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EVOKNOW is a multinational e-commerce service provider and developer of the LoneTree Commerce platform.

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  • PHP — the Most Disliked Programming Language that Still Works!

    PHP — the Most Disliked Programming Language that Still Works!

    PHP is often — no, almost always — considered the lousiest language by the computer science (CS) pundits. I agree with them on many counts…
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    May 25, 2021
    How a private stackoverflow can build team knowledge base one question at a time

    How a private stackoverflow can build team knowledge base one question at a time

    In my nearly two decades of experience working with software engineers, the last thing they want to do is document their work! And even if…
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    May 8, 2021
    Failed External USB Nightmare with CentOS: Survived!

    Failed External USB Nightmare with CentOS: Survived!

    How I survived an old centos box with a failed external USB drive!
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    Apr 16, 2021
    If Biden Were a Software Engineer, his very first task…

    If Biden Were a Software Engineer, his very first task…

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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    Jan 20, 2021
    A Small Tech Team Manager’s Playbook — 18 years in making!

    A Small Tech Team Manager’s Playbook — 18 years in making!

    I manage a small team that manages an e-commerce infrastructure and software for over a decade. Here are five of my lessons learned that…
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    Dec 13, 2020
    No Meetings Weeks

    No Meetings Weeks

    Google’s way of managing employee burnout in stressful December to January 2021 is simply brilliant! Copy it for your team!
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    Nov 17, 2020
    Intel vs. AMD vs. Apple Silicon

    Intel vs. AMD vs. Apple Silicon

    My 2 cents on the processor trends
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    Nov 13, 2020
    TL; DR Review of WWDC20

    TL; DR Review of WWDC20

    No hardware news other than Apple finally coming to its senses and switching to Apple Silicon (ARM) from Intel. The rest of the updates…
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    Jun 25, 2020
    Why We Recommend CentOS Server

    Why We Recommend CentOS Server

    CentOS as a server platform for any web application has worked well for us. It is open secret that CentOS is really the free version of…
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    Jun 22, 2020
    Why We are Dropping Google Meeting and Going Back to Zoom From Next Week!

    Why We are Dropping Google Meeting and Going Back to Zoom From Next Week!

    Google makes some cool SaaS like Gmail, Google Docs, etc. but Google Meeting sucks. Here is why we are moving “back” to ZOOM from next…
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    May 23, 2020
    Wildcard SSL for Free Using Letsencrypt on CENTOS Server

    Wildcard SSL for Free Using Letsencrypt on CENTOS Server

    Our development team members each have their own dev server and often need SSL for each of our in house or customer projects. Maintaining…
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    May 17, 2020
    Speed Up Website by Automatically Optimizing PNG Images for Free w/o TinyPNG!

    Speed Up Website by Automatically Optimizing PNG Images for Free w/o TinyPNG!

    Speed up your CENTOS served website’s PNG images using PNGQUANT instead of paying for TinyPNG API every month!
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    Apr 8, 2020
    How to Identify and Cure Feature Creep (FC) in Your Startup

    How to Identify and Cure Feature Creep (FC) in Your Startup

    We often say that ideas are a dime a dozen. In tech startups, ideas in the form of cool features can be very costly.
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    Jan 27, 2020
    The Compressed Mantra of Small Software Team: Create. Ship. Repeat!

    The Compressed Mantra of Small Software Team: Create. Ship. Repeat!

    I have been developing commercial software since my sophomore year of college. I sold my very first commercial software during my…
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    Jan 19, 2020
    The 2020 Bug!

    The 2020 Bug!

    In America, we use m/d/y format to write a date in a bank check or a document, which confuses the rest of the world as they use d/m/y…
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    Jan 9, 2020
    Tech Predictions for 2020–2030

    Tech Predictions for 2020–2030

    I know tech predictions are a dime a dozen. They are more so when they are made without hardcore references or statistics behind them. I…
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    Jan 5, 2020
    Is Your E-commerce Company Ready for CCPA?

    Is Your E-commerce Company Ready for CCPA?

    California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect today — January 1st, 2020. Is your e-commerce business compliant with CCPA? In…
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    Jan 2, 2020
    A Pictorial Look at Four Industrial Revolutions: Steam Engine to Search Engine

    A Pictorial Look at Four Industrial Revolutions: Steam Engine to Search Engine

    I am fascinated by the technological advancement of humans. Technology is playing a much deeper role in modern human lives than ever…
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    Dec 31, 2019
    A Two-Dimensional (2D) Approach to Debugging Web Software Defects (Bugs)

    A Two-Dimensional (2D) Approach to Debugging Web Software Defects (Bugs)

    First off, this article does not apply to machine learning, deep learning, or more generically artificial intelligence field of…
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    Dec 12, 2019
    Amazon’s Winning Mantra: Customer Obsessed.

    Amazon’s Winning Mantra: Customer Obsessed.

    No matter what you think of Amazon today, you got to wonder how did they get here and how are they moving forward at the pace they do…
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    Dec 12, 2019
    CentOS 8: Not Ready for Prime Time Mail Server for Us!

    CentOS 8: Not Ready for Prime Time Mail Server for Us!

    We are an extreme fan of open-source Linux since the time Linux came out! I have personally written half a dozen books on the Linux server…
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    Dec 12, 2019
    How to Break an E-commerce Site’s PCI DSS Compliance in 30 Seconds!

    How to Break an E-commerce Site’s PCI DSS Compliance in 30 Seconds!

    E-commerce websites that collect credit card information directly must comply with the Payment Card Industry’s (PCI) Data Security…
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    Dec 4, 2019
    Can You Create a Small Tech Startup and Get it Acquired for 3–10x the Revenue in 1–3 yrs?

    Can You Create a Small Tech Startup and Get it Acquired for 3–10x the Revenue in 1–3 yrs?

    If you are planning to play it big on the world’s tech scene as a rockstar startup, do not read this any further. However, if you want to…
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    Nov 30, 2019
    How We Turned a Medium Publication into Our Company Website

    How We Turned a Medium Publication into Our Company Website

    As a small tech company, we don’t have a ton of news to share with the public regularly. Our website became stale over the years. However…
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    Nov 29, 2019
    Can You Answer These Five Questions about Your First For-Profit Tech Startup with Great Resolve?

    Can You Answer These Five Questions about Your First For-Profit Tech Startup with Great Resolve?

    We all hear about the few super successful tech startups that go public, and the founders make millions to billions and repeat their…
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    Nov 29, 2019
    Why Microsoft Azure Will Win Most Enterprise & Government Contracts Around the World?

    Why Microsoft Azure Will Win Most Enterprise & Government Contracts Around the World?

    Recently Microsoft Azure won a whopping ten billion dollar contract with the US government. This was a massive win for Microsoft as it…
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    Oct 27, 2019
    SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and Bare Metal: a Game of Technology Abstraction

    SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and Bare Metal: a Game of Technology Abstraction

    Tech is full of jargon. I feel like a new jargon is invented every few weeks or even every day! I think it would be very interesting if…
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    Oct 20, 2019
    How We Always Survive Linode’s Nonnegotiable Scheduled Maintenance

    How We Always Survive Linode’s Nonnegotiable Scheduled Maintenance

    We have been a loyal Linode cloud customer since 2015. As an e-commerce startup with multinational customers, our cloud infrastructure…
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    Oct 17, 2019
    Avoid this Drip Email Marketing Strategy; it Stinks!

    Avoid this Drip Email Marketing Strategy; it Stinks!

    If you are a marketer for a technology product or service, and you still love using email marketing as a lead generation tool, you must…
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    Kabir (ko-bir)
    Oct 17, 2019
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