Let’s face it, the world changed. Since Covid ended, we’re all working differently. Work from Home doesn’t mean you necessarily have to work from home. The truth is you can work from anywhere. Last week, I worked from my Mom’s place in Lititz, PA, and I’ve worked a few times at Wine & Whiskey’s guest house (you do read their blog, don’t you?), even at White Horse Beach in those cute Calico Seahorse Cabins. The thing is, working remote, at…
My article is on VirtualAdClub.com – This is interesting, Node-RED looks easy to use and should give us the ability to do a whole lot of interesting data amalgams that can provide next generation results for our clients. What’s it got to do with MarTech? It provides us an easy, fast way to do data mashups and more. This will be an important tool in your arsenal. Read the article at https://virtualadclub.com/node-red/
I noticed the other day that rather than becoming easier, corporate communications have become significantly harder. The dream has always been one universal way to contact people and share information that allows everyone who needs it to get it, while maintaining corporate security. Instead of creating this, we’ve ended up with a Tower of Babel in which we are forced to seek out and actively watch numerous applications. For example, on any given day these sites/apps/programs for Corporate Communications The…
Nearly two years ago I wrote about the pain in the a$$ that is wireless printers. They’re still a pain, but I thought I’d share a little trick that I’ve found that makes them a whole lot less bothersome: configuring a static IP address for them. HP has a decent video on how to manually setup a static IP address for your printer which you can see here. On many of their newer printers, if you go to the web…
Over the past couple months I’ve had a customer with on going issues. The biggest single issue was the site was slow to respond in the afternoon. The site is built on WordPress, and this was a nationally known WordPress hosting company. Whenever we asked them about the issue, we got the standard response that it was due to “your code”. However, they could not point to a simple example. We’re talking about the site taking 10-15 seconds to respond…
Preface: I’ve done some small amount of work with big data, and have a general understanding of how it works. I haven’t really seen a decent breakdown of what is happening, and felt it necessary to share. Over the past decade, Business Intelligence has really come into vogue. Companies all have many large and often unconnected databases, full of information about their customers. Thus is makes sense that they’d want to find ways to connect this data together, to reach…
Security experts are warning about a large botnet attacking WordPress sites using brute force attempts to break passwords. It is important to note that WordPress is not insecure. It is, however, a big target with a massive number of sites installed, many of which were installed by morons who use things like “God123” as their password. Do yourself a favor, protect your WordPress site from brute force attacks – hire a professional to install it or at least to run…
We’ve got another fairly interesting release from WordPress on the way – 3.6. From Mark Jaquith’s post on features: Post Formats: Post Formats now have their own UI, and theme authors have access to templating functions to access the structured data. Twenty Thirteen: We’re shipping this year’s default theme in our first release of the year. Twenty Thirteen is an opinionated, color-rich, blog-centric theme that makes full use of the new Post Formats support. Audio/Video: You can embed audio and video files into…
As I was going about my morning reading, I came across an article with this dire headline: “The Perils of Using WordPress as a Hotel Website Content Management System.” Of course, being a professional who spends much of his time working on WordPress, my interest was piqued. From the article: WordPress technology is ill-fitted to power hotel websites’ content management systems and is only adequate as a blogging technology. Hmmm…that’s a pretty serious allegation. So I read on. The crux…
Often the biggest threats come not from without, but from within. There’s a big issue looming for web and mobile developers, and if it happens, it will affect virtually everyone that uses the web. The problem is that a very large proportion of database driven websites and applications (think of the stuff on your phone) is built using a MySQL database. We developers used that particular database, in general, because it was free, and most websites can’t afford the license…