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Build Highly Performant WordPress Sites with Minio and WP Offload Media

January 4, 2021

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

December 27, 2020

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

December 27, 2020

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

June 1, 2020

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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The Unchained Developer- Free Your Workflow and Become Device Agnostic

May 5, 2020

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

May 3, 2020

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It Is Ok to Be Friends With Your Employees

April 17, 2020

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

April 6, 2020

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

March 25, 2020

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

March 17, 2020

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

March 7, 2020

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

April 20, 2017

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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