My old Thinkpad that I used as a mini server died, and on that machine I ran an old version of Quickbooks. I have used Quickbooks for invoicing and accounting for about 7 years. It has served me well, however when the machine died I decided to look at upgrading from my 2009 version to the newest. As I …
PhoneGap 3 I recently wanted to test an idea on an android device. To quickly write up a proof of concept I decided to use PhoneGap. I have used PhoneGap in the past but the current Version 3.1 (at the time of writing) is more mature than when I previously developed with it. I was prepared to walk through a few …
I have posted a few times about my home network and in particular all the great things you can do with DDWRT or with PFsense. I recently had my home PFsense firewall have some issues, mainly to a hard drive failure. When I was replacing it, I decided to try a few different versions of firewalls. HARDWARE The hardware for my …
High Traffic WordPress Sites A few websites that I maintain get a large volume of traffic. They are using WordPress as a content management system. To accommodate this traffic I have been utilizing a combination of a great service CDN and a caching plugin. A “CDN” is a Content Delivery Network is a service that will store and forward your items …
Magento 1.8 I am a huge fan of Magento. It is a great ecommerce and shopping cart system. In the last year I have launched a few sites using this system. The flexibility of Magento allowed me to create a B2B site and also B2C. eBay purchased Magento and I have heard a few people trying to figure …