Category: My Work

  • What you need to know about WordPress Multi Site

    What you need to know about WordPress Multi Site

    A WordPress MultiSite is served by one code base, each site within the MultiSite uses the same database, the tables are numbered by the site which allows the separation of a site if you need to remove tables.  The user tables are still shared.

  • How To Safely Rename a Database in MySql

    How To Safely Rename a Database in MySql

    So you want to Safely Rename your MySql Database, here is a tip on how to do it. If you do not have phpmyadmin installed on your server, then below are the steps to safely rename a MySql database.

  • How to setup a MySql replication database for WordPress

    How to setup a MySql replication database for WordPress

    WordPress uses MySql database to store all the plugin options, theme options, your pages, your posts, users and comments, with more visitors your site need to be able to scale or in my case, I had user spikes (increased traffic) that took out the connection to MySql, as memory on the server was used up.…

  • How to create a Twitter List

    How to create a Twitter List

    If you follow a lot of people on Twitter, the Twitter feeds get very active, the tweets that you want to see disappear in the clutter of tweets. How to get to the tweets that you want to see. Twitter has a feature called Twitter lists.

  • The hidden OCR feature of Google Drive

    The hidden OCR feature of Google Drive

    Google Drive’s Optical Character Recognition (OCR) lets you convert images with text into text documents using automated computer algorithms. Images can be processed individually (.jpg, .png, and .gif files) or in multi-page PDF documents (.pdf).

  • How to Investigate Companies

    How to Investigate Companies

    Recently I was on an Open Data conference in Amsterdam, I meet people from OpenCorporates, they have developed a toolkit that they call Octopus. This toolkit is a series of research tools on how to investigate companies and other types of organizations.

  • Check what data Google collecting from you

    Check what data Google collecting from you

    You have probably heard about big data, for the service provider to get the data they need to be collected. One type of data is location data, location data can be collected if you have the location tracking on in your browser, mobile phone or other devices like a fitness band.

  • So you want to monitor your MySql replication database

    So you want to monitor your MySql replication database

    You have configured your MySql replication, the next step is to perform maintenance and monitor your replication. Percona Toolkit for MySQL is a collection of advanced command-line tools to perform a variety of MySQL server and system tasks.

  • Annoying Workplace Buzzwords

    Annoying Workplace Buzzwords

    In the world of business, buzzwords has been around for a long time. There are some buzzwords that are useful and even necessary, but many more are simply words that do not have any meaning and should be avoided as much as possible.

  • As software developer have you ever thought about contracting

    I have been a software developer in my early years and now in my later years, in between, I held several managerial positions in software companies. My heart has always been in programming, it gives me an outlet to express myself. Programming to me is an art form, you can give 10 programmers the same…