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Why WordPress should be served Cached

Hamad Subani — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:37:58 +0000

The biggest strength of Wordpress is its dynamic nature. A browser view of a Wordpress website is like a "skin" which interfaces with dynamic components under the hood. But once a Wordpress website starts growing, this also becomes the biggest weakness of Wordpress. The "skin" becomes overloaded with more and more dynamic components. and a simple pageview becomes acrimonious for the server, as it struggles to deliver a "freshly prepared skin" to the browser for each and every page view. On the user end, the lag becomes noticeable. When it comes to self-hosting Wordpress, Caching is an inevitability.

Subversion for a Casual WordPress User…Promises and Challenges

Hamad Subani — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:39:23 +0000

Subversion offers many promises for casual Wordpress users, such as the ability to update Wordpress using a single shell command. But many underlying challenges also remain. This post examines what makes the lure of Subversion so strong for Wordpress users while thoroughly discussing the challenges the author faced in an experimental deployment of Subversion. Subversion clients are also discussed. The article concludes with a "wish-list" for the ideal theoretical Subversion client.

Why Subversion is not a complete way to update WordPress

Hamad Subani — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:34:07 +0000

While Wordpress offers the functionality of upgrading core files, themes and plugins via the Dashboard, this feature cannot be used with some webhosts who are keen on security. Upgrading via FTP is time-consuming and error prone. FTP is also not very secure. To quote one webhost, "Its 2012, and you shouldn't be using FTP for anything." Subversion offers the promise of one-click one-command, lightning-fast, server side upgrades. Is Subversion the way to go or has Subversion yet to grow up for the casual Wordpress user?

Piwigo and Zenphoto; a Comparative Review

Hamad Subani — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:03:27 +0000

A comparative review of two major Open Source web-based photo galleries, Piwigo 2.3.2 and Zenphoto 1.4.1.6.

HP’s dreaded “Ink System Failure”

Hamad Subani — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:47:13 +0000

There have been numerous cases of an “ink System Failure” message popping up on HP inkjets. To give an extent of the problem, typing in “HP” and “Ink System Failure” throws up 340,000 results in Google. There appears to be no clear solution.

Have you been Clouded?

Hamad Subani — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:09:18 +0000

This graphic is an addition to one of the more popular articles on this website, Ten Reasons Why Cloud Computing is a Bad Idea.

Who killed Encyclopaedia Dramatica?

Hamad Subani — Tue, 10 May 2011 02:52:26 +0000

In April 2011, the url of Encyclopaedia Dramatica began redirecting to OhInternet. In a span of a few days, an important part of the Internet subculture Anonymous had disappeared. And was replaced by a website similar to the dozens of websites that commercialize Internet phenomena. Here’s some investigation of what may have happened.

Why do Western countries pay stupendously more for prepaid wireless service?

Hamad Subani — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 15:54:31 +0000

While Canada is home to latest developments in wireless technology (Blackberry is headquartered in Canada), wireless service in Canada features a huge price disparity compared to developing countries.

Blackberry Waiving $200 Registration Fee for App Developers for “Limited Time”

Hamad Subani — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:53:03 +0000

Blackberry waives app developer fees for "limited time"

Enabling Hardware Virtualization on a SONY VAIO VGN-CR320 Laptop – An Experience

Hamad Subani — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:47:22 +0000

SONY disabled hardware virtualization on some laptops by providing these laptops with rudimentary BIOS Unlike typical BIOS, the BIOS provided simply did not have the feature for users to enable or disable hardware virtualization. But thanks to an assortment of Internet hacks, it is possible to enable hardware virtualization on some VAIO laptops.