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- Building on Amazon Web Services May 19, 2013What is Amazon Web Services? This presentation doesn't get in too deep -- it was designed to spark a discussion at the May 17, 2013 meeting of TLA Managers. We meet way too early on a Friday morning, once a month to network, share, talk about a topic-of-the-month. Amazon Web Services from Stern Data Solutions download PDF Tags: Public Speaking & […]
- Hackers, Bots, and Bores May 8, 2013A few minutes ago, I tweeted "It's fun using #Wordfence to watch bots try to login as 'admin' to my #WordPress sites. I auto-block that ID." And it is, although the ongoing attempts are both annoying and a waste of bandwidth. This was a big deal a few weeks ago. In fact, the sheer volume of attempts to login as 'admin', ov […]
- Dr. Who Returns, looking for Clara Oswin Oswald March 26, 2013The arc this season the story of Clara Oswin Oswald. I'll say no more, lest there be spoilers. (She was a Dalek once!) Tags: Doctor Who
- phyMyAdmin, mcrypt, and Centos 6: "mcrypt extension is missing" solved March 24, 2013Installing a current version of phyMyAdmin on Centos 6 turned out to be a grand pain. First, it turns out there are two packages in the rpmforge repo, "phymyadmin" and "phpMyAdmin", resulting in installations of version 2 and 3, respectively. Once past that, phpMyAdmin reports "Cannot load mcrypt extension. Please check your PHP co […]
- When the Cloud is Offline March 18, 2013Google Drive apparently went down for a couple of hours this morning. (I missed it. I was in a meeting.) This is a good reminder that you need to maintain the ability to work with your documents when the Internet or the cloud service itself is unavailable. Google has a page about setting up offline access for Google Drive documents. Do it now while you […]
- How Do You Get Started with WordPress? February 9, 2013I build WordPress websites, both "regular" sites and blogs. Are you ready for web site? Before you invest money in a blog or site, take a minute to set up a free site over at WordPress.com. My guide to setting up a WordPress site will get you started. Use your new site to sketch out the content you want on your site. Then, write your content. […]
- Wordpress Themes: Underscores AKA _S February 7, 2013Here we go again. I’m feeling comfortable with creating child themes for WordPress’ TwentyTwelve theme, using it on several sites* including my own WordPress site. Last night, at the Northside WordPress Meetup, Becky Davis reminded me of a few of the problems with the TwentyTwelve approach and suggested — for the second time — that I try the Underscores th […]
- Dynamic sidebar height and responsive themes January 3, 2013In another post, I listed the javascript to be used in a WordPress text widget to ensure that a sidebar had the same height as a page’s content. This is a nice feature if the sidebar has a background color. When the theme is responsive, the sidebar drops to the bottom, below the main content, so it should be sized to fit its own content, not that of the mai […]
- Is it about service or money? December 24, 2012Why I moved from ThrustVPS to Linode for cloud hosting: An open letter I've just moved the hosting for this system and all of the other sterndata.com web services from ThrustVPS to Linode, even though Linode is more than twice the price of ThrustVPS. When I first set up my virtual private server (VPS), I searched on price and settled on ThrustVPS for $1 […]
- How Do You Enable Better Security? Two Factor Authentication December 14, 2012What is two factor identification? Typically, we login someplace with an ID and a password. That combination is good everywhere, everyplace, everytime and is often saved on the device. It's convenient but if someone knows your ID and password, they can login anywhere and get to all your stuff controlled by that account. If it's something like a G […]
