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2016 Best Hosting & Dev Workflow Tips For Beginners

It’s the time of year to reflect and imagine what could be. In your planning for 2016 consider how your work gets done.  With a bit of pause & reflect you might uncover areas where you get stuck. But what if you could change how you do things, in a way that would boost your productivity?  The Positive Impact Of Progress In a study published as “The Power Of Small Wins” 238 knowledge workers were surveyed daily for four months to determine factors for positive output. The report that summarized findings from 12,000 journal entries concluded that PROGRESS is the #1 factor...
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5 Standout Comparisons of PHP 7.0 with WordPress & More

Last week PHP 7.0 was officially released. This much anticipated release includes dozens of bug fixes and some impressive new features. See more about the new features here. Most of all we’re excited about performance enhancements. How BIG are the performance enhancements? Zend showcases the comparison between older versions of PHP and PHP 7.0 for popular applications. Their results were amazing.  Magento can serve up 3x requests on the same hardware WordPress around 2x requests Drupal runs an astonishing 72% faster Frameworks like Zend and Larvel also receive substantial gains Performance comparison with PHP 7.0 is 2-10 x faster than Ruby,...
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Becoming A Developer With Purpose Greater Than Money

This is a Flashback Friday mashup. Supporting your stack and approaching development with a purpose greater than money. This might sound like an appeal to create for your favorite charity. But it’s not. We’re talking about the ethereal experience when how you do things is buzzing nicely. Tools, Tricks & Hack Your Way Happy The first time I saw someone using emacs (a living text editor) my heart skipped a beat. Did I learn how to use it? No. But it looked unreal when used by a knowledgeable developer. The same thing happened with Vim, and lately markdown (text styling) and Sublime...
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Factoring In Growth To Cloud Hosting Plans

Unless you’re required to use an ensemble of unique services to power your app, planning for scale doesn’t have to be complicated. But without understanding the options available with the development tools you’re using there’s questions: What “easy” options exist to accommodate growth? What happens when “easy” options aren’t enough? For occasional tasks that are cpu intensive, is it beneficial to scale up and back down? Are there structural tweaks that could resolve complications from rapid growth? Prepare To Discuss Scaling Your App The first step to understanding the possibilities is discovering potentials that already exist. These are features of your...
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