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Build Highly Performant WordPress Sites with Minio and WP Offload Media

WordPress is the leading content management system and it is often thought that WordPress cannot scale. That assertion is a bit misleading. It is true that

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How to Use the Maxmind Javascript API to Control Content by City, State, or Country

Controlling what a website visitor sees, based on their geo location, is a fairly common activity today. Most often, this happens on the server, before the

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JWT User Authentication API with Lumen

Lumen is a great framework to build an API off of, but it does not come with user authentication or authorization. I needed to create a small API that allo

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Using An iPad For Web Development

Using An iPad For Web Development

My obsession with using an iPad for web development started all the way back with the first generation iPad. Tools then were sparse, but I made it work by

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Unchained developer

The Unchained Developer- Free Your Workflow and Become Device Agnostic

Back in 2011, I was getting frustrated with my aging development machine. It could barely keep up with me, though I resisted getting a new machine because

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How to Stay Calm Amidst a Crisis

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It Is Ok to Be Friends With Your Employees

New articles are constantly popping up in front of me. Good writers say a great title is what draws readers to your content, and they must be right because

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11 Traits Leaders Must Role Model

Susan stood there eyeing the trash receptacles with disgust and trepidation. The dinner rush had been particularly busy that night and all six of the large

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How to help employees gain confidence in their work

I had recently moved from another organization to serve as the Director of Engineering at a rapidly growing startup. The founders brought me in to rebuild

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The top 2 qualities you must have to be promoted to a leadership position

The top 2 qualities you must have to be promoted to a leadership position

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Wrong Way Sign

The #1 mistake leaders make when learning to coach their team

In the early years of my career I rose through the ranks pretty rapidly. I had an uncanny ability to see the big picture and work at both a high and low le

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Level Up Your Team with a Few Simple Leadership Principles

Level Up Your Team with a Few Simple Leadership Principles

Look across the world today, and it is astounding to see what humanity has built. All humans have amazing creative capabilities that can be tapped into to

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