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Shared Hosting or Dedicated Hosting? Now it is easier to choose. 0

Shared Hosting or Dedicated Hosting? Now it is easier to choose.

When you want to host your website with a hosting proivder, one of the first choices you’ll need to make is whether to go with a dedicated server or shared hosting.

This is the key decision that this choozza helped me make. Choozza takes a different approach to this question; I defined my priorities and got the decision which was fine tuned for me.

You will make the decision based on these criteria:

10 things every software architect should consider (AKA – 10 key architectural concepts) 2

10 things every software architect should consider (AKA – 10 key architectural concepts)

After a session I gave about Scalability in Wellington NZ, one of developers asked me what are the things software architect should consider. I have gathered and compiled this list:

1. Security

Application security encompasses measures taken throughout the application’s life-cycle to prevent exceptions in the security policy of an application or the underlying system (vulnerabilities) through flaws in the design, development, deployment, upgradation, or maintenance of the application. [1]

How to: Adding wildcard pages to robots.txt 0

How to: Adding wildcard pages to robots.txt

Sometimes we want to exclude a page from search engines. For example, repetitive pages that might lead to page rank penalties.

If you want to exclude pages with a specific name from several locations in your site – for example you might have a comments.php or a help.php in multiple parts of your site, and you want to hide it from search engines, you need to modify robots.txt.

Here is how you do it:
1) Create or edit robots.txt in the root of your site

Generate and Format Last Updated in PHP 0

Generate and Format Last Updated in PHP

As a reader of many on line product reviews, I am always interested in the time this review is relevant for. As time pass things change and review get stale.

If you have this need as a webmaster and your review is file based (as appose to DB) you can use the filemtime function to automatically generate the last updated:


$LAST_UPDATED = date ("F d Y", filemtime('review.php'));

Where review.php is the file that holds the product review for example.

What’s a shareholders’ agreement? 0

What’s a shareholders’ agreement?

You have a great idea for the next big startup and a good friend or two to implement it. It does not matter if it is an Open Source or Non Open Source company you got to know your basics:

Does the open source professional services business model suck? 2

Does the open source professional services business model suck?

Today I participated and lectured at an open source event. It was great to meet enthusiastic people that believe in something bigger then themselves. These events are always a mixture of young people full of vigor and need for rebellion as well as more balanced older people that have believed in open source for a long time.

I have been intrigued with open source and open source business models for a long time now, so I might belong to the second group.