Blog
Blog posts and ramblings to chronicle my adventures in life. This may contain technology, family, business or products that I enjoy.
About
Hi, I’m Jim. A father, husband, business owner, entrepreneur, and a person who loves technology. I semi-often update this blog.
Contact
Feel free to reach out to me with questions, contact, business ideas, projects or just a random Hello. Located in the Mitten state.
Recent Posts
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… 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… 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… Google Endorsements Google has recently made a policy change. You may have seen a notification in your gmail or Plus page. I basically just clicked on the “x” or said OK with out thinking about it. I am sure many other prople are like me and don’t take much time… I read a great blog by Troy Hunt frequently. He is an architect and MVP over at Microsoft, he typically talks about security. He recently sent out a quick tweet regarding locking your computer. After the tweet regarding what to do when someone does not lock their screen. http://www.troyhunt.com/2013/10/40-inappropriate-actions-to-take.html… If you do not know what a favicon is , it would be hard to explain with out a picture. The Favicon is the little icon that shows up in your browsers tab for a website. In this picture the favicon is highlighted, it happens to be my site’s icon. … I often have to do presentations or showcase a site or an application. I find taking pictures or showcasing the application can help many people get a sense of what I am talking about. I recently discovered a great tool to take a screenshot of your app or website using… Update for 2023 The team at TopTal has revised and updated the web checklist – Here is the updated link https://www.toptal.com/developers/webdevchecklist Great Improvement: this is a great tool to prepare for a website or application launch. — I was reading some of my news feeds and came across this great… I recently had an error show on a Magento site. The error showing was : Premature end of script headers: index.php After some searching I found that this is a common error with a few different solutions. In my case I logged into the server and looked at the apache…Zentyal vs Pfsense Firewall Review
WordPress and CDN
Magento 1.8 has been released
Google using your name and picture in ads – How to Opt Out
Fun Computer Tricks (Possible Inappropriate tricks)
Favicon–What / Why / and How
Mobile Screenshots for presentations
Web Developer Checklist
Magento : Premature end of script headers: index.php