January 2012
5 posts
Putting Pinterest on all your blog posts images
Pinterest is the next big thing - why? Because the user base is massively in favour of females. This is a new phenomenon in social networking, and its growing FAST!
I have had the pleasure of doing some work on my wife’s blog Sewing Daisies and she is very into pinterest too, as you can see on the Sewing Daisies Pinterest page, it turns out that lots of people also like her stuff so I...
Typepad connect comments on Typepad advanced...
I tore my hair out for a good while until I found this answer. So this post is for anyone who has the same issue, but cant find the documentation for putting Typepad connect comments on to advanced templates (because there isn’t any!)
Once you have done the Individual Archives template styling, go to
Blog > Settings > Comments.
The last item is:
TypePad Connect Comments...
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Varnish Cache →
Just checking out the Varnish caching server, and noticing the stack they use to serve is Apache httpd, Nginx and MySQL AND Varnish. Using nginx and Varnish is a new one on me (given that I only just discovered Varnish, so I will report back more on how this can all work!
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nginx the load balancer webserver →
I am having a good look at the nginx load balancer and webserver. It achieved its 1.0 release back in April 2011, and it runs a significant number of high profile, high traffic websites including wordpress.com and mail.ru.
Netcraft reports that in December 2011 nginx held 8.21% of the server market for the worlds busiest sites.
November 2011
2 posts
E-Commerce in Australia on the rise →
This is great that Australian E-commerce is picking up. But do you think that if the old dinosaurs (Myer and David Jones) had actually embraced e-commerce like Westfield have done that the state of play would be very different by now?
The online adventures of the department stores are very disappointing, simply putting up half arsed catalogues in a flash paper format.
So what will happen to...
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Generation Z
Me: So do you know where the post office is?
Gen Z'er: huh? I have never sent a letter in my life!
Me: Damn, that makes me feel old! hmmm ok, how about the Internet Cafe?
Gen Z'er: right, yes I know that place.