I recently finished up a custom WordPress project for a client hosted at 1and1.com. Now, 1&1 is a pretty major hosting company, but this is the first time I’ve ever deployed WordPress there so I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Initially, everything seemed just fine — until the first … Continue reading
Back in the olden days I used to use the Sysinternals tools Filemon and Regmon when diagnosing system issues. Those were replaced years ago by another Sysinternals tool: Process Monitor. Process Monitor does it all. You can watch file, registry, processes – you name it. It shows what succeeds, what … Continue reading
If you manage Windows servers you are probably familiar with the Scheduled Tasks service. While not the fanciest job scheduler in the world, it is loaded with a decent set of features and, since it ships with the OS, arguably a lot cheaper than some of the third party options. … Continue reading
While there are quite a few ways to accomplish this, what follows is the way I typically go about showing hidden files in Windows Vista. If you have a faster or easier way, feel free to leave a comment and share the love. First, open a Windows Explorer window (WinKey … Continue reading
This is Part 4 of a multi-part series of posts discussing how I test new major releases of WordPress before upgrading my “live” sites. The first step got us rolling with a XAMPP install . Next, we copied our Live database to the test environment. The third step was the … Continue reading
