ShareX makes marking up a screen for documentation purposes a breeze. Why? Because you can capture info off the screen, instead of having to create an image file-this solves two problems. It doesn’t interrupt your work flow, and you can … Read more
Thus, killing two birds with one stone: I’ve wanted a Linux PC for a while, but I didn’t want to sacrifice one of my Windows PC to do it/ and my cheap Acer c720 Chrome book was starting to get … Read more
You’ll need to size your VPS for the amount of data, mostly images, that you plan on eventually loading. One of the advantages of a VPS, though, is that you can expand it on-the-go very easily, so go ahead and … Read more
CA (Collective Access) is a very popular application for large museum and archive collections. It was developed by Whirl-i-Gig, but is a free product. The app is great, but it has two main problems: it requires a high degree of … Read more
Query Monitor solved my problem After helping a friend test drive a couple of plugins, one of my sites started behaving badly. The load time went from 2 seconds to 5, which is not acceptable. Everything worked fine, I just … Read more
Life On the Off-ramp Since I’ve retired (life’s career off-ramp), my attitude has changed on a lot of things: politics, self reflection, work habits (that’s a joke). With the Covid Crisis, life is more like having a wreck heading down … Read more
Update–this article is pretty much out of date now. Between using GeneratePress as a theme, and WordPress Full Site Editor, this can all be accomplished with those tools. It does offer some useful information if you want to use header … Read more
Some of us have heard about NJ’s call for COBOL programmers, and those who perked up their ears at that, will find this podcast hilarious. The commentators talk about this “ancient” language and what it would take to bring it … Read more
Breadcrumbs can be so frustrating, yet so useful. They give users a shortcut to other parts of your website, as well as a snapshot of the site hierarchy. But, you have to implement them correctly. This is how I accidentally … Read more
Got this for one penny at Amazon. Of course, shipping was $3.99, but it’s still a great deal. The book doesn’t have a boiler plate of tools to use for hacking, but it does give a good sales pitch about … Read more