Hey Amazon! Thanks for allowing us to play with the EC2 Micro Site for Free! I am having fun time playing with it. I am amazed how bad my Linux skills have gotten, but at least I have a new server to play with and learn more about. I think I am going to move this blog to the Amazon EC2 cloud, so I can learn more about it in the real world. For those looking to do it, I…
Today, I was looking through my Google Analytics account and found something new. In reality, it is not really that new; I am just late finding it. The feature that I am speaking about is called Site Speed. Site Speed is a feature that I am most excited about as it offers us Google’s perspective on the average time it takes to load various pages on our websites. This is not blinded aggregated benchmarks but the actual load times for various pages…
It is great when a few things come together all at once especially when all of it was completely unexpected. I have not been doing much on my blog over the last several months but have recently decided to start getting more involved with it again. My old theme was not compatible with the latest version of WordPress, so I moved to another theme and made a few changes in my plug-ins. I was not thrilled with these changes, but…
It is no secret for people who generate online content that they often have to deal with problems that arise from participants in the comment forum. From the inevitable spammers to the general antisocial types, it just comes with the territory. Personally, I have been very fortunate that I do not attract the antisocial types to my various channels of online communication. I find that the IT crowd tends to be a little more sedate. However, this is not the…