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Installing GeoIP on CentOS 6.x 64bit

If you don’t have EPEL installed: rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm Install the GeoIP package with dependencies: yum install GeoIP GeoIP-devel GeoIP-data zlib-devel libxml service httpd restart

5 Tell Tale Signs You Need to Upgrade Your Website

Technology’s lifespan can be related in dog years; 1 year equates to close to 7 years. Keeping this in mind, think about the Internet 7 years ago; no real mobile interface technology, no Facebook, no Twitter, no iPhones or iPads, CMS’s were complex and hard to use and websites were primarily static. A lot has […]

BuddyPress Crop Avatar to Any Ratio

Looking to get rid of the annoying aspect ratio on your BuddyPress avatar crop tool? This was very poorly documented and nowhere to be found on Google so I decided to figure this out and share the solution with the community. This is probably not the best solution as I had to modify a core […]

Oh how the times have changed. I can’t wait to see the prototype release in 2014!

3 Incredible Benefits of Using API’s

There are many of you reading this that are managers looking to get a better grasp on what an API is and how it can benefit your programmers. API is an acronym for “Application Programming Interface”. Simply put, this interface allows programmers to develop applications that communicate with an existing application or service to automate […]

Update linux DNS named serials with bash script

This will update the serials of all of your *.hosts files in the same directory that you executed the “updateserials” command in (aka `pwd`). This only updates serials that begin with the current year. Enjoy! #!/bin/bash read −p “Are you sure you want to update `pwd`/*.hosts serial numbers to `date +%Y%m%d%H` (y/n)? ” if [ […]

TOP 5 FREE Business Marketing Necessities

A great deal was learned, after recently taking inventory of our marketing agency’s own online marketing plan. We were a bit embarrassed to find that we were in fact making many of the mistakes that we so adamantly work to keep our clients from making. I’d like to share a bit of my company’s experience […]