‘General’ Category

August 5th, 2011

Playing in the Clouds

From about mid 2009 I have been running dedicated servers, self managed.

Since then I have been following the growing trend of cloud hosting solutions.

So I have been looking into different Cloud Solutions and I am on yet another adventure.

I am going to be playing in the Clouds over at Rack Space to see what kind of bang I can get for my buck :)

The slick part about Rack Space is having CDN right there. So not only can I build server instances, I can offload the static files. ++

So off we go to build some server instances….

Stay tuned for some tips and tricks on this adventure!

August 3rd, 2011

Long Time no Write

Its been quite some time since I have written an article.

There are a lot of reasons, the biggest being time, the second reason is new adventures.

I will share a break down on some things that I have been working on, testing, and just plain old playing with.

The first one, and the biggest adventure that never ends is Linux (Ubuntu).

I started playing with it quite a while ago, and now it is my preferred desktop environment.

Since I work on Linux servers constantly all day long, using a Linux distro as a desktop really helps the process.

For instance, no FTP client is needed. I simply setup an sftp: shortcut command and away we go.

Easily setup development environments that are almost identical to a typical server.

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So you have a WordPress blog self hosted and you want to post to Facebook every time you post on your blog.
I am going to show you how to do this.
It is very easy and requires no plug-ins or additions to your site, so it is not going to cause any extra page load on your site.

The first thing you need is a Facebook account.
The second thing you need is a Fan Page.
I assume you have both of these.

Log into FaceBook and go to http://www.facebook.com/networkedblogs and click on the Go to App button next to the title NetworkedBlogs.

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February 22nd, 2011

Testing Post to Facebook

I’m in the process of testing Post to FaceBook fan pages.

Lets see if this works. :)

Well this was a success.
I will write a post about it soon.

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