Review: Python for Informatics by Charles Severance

May 5, 2012

A free book for those who want to learn how to program in Python with a data-oriented approach.

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Some GeekBench scores spanning a decade of computing

March 21, 2012

Some GeekBench scores spanning a decade of computing: Dell Inspiron 8100, HP Pavillion zd8000, custom MSI desktop, 2007 Macbook, iPod Touch 2nd generation, MSI CX720, iPad, and 2011 Mac mini.

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Moved first site from shared hosting to VPS

February 16, 2012

Moving a first site from the safety of shared hosting to the adventure of managing your own virtual private server.

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Nginx and the importance of punctuation

October 25, 2011

Testing a new Nginx configuration revealed no errors and yet it didn’t work as planned. Lesson learned: punctuation matters for configuration files.

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Boost performance of your WordPress blog with the W3 Total Cache plugin

October 14, 2011

I started blogging with just a couple of plugins. Then I kept adding plugins until I noticed that it took almost 10 seconds to load a single page. By removing a couple of plugins, replacing some others, and following the guidelines given by YSlow I managed to reduce page load times to 2 seconds. Could the W3 Total Cache plugin reduce the page load times even further?

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Review: Nginx 1 Web Server Implementation Cookbook by Dipankar Sarkar

September 30, 2011

Nginx (pronounced engine x) is a high performance, lightweight web server and reverse proxy server. If you want to learn how to set up and manage your own Nginx web server, I CAN NOT recommend this book.

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Review: Nginx HTTP Server by Clément Nedelcu

September 30, 2011

Nginx (pronounced engine x) is a high performance, lightweight web server and reverse proxy server. If you want to learn how to set up and manage your own Nginx web server, I recommend this book.

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Review of the Apple Magic Mouse.

August 19, 2011

The Apple Magic Mouse is special: a hybrid of a mouse and a trackpad. It is also the worst pointing device I have ever used.

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20 Days of Unity (Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal)

June 15, 2011

Unity is change and change is opportunity. The more I use Unity, Ubuntu’s new user interface, the more I like it.

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Review: Getting Started with Audacity 1.3 by Bethany Hiitola (Packt)

May 2, 2011

Book review for “Getting Started with Audacity 1.3″, written by Bethany Hiitola (Packt Publishing). Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux.

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