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Cloud Hosting, Speed and Other Adventures

by Ciprian on November 22, 2011 (178 days ago) | No comments
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As getButterfly started growing and new themes were added, the need for speed increased dramatically. I never thought a 5 minutes operation would make the site benefit from cloud hosting and caching, but CloudFlare thought differently. CloudFlare is a free service which caches and delivers copies of your web site pages to non-logged in users. It claims to cut bandwidth...

YouTube Redesign with New Visuals and Google+

by Ciprian on November 15, 2011 (185 days ago) | No comments
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Google+, which launched without so much as search capability, is finally starting to integrate with Google’s other services. Or, other services are being actively integrated with Google+. Lately, Google’s been working hard on integrating, enhancing, and extending Google+ across its products – and it looks like YouTube is up next, with a redesign that includes an updated look, deeper Google+ integration, and a...

Reminder: MySQL Data Types: Numbers

by Ciprian on November 11, 2011 (189 days ago) | No comments
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Integers Integers are a subset of the real numbers. They are written without a fraction or a decimal component. Integers fall within a set Z = {…, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, …} Integers are infinite. Computers can practically work only with a subset of integer values, because computers have finite capacity. Integers are used to count discrete entities. We...

Google+ for Business is Here!

by Ciprian on November 8, 2011 (192 days ago) | One comment
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Google+ Pages for business is ready, brands are now rolling out. My activity stream is filled with people showcasing their new Google+ Pages. The wait is over for Google+ Pages. Today, Google officially announced the impending arrival of new Google+ Pages for brands and businesses, a big piece of the Google+ puzzle that has been promised for months and marketers have been eagerly anticipating....

The Business Directory and Recent Work

by Ciprian on November 7, 2011 (193 days ago) | 2 comments
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The latest plugin I developed is a link directory with Google Maps and SEO/SERP details. I had it in a BETA/development state here - http://roo.ie/business-directory/ - and I did tests and added features. Without getting into any feature creep, I published version 2 of the plugin on Code Canyon, and delayed some features. As one of the customers noticed, the directory listing...