In my earlier blog post I spoke about Content Curation and how to quickly add content to your website but what I found in the process is that as the posts showed on my homepage of my blog they were rather boring looking and really needed a feature image to make it stand out. Boring […]
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So Windows Server is a fantastic environment for PHP, it has only improved and will only continue to improve. However, CURL no longer bundles the root certificates in any builds and this causes problems when you look to leverage curl to do something like call an API with HTTPS in the URL. Some will recommend
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After upgrading to WordPress 3.5 you may get an error message: Download failed. Destination directory for file streaming does not exist or is not writable. In version 3.5 they introduced a new variable in the wp-config.php file called WP_TEMP_DIR. The resolution for this error is to add: /* Setup a temporary folder for uploading and
Last year I attended the San Francisco WordCamp because I wanted to see what the Core WordPress team had to say about WordPress Hosting on Windows. Sadly, it was my experience there that they’re still not very Windows friendly. I personally believe it’s one of two reasons: There’s still this mentality that Microsoft is Evil
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3 Blog posts to say “Hey I’m running on my site load balanced using ARR”. This is the third and hopefully last blog post for tonight. I posted two other posts tonight: Discusses the first stage of Applied Innovations Cloud Initiative. Discusses ARR & Load balancing. All of this was to explain how I’m running
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Tired of trying to find just the right wordpress theme? There’s millions of them to choose from afterall. Would love to create your own but have less artistic talent now than you did in Kindergarten with a box of busted chunks of crayolas? (You know what I’m talking about. First week of school you had
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Today I moved my database from a MySQL 4 database server to a MySQL 5 database server, for no reason other than to move to 5. But I found a ton of tables in my database for various plugins that I knew I was no longer using. In fact, I had disabled ALL plugins shortly
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PHP on Windows Server is gaining great popularity thanks to Windows Hosts that support PHP like us (Applied Innovations), the work Microsoft and Zend are doing together to make PHP even faster on Windows and the large number of PHP developers that realize Apache represents only a piece of the total website/ webserver market out
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One of my favorite applications is Windows Live Writer. It’s a simple to use WYSIWYG blog editor that I’ve wrote about many times. I’ve been using it for probably over a year now and not too long ago it came out of beta. One of the things I truly enjoy with Windows Live Writer is
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It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about anything so I thought I’d toss it out there that Applied Innovations has commissioned the design of 3 wordpress themes and are giving these away for FREE to the wordpress community. As everyone that reads my blog knows I’m a big advocate of wordpress as a blogging
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