Braxton in Austin

I am working on a rails-based project that we have decided to host in the cloud.  We have decided to go with Amazon Web Services.  We will be using EC2 and with an Elastic IP.  We are looking into Cloudfront as well.  So far I have created my account and launched my instance which was [...]

I just ran the auto-upgrade for this blog to bring it to 2.8.  This is the first time I have ever used the built-in auto-upgrade.  Most of my sites and clients’ sites are hosted on Dreamhost so I have always used their one-click installers which have been awesome.  Then Wordpress came out with the built-in [...]

Today I had a near crisis on my hands. We use a Drobo to hold most of our day to day files. It contains roughly a terabyte of data. We have been using for well over a year now, actually probably closer to two.  It has worked great for us thus far [...]

I maintain several Wordpress installations and always use most of the same plugins.  I can’t ever remember which ones I need to install when I setup a new one, so this is mainly a reference for myself.  I use some different ones here and there, but these are the main ones I use.

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