I’m walking down the street in a ginormous grey city. There are maybe one or two people on the opposite sidewalk, otherwise the street is empty, almost eerie.
View More A nightmare storyHow I hack WordPress plugins and why you should too
First off, don't do black hat hacking. This article is in no way endorsing it. I usually hack plugins because the price for premium seems quite often to be too much and close to feeling like a rip off. As it turns out, I'm usually not that far away from the truth.
View More How I hack WordPress plugins and why you should tooHow to fix WordPress CSS
Fixing the CSS on a WordPress website can be tricky. Especially given that each theme and (if I'm not wrong) plugin can add their own.
I started fixing CSS on WordPress websites with my . I started with just googling how to do this and that and eventually came up with my own pattern for fixing CSS.
View More How to fix WordPress CSSCalculus: an extremely simple introduction
A good teacher of mine defined Calculus as the study of change.
I see Calculus as a series of cool tricks to make particular calculations much easier than they would otherwise be. I'll cover where the first tricks you would likely learn in a Calculus class come from.
Let's look at this graph of y = x².
View More Calculus: an extremely simple introductionPython if, elif, else statements
The if, elif, and else statements are all there to allow for decision making in python and other programming languages as well.
Let's look at a simple if statement code:
View More Python if, elif, else statementsPython login system
My last post was about getting a quick start in python. Now it would be much more interesting to apply the knowledge to a specific task. For this reason I decided to go through a really simple login system in python where a user can register and/or login using a username and a password.
View More Python login systemPython turbo-start guide
A guide to help people new to python get a boost in learning the language
View More Python turbo-start guideHow to start up an aquarium/fish tank
- Decide what size aquarium/fish tank you want
- Get a filter, aeration, and a heater for tropical fish
- Cycle your aquarium
- Research the fish before you buy it
Having been completely new to the aquariumist hobby we were looking for information anywhere we could find it. Interestingly some details get left out very often as if they're common knowledge everyone knows anyway. I decided to share what we've learned including all the little details to hopefully make it easier you.
View More How to start up an aquarium/fish tankMoving from Apache to NGINX on Centos 7
For about 10 years , , and a few other websites of ours have been rather slow. Last time we came back to them, they were so slow (9-15 seconds), it was painful to just wait for it to load so you can hit another button in the administration panel. So we started searching for ways to speed them up. The more obvious solution was to move to a different hosting service because the ping was so slow (200 ms). Nginx, an engine many recommended to speed up a website, appeared to be a suitable option to try. We weren't exactly sure yet how it could speed up a website. So we tried a simple Nginx installation and it didn't bring much of an improvement. That's when my dad came across this blog post Notice how fast it loads? That's lightning speed! The post itself talks about how to make your website faster using Nginx and both server and client side caching. And although it does cover the main points, some stuff the author considers basic doesn't get covered. When I read through it, it left me with a lot of questions still unanswered. It took me several days to figure it all out with the help of my dad. Here I'll share with you, and for myself to refer to it later, how I went about installing Nginx.
View More Moving from Apache to NGINX on Centos 7How to get SSL/HTTPS for your website on CentOS 7
The very first time when I heard about getting https enabled for our websites I thought it was going to have to be some long tedious process that I'll never have enough stamina to complete. Turned out it's the complete opposite 🙂
View More How to get SSL/HTTPS for your website on CentOS 7