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

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

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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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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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Intel vs. AMD vs. Apple Silicon

Intel vs. AMD vs. Apple Silicon

My 2 cents on the processor trends
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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