 but here’s the pin from last year. The whole #tt initiative is a chance for those of us who care about the world around us to challenge the status quo and fight back against the…

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Resetting the root password in MySql

I know that this are already a hundred other articles already written that cover this however is appears that NONE of the previously published works cover the nuances of MySql 5.7. I recently found myself up against he MySql 5.7 server brick wall on a new Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installation.

One would think hey it’s a new installation it should be dead easy and to be hones it was the complete opposite.…

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The Price of Technical Debt

No doubt if you spent any time around us technical types you have heard mention of this thing called technical debt often camel cased to TechDebt. There are already countless articles that explain what TechDebt is and often times managers equate the cost of TechDebt in terms of lost dev hours.

The typical conversation usually boils down to: “If we do not pay down the debt now when it is a minimal…

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Temporary Test Post

In an effort to understand the way search in WordPress actually functions. I have placed the following in this post’s body to see if it can be found.

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WordPress No Update Required Loop

Nothing is more frustrating than encountering a strange error after upgrading your WordPress site. Especially when it locks you out of the admin thus making troubleshooting all but impossible unless you were smart enough to self host on a system that grants you command lineaccess. You receive the infamous ‘No Update Required Your WordPress database is already up-to date!’ message and click…

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