If your website is slow then people will either get annoyed with it or simply not visit it. Bottom line - you can lose money.I met Donncha in real life for the first time a few months ago and one of the things that I was anxious to talk to him about was Wordpress' speed or lack thereof, as both my own sites and those of clients etc., seemed to suffer from performance … [Read more...] about Speeding Up WordPress
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SkyCon Talk Topic
Rather than try to reinvent the wheel and in order to keep in tune with the Open Source / Technical flavour of Skycon.... I've decided to give the talk on email filtering using MailScanner... Since that sounds very uninspired I'll see if I can come up with a sexier title. How about: Mine's big enough! - Filtering 50,000 users' mail using open source technology It doesn't have … [Read more...] about SkyCon Talk Topic
Skycon Talk?
Laura has put a gun to my head. I have to decide on a topic for my talk at Skycon and I've got about 24 hours to do it. For once I won't be the only representative from Blacknight presenting!! Paul, in a possible moment of madness, also agreed to give a talk. As he's a hardcore geek he'll probably be right at home, whereas I'm a little more wary. What should I give a talk … [Read more...] about Skycon Talk?
The Danger of the “rm” command
If any of you are wondering why the theme has changed completely and several of the plugins etc., have vanished... Well I just taught myself a nice little lesson about the dangers of using the following: rm -r -f * I successfully cleaned up my blog by killing it :) Oh well! It was about time I cleaned up, as there were plugins and God only knows what else dating back about 3 … [Read more...] about The Danger of the “rm” command
CSV / MySQL Tools?
Does anyone know of a tool for working with CSV files and then importing them into MySQL? I've got a flatfile database which has a series of fields that I need to import into MySQL. Most of the fields in the orginal will map to new ones in the MySQL, while some on both sides will be ignored There's about a thousand entries in the database, so I'd rather not do it manually, as … [Read more...] about CSV / MySQL Tools?