In Boston last week for the Endeca Discovery Conference. Endeca is a fast-growing Boston-based company that produces a search and navigation engine that’s being used by several major websites around the world, they’re growing by leaps and bounds every year. They have a different spin when it comes to search, they call it [...]
The company I work for has recently undergone a profoundly dumb transformation. Years ago when management seemed to care, we had a small development team striving to move toward a more Agile, test-driven methodology, we scheduled releases based on a realistic feature-set with realistic estimates and due dates. We were on top of [...]
GreatWebGuy.com is now running on Lighttpd or “Lighty” 1.5 and WordPress 2.2. The biggest hurdle we had to overcome running our blog with the Lighty http server was the rewrite rules for our custom Permalink structure - /%category%/%postname%/ - none of the rewrite rules posted on the web seemed to work correctly. If [...]
We’re still here, just been too busy to blog, it’s been a month, but we’ve done a lot.
First and foremost we found a new host and at a great price. We opted for a VPS at JTLNet, for $19.95/mo. we get 15GB of disk space, 256MB of guaranteed memory, 200GB of bandwidth [...]
It’s no news that Ubuntu has been getting a lot of press lately for it’s ease of install, ease of use, and fantastic packaging system, allowing you to install tons of software very easily. I’m writing this post from my newly installed Ubuntu laptop. I’ve done Linux installs before, many years ago and [...]
So the webguy was out and about looking for a good hosting provider and thought a good deal was found at ImHosted, well the webguy was WRONG!!
I set up the account the night before last and received my order confirmation email, which stated that I needed to activate my account, so I click [...]
Digging around today, I ran into this hack to allow Firefox to open more connections and to wait less time before rendering a page. It’s been a common hack for IE over the years, but I wasn’t aware there was something similar available for Firefox, it’s a noticeable difference if your on broadband.
In firefox, [...]