My second time running in auto-slalom at the Western Speedway in Langford, BC was in March of 2015. It’s definitely a rush! Lots of tire squealing and kicking the backend out in a friends Porsche 944.
Get $10 Free at DigitalOcean
I’m moved my hosting to DigitalOcean. To celebrate just follow this link to get a $10 credit. #sofast
Auto Inspiration: The Donkervoort D8 GTO
I love lightweight sports cars, the Lotus 7, the Ac Shelby Cobra, and the Lotus Exige among other. I also love modern retro cars, like the newest Dodge Charger and Challenger. But check this out a modern take on the Lotus 7, the Donkervoort D8 GTO.
Challenges of non Technical Managers
This popped up on a friends facebook feed, and it perfectly summed up my past few weeks to months.
Check out the original source at, http://xkcd.com/1425/, browser through and check out some great comics.
Amazing Tech – Google Developing a contact lens for Diabetics
Diabetes is a growing concern around the World, and something very personal to me as I developed Type 1 diabetes in my early 20s.
Now in a normal day most diabetics check blood sugars between 4 and 8 times by pricking there finger and using a glucose meter. Google’s new technology would allow diabetics to have blood sugars continuously monitored. There are several advantages to this, and will change many diabetics life making it that much easier. One huge advantage of this is greatly reducing the risk of dangerously low blood sugars during exercise. It has the potential to provide immediate warnings when ever blood sugars fall out of the normal range.
Read the full article from the Google Blog – Introducing our smart contact lens project.
Manage Multiple WordPress Site with Infinite WordPress
Are you a developer or designer with multiple WordPress sites to manage and update, either your own or client sites? Do you need to manage and upgrade the WordPress core and Themes often? Infinite WordPress is the solution for you!
What it is
Infinite WordPress is a self hosted tool to manage multiple WordPress sites hosted on different servers, and install from an easy to use centralized dashboard.
The basic package is free, and allows you to one click updates all sites, run instant backups, plus manage your plugins and themes. Additional modules can be purchased to do a variety of tasks from displaying Google Analytics, schedule backups, send reports to clients, uptime monitors, the ability to backup to repositories and more.
Easy to Use
One of the best things about Infinite WordPress is is that it is easy to use. If you can install WordPress you can install Infinite WordPress. The core package get uploaded to your desired url, or sub url, once you go to the location of the folder you are walked through an easy install. A simple plugin goes on each WordPress site you need to manage, and you follow the steps on screen, and you’re ready to go!
Alternatives
There are a few alternatives, however they are paid alternatives.
ManageWP is the first one which is a hosted solution which offers similar features and starts at about $0.80 per site per month, and more for more advanced features. Two of the biggest advantages of ManageWP are IOS and Android Aps, something that is promised for Infinite WordPress.
WP Remote is a simple solution that is free for basic features. If you want to run automatic backups it will cost you $5 a month. However I’m not the biggest fan of the the user interface.
My choice is the Infinite WordPress solution. The freemium model is the most cost effective over the long run, and with a developer API coming soon it is sure to be the most extensible. The user interface is easy and clean, so I sugest you check it out now, and we all know keeping your WordPress core and Plugins up to date is one of the best things you can do for security.
New ‘WindDude.com’ Beta Site Live
For the last week I’ve been working on a new site for winddude.com and I’m proud to announce the Beat version is alive. The theme is still in development, I have a few more features to work out specific to the WindDude webpage, and a few minor things to tweak, once I’m happy with it there I am pleased to announce I will develop the theme for public use.
Here are some of the features already implemented:
- Large featured header image (this may become a slider)
- Masonry / Pintrest style layout
- Fluid and Responsive Layout
- Widget enabled Sidebar and Footer
- Sticky Widget area on the homepage
- Custom Logo Upload
- Infinite Scroll on Trigger
- Plus much much more!
Check it out at WindDude.com
Billabong Loses Half of Market Value as Takeover Talks End
What’s happened to Billabong? The 40 year old Australian Surf wear giant has recently lost half of it’s stock market value. Is the reason for the dip due to economy, a consumer willingness to buy ‘Poser’ brands such as Hollister, or other reasons? In the article below Bloomberg takes a look at the stock price of the surf wear giant.
This Week On The Web
I do a lot of time reading on the web, usually flipping through content on my android smart phone via Flipboard. Here are 8 helpfull and interesting articles from around the web.
25 Tech Terms Every Entrepreneur Should Know – Here are 25 terms every small business owner needs to know, from Mashable.
Why Google banned brainteasers from their interview process – Google has recently made changes to there hiring process, after making brain teasers famous they have reportedly gotten rid of them.
8 New and Underappreciated Marketing Resources from Google – 8 marketing resources for SEO’s and marketers beyond Google Analytics, Apps, the AdWords Keywords Tools.
3 Kickstarter Campaigns That Went Horribly Wrong – 3 kickstarter campaigns that didn’t go as planned or did, depending on who you ask.
7 things to think about before creating a logo for your startup – Creating a logo can be a challenging task, here is a list of 7 things to think about before creating your logo.
The creepier web tracking technology that will replace cookies – Cookies are on the way out, here is a look from the Globe and Mail what future technology might hold.
Fix Your Mobile Site–or Face a Google Demotion – Mobile sites are more important then ever before and beware; If your site isn’t mobile friendly or creates a headache for smartphone users, Google will punish you.
Avoid startup failure – Don’t make these 7 mistakes – A large majority of startups fail, here are 7 mistakes to avoid.
The WordPress Theme Customizer – The ultimate developers guide from Theme Foundation
The Theme Customizer was an exciting new development from WordPress 3.4. The Theme Customizer allows a user to tweak the theme settings using a WYSIWYG interface, and a real time preview. The customizer replaces custom theme option pages, giving developers a whole new set of tools and options to give to users.
With it being a relatively new featuring documentation isn’t as readily available and tutorials are harder to come by, but I found one exceptional tutorial from the Theme Foundation that walks you through a detailed explanation of adding support for the WordPress theme customizer to your WordPress theme, using the theme_mod method.
See the Tutorial here: http://themefoundation.com/wordpress-theme-customizer/