One of the smarter new features in Word Press 3.7 is the auto update feature. But what if you don’t want your CMS automatically updating? How do you turn off the auto update feature? Continue reading “Disabling Word Press Auto Update”
Disabling Word Press Auto Update
I sent you a radio report, a helicopter and a guy in a rowboat
Great parable, used in the West Wing – season one, Take This Sabbath Day – and one to remember. Continue reading “I sent you a radio report, a helicopter and a guy in a rowboat”
Rule of thumb: Temporary usually means long term
Rule of thumb: When deploying any “temporary” technology solution into production environments build and design it on the assumption that – despite all assurances – it will become a critical piece of infrastructure and will need to last at least 3 years. Continue reading “Rule of thumb: Temporary usually means long term”
Blogs, I’ve had a few
As mentioned here, over the years I’ve set up, run and sold a few blogs. Continue reading “Blogs, I’ve had a few”
WordPress Time Savers : Better internal search
You’ll want this plugin! For timesaving I can’t think of another plugin that’s saved me as much effort or time.
Continue reading “WordPress Time Savers : Better internal search”
Cool tips with Curl: hacking http
Looking for a tool to test a website? Curl is the often the first tool in my toolbox and with these handy Curl tips you can diagnose many webserver issues. Continue reading “Cool tips with Curl: hacking http”
Found: The shortest URL creator
Whether you’re sending a link to a friend, sharing on social media or book marking a website for the future URL shorteners are incredibly useful. And just recently I came across a URL shortener that produces the shortest URLs yet. Continue reading “Found: The shortest URL creator”
Six Steps to Effective, Powerful, Delegation
Done correctly delegation is a force multiplier, allows you to focus your energies where you can be most effective and a powerful tool in helping the development of your team and keeping key members challenged with new exciting work. Sadly, for many managers it’s a lost art, and in some cases, a never discovered art but to succeed it’s a skill all tech managers need to master. Continue reading “Six Steps to Effective, Powerful, Delegation”
Marsh Myths, Legends and Local Tales
With a history dating back at least 1000 years, close affilation to nature and sea and atmosphere the Romney Marshes have more than their fair share of myths, legends and stories. Continue reading “Marsh Myths, Legends and Local Tales”
Akamai should support edns-client-subnet
There’s a revealing article on CDN Planet about the support of edns-client-subnet information by CDN providers and in particular those don’t do anycast for HTTP or support edns-client-subnet, eg: Akamai, CDNetworks, CloudFront, Fastly, Internap, Level3 and Limelight, and it’s sister post Real-world CDN performance for Google DNS and OpenDNS users. Continue reading “Akamai should support edns-client-subnet”
Hello and welcome. I'm Andy Leaning and this is my blog where I write about Word Press, media web ops, geekery, hacking and life in general.
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