Web Developer and IT Support // Mission, BC
by Brendan
You know the worst part about focusing on function over form, and working mostly on your own? You neglect to make sure that your coding style is uniform, that you’re following best practices, and that your code is properly SPACED and INDENTED (one tab per level). A lot of times I don’t have to go …
by Brendan
Been a very interesting couple of weeks! I got married, have started blogging for MainWP (a software company that creates a management suite for WordPress developers such as myself), I created a basic extension using their framework on top of a plugin, all part of the tutorials here: http://blog.mainwp.com/creating-a-wordpress-plugin/, and am in the process of uploading a video …
by Brendan
Configured brute force protection for WordPress logins on the server today after I noticed some increasingly high CPU usage. cPHulk already monitors all of the other ports and blocks accordingly, but I needed something that would let me affect all WordPress installations at once with minimal involvement moving forward (which is why all sites have …
by Brendan
A big day and busy week! Moving to live customer testing on the database/directory project that has been in the works for the past few months, the Excelerate Conference site has their schedule of events calendar ready to go and should be completed and launched today, I have the mail server set up and ready …
by Brendan
Arguing with tech support yesterday and today – trying to explain to them that emails can be sent between accounts on the same server, which bypasses any spam filtering I have in place. They don’t get it. This is one of the reasons I’m moving servers. I also won’t have to ask to remove blacklisted …
by Brendan
I set up Softaculous on the server today. Did you know it’s only $12 a year? Only $1 a month, to save the amount of time and effort each manually created WordPress installation takes. Not to say there’s not still time involved but it is considerably less, and absolutely worth that amount.
by Brendan
After a lot of searching and comparison, I’ve decided to purchase a new VPS server for my clients and my own personal sites. I’ve run into a few email issues in the past few months, and despite the fact I’ve been with d9 for three years, and their service is great, I need to think …
by Brendan
Ah yes, a little cliche, but that’s what you get from a developer.
