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posted February 24th, 2010

One of the most apparent aspects of both my professional and personal life is that I am always learning. As my friends and family can tell you, I constantly have my nose in something and am very eager to share what I just learned. As I have written about what I have learned here, I have realized that I have been holding back on something important: how do I choose what I want to learn next.

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Hijack the Wordpress Media Gallery

by Simon on July 9th, 2010

This is great, thanks so much for posting. I was having problems using the wp_enqueue_script('media-upload'); - I was getting the properly sized editor but my custom

Apache Optimization and NGINX

by John Hoff on June 2nd, 2010

Tom, Two other reasons besides mod_php quickly come to mind on why I use prefork apache--mod_perl and mod_python. The solution of using NGINX as a

Apache Optimization and NGINX

by Tom D on June 2nd, 2010

Hi, Thanks for a good article. I realize most people use apache prefork because of thread safety issues with worker (or more likely because that's how

Wordpress Custom Field Search Plugin

by Tom Lany on May 28th, 2010

Thanks for sharing this! I have been needing some way to search through authors (that I store in custom fields) for along time, and

Hijack the Wordpress Media Gallery

by John Hoff on April 17th, 2010

The media-upload script needs to be called before wordpress starts sending content to the browser. By the time it starts parsing banner.php, it is

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Apache Optimization and NGINX

posted July 29th, 2009 by John Hoff

Once again, my Wordpress friends had to hit me up for some help. These are the same friends that I helped with a Custom Field Search Plugin. They have been maintaining a community site, SuccessNet Online™, and an email mailing list of several hundred thousand participants for Business Networking International.

Tags: Apache, linux, nginx, wordpress

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Breaking in a New Laptop

posted January 22nd, 2009 by John Hoff

Buying a laptop can be quite an adventure. Buying a laptop that you intend on running Linux on is guaranteed to be an adventure! I have been running Linux on laptops for about 8 years now with mixed results. I was very pleased with my previous laptop, but it was time to replace it. It had been used to the point that the it was literally falling apart. So it was time to start hitting the forums and the shopping websites.

Tags: hardware, linux, ubuntu