The Cross-continental Remoter
When I was presented with the task of writing my first blog for Cheeky Monkey, the first thought that came to my mind (after the initial ‘crawl under a rock’ impulse) was to write about one of my encounters trying to wrestle with the tiny Drupal demons that lift their
The best way to explain technology
The speed of light has nothing on the speed of technology. Lately, whenever I am having a conversation with someone outside of our industry, most of my time is spent explaining all the acronyms I am using. I think that most web development companies have a tendency to speak “geek”
A PHP script for converting character set for all tables in a database
Recently I migrated a drupal site that uses an ms SQL server to MySQL. One of the conversions required me to convert all the tables from latin1_swedish_ci to utf8_general_ci character set. If you only want to convert a few tables, just execute the following SQL statement. ALTER TABLE tableName CONVERT
Your Next Web Project Will Fail Miserably
There are a number of reports in the IT world trying to quantify the percentage of software development projects (including website projects) that succeed or fail. The percentage of successful projects can be somewhere in the neighborhood of 32%. The remaining percent and majority of projects are either complete failures,
Unique Requirements: Contrib vs Custom modules
When working on larger projects, software architects and tech leads inevitably come across a few big hurdles in the project requirements for some not so “out of the box” functionality. They start asking themselves questions about the best way to approach these tasks: Can I find a contrib module that
How to connect your drupal or wordpress site to Cloudflare
Looking to increase your website performance and get a free SSL certificate? Check out CloudFlare’s free service to “supercharge” your website. Performance Cloudflare can increase performance in a few ways. First, it can distribute your content globally using its content delivery network (CDN). Secondly, it leverages browser caching and can