Media Queries for Common Device Breakpoints

The @ media query is 1/3 of the recipe for responsive design, which has been a large topic of discussion with the recent announcement that Google will be making this a ranking factor for mobile searches. It is the key ingredient that, in it’s simplest for allows for specified CSS to be applied depending on…

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Extend an EC2 root volume while running

This process has been tested on multiple EC2 instances but I must state as always, you should make at least one back up and maybe a backup of your back up to be safe. This will run you through extending your root file system on a running EC2 instance with out any lengthy downtime. First…

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Share Cookies between multiple WordPress sites

/** This post is now outdated. You can find the updated version here. **/   Let me just start by saying finding information regarding this topic was plentiful, but there wasn’t really a solid way or explanation on this process. Hopefully I can make it easy enough to follow. The process is different for Multi-Site…

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Clear the DNS cache on your iPhone

Although this sounds like a complete pain to complete, it’s actually very easy with only two steps… Put your iPhone into airplane mode… wait for the network to turn off Take your iPhone out of airplane more… success! See I told you it was easy. You can also just power off your iPhone and reboot…

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Setting up your old Drupal 6 site on a new server

When moving your site from one server to another the process can be quite tedious and ultra confusing. In this post we hope to make transferring your Drupal based website ultra easy. Let me preface this entire post with the official statement from Drupal on how to properly transfer your site to a new host.…

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CPanel Open File Limits

Uh Oh! MySQL stopped connecting, now what?!? This scenario happened to us on our new AWS platform so we decided to dig a little further into the problem. Every 4-6 hours we would get a notice from our monitoring platform that we are receiving an error 500 on our website. When we check the site…

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Google acquires video and special-effects startup Zync

So I’ll start off by saying that this will be the first of may technology updates and neat articles that I’ve come across. This time Google has purchased yet another startup in hopes to push out their competition, Amazon. Google said on Tuesday that is has acquired video and special effects startup Zync. The terms…

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Free eBooks from Microsoft

Ever want to get the latest eBook from Microsoft? Don’t worry Eric Ligman, Microsoft’s Senior Sales Excellence Manager, has released over 100 free ebooks that cover everything on how to use the Windows 7 operating system to programming for mobile devises. Let’s face it, Microsoft is a part of everyone’s life and some of their…

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Screw Sexy, Be Helpful

As a business trying to gain new customers is a challenge. Then most of us are competing with bigger companies that have the resources to develop multi-million dollar ad campaigns that are viral, creative, and “sexy”. All of which are great on occasion. Instead a new trend for small businesses is to become more helpful…

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How to reach the Millennial generation with Social Media

Don’t feel bad if you are having a hard time trying to get younger people to engage with your businesses social media presence. Connecting with the millennial generation – those between the ages of 18 & 35 – is not an easy as you’d think. These kids, myself included, were raised on gadgets & the…

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