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Comparison of VPS Providers

How do I go about choosing a viable VPS for my websites? This article relates our personal experience dealing with several different service providers so you don’t have to. [...]

Releasing New Versions of your WordPress Plugins

If you are a WordPress plugin developer, then this post is for you. There is very little documentation on how to effectively use the WordPress Subversion repository, and the repo architecture is critically flawed in its structure making “kosher” usage seem entirely buggy. Worse yet, the support in the WordPress forums is practically non-existant. [...]

Get a Free 250 MB Upgrade by Clicking the “Get Started” Tab in Dropbox

I’ve been a happy Dropbox user since the private-beta was released a couple years ago. It’s by far my favorite file storage and syncing service, and it gives me peace of mind about backups of critical files.

If you’re an old-timer like me, you may not have noticed the Get Started tab when [...]

Basic Web Security

Web security is a huge topic, and this article only intends to cover some of the most basic issues and increase awareness of how carelessness or ignorance can lead to exploits. Ultimately, what you don’t know can hurt you, so it’s in your best interest to learn as much as you can about your [...]

Book Announcement – WordPress 2.9 e-Commerce (plus a giveaway)

In case you’ve been wondering why my number of posts dwindled in the last year, here is the reason: I’m pleased to announce the release of my first book, WordPress 2.9 e-Commerce, published through Packt Publishing.

As the name implies, this book works through the marriage of the popular WordPress software and the [...]

Comparison of Online Email Marketing Companies

If you work on commercial web-sites, eventually you find the need to add email marketing services such as newsletters and special advertisements. The article compares 4 services: Campaign Monitor vs. Constant Contact vs. Mail Chimp vs. Topica in several categories, primarily templating abilities, the usability, and the documentation. This review does not cover the [...]

Get EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard for Free (Giveaway)

Need to recover some important files? For a limited time, EASEUS is giving away a version of their Data Recovery Wizard. It ordinarily costs $70.

Giveaway Link

The Data Recovery Wizard is capable of recovering deleted files, but it can do much more. It can also help recover files on a disk partition [...]