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Love Your Haters. Just Don’t Looove Your Haters.

Monday, November 1st, 2010
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I participated in #Blogchat this past Sunday and the morning after I saw this post by Allison Boyer from Blogworld, inspired by a Tweet I wrote, “Whatever you do, you can’t make everyone happy.  If you got a hater or two, you’re probably doing something right.”  Following is excerpt from her post:

Easy enough to say, but I also definitely understand why some people get upset when a hater starts leaving comments. We put a lot of work into our blogs, to the point where they feel like our children. If someone doesn’t like our child, that’s anger-inducing…but when someone makes fun of our child? Well, I don’t know about you, but it makes me want to lash out right back.

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Wordpress worms, and the importance of maintenance

Saturday, September 12th, 2009
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I am picky.  I like substance rather than sensationalistic drivel. I get irritated by bad prose.  I’ve been known to correct people’s grammar.  And I actually spell out “you” and “our” when I text.  As thus, I rarely find a blog post I’m willing to pass on.  (Oh, the foreshadowing!) голова болит секс

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Of course, now I’m going to tell you that I did find a blog post worth passing on.  It’s from Matt, over at wordpress.org, on how to keep wordpress secure.  But don’t just stay on the first paragraph.  This is more about wordpress.  If you’ve ever been online, if you are now online, or if you intend to be online ever, you owe it to yourself to read that, and take it to heart.  This applies to car maintenance as much as it applies to wordpress or to any other online thing you do.  Matt doesn’t sew (I dabble at it), but the premise is ageless:  an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

I’ve expounded on this before.  Coincidentally, I just read some examples in a magazine that continue to car analogy.  Tales of a forgotten oil change costing the owner the price tag of a new engine; ignored brake pads that ended up ruining the rotors; ruined transmissions; the list goes on.

This post brings it down to earth: regular maintenance is a known cost. Budget for it. Lack of regular maintenance (leading to a hacked site, for example) can cost many thousands of dollars.  I was looking at a hacked site just this week:  Over eight hours at emergency rates just to investigate.  The site may require tens of thousands of dollars worth of work to make sure that all vulnerabilities are closed.

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I guess routine maintenance is your “business decision”.  Just call me when you get hacked. I may even be nice and not add the “I told you so” tax.

Why is Your Designer Your Sysadmin Anyway? WordPress and Scaling

Thursday, June 25th, 2009
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I got an email about WordPress today.  The summary: Wordpress, at least the public version, does not scale well.  So, here I go…

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I’m not sure it’s the ‘public’ version that doesn’t scale well.  Some gripes with wordpress are really a LAMP stack gripe: Few complain about the L (Linux) and M (MySQL) parts of LAMP.  But Apache can be a hog, and PHP has the same issues as any other interpreted language.  Plus, no native db connection pooling (a downside of Apache MPM).

In benchmarks, WP out-of-the-box on an untuned server can serve an  over 600,000 requests a day.  I’d say that’s not bad for something that takes all of an hour to install.

If you want to scale beyond that, I don’t know of anything that can do so without effort.  If you want over a million requests a day, you gotta pay someone who knows what they’re doing. (more on that later). секс сайты г нальчика

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Salmonella Widget

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

 

Word Association Time, kids:

Georgia? Peanuts.  Peanuts? Salmonella.  Salmonella?  Widget!

Widget?!“, you say? 

Yes. Widget, I say. And I admit when I first saw it, I also thought that was an old pairing of words.  I mean, it’s Widget!  It hangs out with the hip crowd: social media, facebook, macs. iPhones, for crying out loud!  iPhones have widgets. “Widget” certainly does Not hang out with them FDA types.  But, like all us mere mortals have to pay taxes, so are mere technologies appropriated by all facets of government, and to the left you see a barely breathing example of the FDA Salmonella Widget.

Where do I get mine, you ask?  Well, mosey on over to the FDA.  Bring three forms of ID, a birth certificate, three passport-style photos…

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Facebook reverts to old terms of use

Monday, May 18th, 2009

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Facebook, about two weeks ago, updated its terms of use.  The Force did not like that. Here is one excerpt:

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Sure, you can choose not to use Facebook at all, but that doesn’t mean a thing. Someone can still take your photo, slap it on Facebook, and now neither you nor the author of the photo can stop Facebook from using the photo in whichever way they please

[ http://mashable.com/2009/02/16/facebook-tos-privacy/ ]

Well, fear no more, masses.  Facebook this morning informed me (and presumably you, too) that “Because of this response, we have decided to return to our previous Terms of Use”.  

Go ahead.  Pat yourselves on the back.  You deserve it.


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