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  • How to Make WooCommerce Work with PHP7, Redis, Varnish Cache, Memcached and HTTP/2

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    I am an internet entrepreneur and was self managing my own server for the longest time. Without knowing how to use command line, what SUDO means, or being familiar with the Linux file system, I fired up a Rackspace server configured for WordPress and WooCommerce and began my journey as an online seller. Things were going fairly…

  • WooCommerce pays tribute to Breaking Bad, Crystal Meth

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    Everybody likes Breaking Bad – the TV show on FX about Walt, the high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with cancer turned meth cook and drug baron. As it turns out, the developers behind the shopping cart plugin for WordPress called WooCommerce likes Breaking Bad just as much as we do and are now referencing the…

  • Google Hangouts Integrates SMS, Doesn’t Violate Privacy

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    Our favorite privacy violator has updated Hangouts to include SMS (text) integration. According to a fierce debate, Google opted not to include SMS backups to their cloud in fear of user privacy concerns. Google is already all over my privacy so uploading my sms’ to their cloud doesn’t bother me. The stuff they got on me…

  • Jira from Atlassian Sucks

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    Jira, the project management and bug tracking software from Atlassian SUCKS BIG TIME. It sucks so much that I had to log into my website and write this rant even though I have a thousand other more pressing things to do. Jira and it’s lack of brilliance is the most irritating piece of software I…

  • Microsoft Sucks at Product Presentations

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    Screwing up a presentation is pretty easy, especially if you work for Microsoft. Just volunteer to present any of their cutting-edge products and the rest will sort itself out. Microsoft has an impressive history of embarrassing product presentations. It has become almost a tradition for each new iteration of Windows to crash on-stage to everyone else’s amusement. The…

  • The iPhone 5 is the Beginning of the End of Apple

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    And so it begins. Apple post Jobs is not what it used to be, and I knew it would happen sooner or later.The new iPhone 5 is not that groundbreaking and it feels like just about any other new smartphone: high-tech yes, groundbreaking not so much. The problem with companies like Apple is the visionary-type leader.…

  • Sour Times as Houses Seized by Banks

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    You know things are bad when you measure the performance of the economy in the rate of houses seized by banks. Nevertheless, in these sour times it is a good indicator of how screwed we really are. There should be a how-screwed-we-are index for this. Reuters reports that the rate has slightly gone down which is…

  • Innocence of Muslims vs. Life of Brian

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    I have written a lot today about censorship and politics. But this news story caught my eye. The U.S. ambassador Christopher Stephens was killed in Libya because a guy posted a video on YouTube making fun of the Muslim prophet Mohammed. If you have seen the movie Life of Brian you know the drill: a religious figure is…

  • Google Censors the Pirate Bay

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    Google’s slogan is do no evil. After reading the latest headlines about Google’s decision to censor The Pirate Bay in its auto-complete results it had me wondering if it’s time to abandon ship. It’s not the first time Google censors things – they have censored many piracy-related search terms over the past to pull their…