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9 Years of Blogging: Lessons from the Trenches 20 May 2013 | 11:46 pm
It is May 20 today and that means two things. First, it’s the 5 year birthday of this handsome boy. Without a doubt, his day will be filled with belly rubs and snacks… as it should be. But secondly, ...
I hate social networking 2 May 2013 | 05:21 am
I hate social networking. I despise it. All of it. For me it’s a tool (like me, some would say). “But, Aaron. You have 1500 friends on Facebook and nearly 10,000 on Twitter. You’re lying.” Oh but I...
Two-Factor Authentication: What it is and Why You Should be Using it Now 26 Apr 2013 | 08:46 pm
Photo by m thierry on Flickr. Not too long ago, WordPress sites around the world started getting attacked with automated botnet traffic trying to brute force admin passwords. The other day, the offi...
WordPress Hacking and Cleanup 13 Apr 2013 | 04:34 am
There’s a brute force attack underway on a global scale. Massive. The attack vector? Keep attempting user/pass combos in an automated way until a breakin happens. If your WordPress site gets hacked, ...
Abusing Twitter Direct Messages, Spam and Classlessness 11 Apr 2013 | 08:01 pm
This morning I received a Twitter direct message from the official account for I hate JJ Reddick, one of the best Baltimore sports blogs I know of. I like these guys. I read the blog almost every day ...
Sublime 2 Power Tools 28 Mar 2013 | 06:24 pm
This is a very advanced technical article. For years, as a developer, I used the fantastic Textmate software for writing code. I got used to it. It’s a power editor for Mac OS X and has bundle suppor...
TUTORIAL: Developing Locally on WordPress with Remote Database Over SSH 15 Mar 2013 | 09:32 pm
Today, I went about setting up a local WordPress install for some development I am doing at work. The problem that existed is that I didn’t want to bring the database from the existing development ser...
New York Wins Because It Has More Girls (and other tidbits of insanity from the tech community) 12 Feb 2013 | 06:00 am
Ladies and gentlemen, we don’t live in a fantasy world where we get to define truth and memorex. There are many areas of life that are grey areas. Then there’s right and wrong, correct and incorrect, ...
I Fired Myself 9 Jan 2013 | 08:59 pm
If we’re friends on Facebook or Twitter, you know about my new job in Baltimore. Technically, it’s not a new job yet, as I don’t start until February 4. However, it’s a new job and a return, for the f...
For Photographers, Instagram Square Photos are Worse than a TOS Update 18 Dec 2012 | 10:11 pm
I’m a photographer and I use both my iPhone 4S and my Digital SLR to take photos. There’s a difference between taking pictures and taking photos, however, and the nuance is an important thing to unde...
