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Testing your website for speed and load times

Two easy ways to check your website’s loading time

Published by Oscar Gonzalez on: August 31, 2012 - Comments { 4 }

Optimizing your website is important; Google gives preference to faster websites, here are two simple ways to check on and improve upon the speed of your website for ultimate performance and decreased loading times. Continue reading →

Another reason I like HostGator

Published by Oscar Gonzalez on: March 30, 2012 - Comments { 0 }

When you add a new domain to your account, there is no crap about verifying the domain. Why do hosts care anyway? All they need to do when adding a domain to your account is to let you add the … Continue reading →

Move to the Cloud? The two Decisions that Matter

Published by Oscar Gonzalez on: March 11, 2012 - Comments { 0 }

I found this excellent article about “moving to the cloud.” If you’ve ever considered moving, or are in the decision making process right now, this is a great article that highlights a few key points. Budget, time and needs. Do … Continue reading →

Wappalyzer Helps Webmasters Identify Software

Published by Oscar Gonzalez on: February 7, 2012 - Comments { 0 }

This handy firefox addon will make your life easier whether you are a webmaster, systems administrator or website owner trying to know more about your website. Continue reading →

Typing Exit on TTYtter catches this as an error

TTYtter, yes Twitter from the command line

Published by Oscar Gonzalez on: October 5, 2011 - Comments { 0 }

This is mostly for the twitter-geeks and Sys Admins or those that are a mix of both. Some of the applicable uses for this program as I see it are: Updating from cron or automated tasks Updating from your terminal … Continue reading →

CSS and HTML Basics

Published by Oscar Gonzalez on: September 30, 2011 - Comments { 0 }

I’ve been spending some time recently helping people out with their websites and I thought I’d post a few tips on CSS basics. Let’s cover the difference between ID and Class when we’re talking about CSS. IDs… IDs should be … Continue reading →

MySQL Workbench, GUI for MySQL

Published by Oscar Gonzalez on: September 16, 2011 - Comments { 1 }

So a while ago, I posted about MySQL Administrator. My favorite tool to access MySQL visually. In case you didn’t know, MySQL has been retired in favor of a newer tool. If you’re looking for MySQL GUI tools, you might … Continue reading →

Vyatta, OpenSource router

Published by Oscar Gonzalez on: July 2, 2010 - Comments are closed

I’ve found one of the gems of the Open Source world, if you’re looking for a competitive and feature rich router, you should consider Vyatta. Recently I installed it and configured to be my home router. Its also worth mentioning that even though you don’t need much for your home network, Vyatta can also [...] Continue reading →

mod_headers Required when using WP Super Cache

Published by Oscar Gonzalez on: April 12, 2010 - Comments { 0 }

If you’re using your own server to run WordPress and you’re using the WP Super Cache plugin to help with performance, you might see this warning at the top of your pages in the WordPress Dashboard: mod_headers – Required to … Continue reading →

Could Apache keep Google’s regulators at bay?

Published by Oscar Gonzalez on: December 23, 2009 - Comments { 0 }

Interesting article about Open-Source licensing, Google, and Apache. An enlightening article, although it could use a little more information about some of the key points.

…because of Google's open-source licensing, "others can use our software as a base for their own products if we fail to innovate adequately." True. Google is clearly betting on its ability to innovate fast, which is incidentally also the very thing that makes the prospect of seeing its code forked so remote. Continue reading →