The Simplest Local Web Server
For local development or testing, most techies have their favourite environment such as Docker, VMware or XAMPP/WAMP/MAMP. However, I came
For local development or testing, most techies have their favourite environment such as Docker, VMware or XAMPP/WAMP/MAMP. However, I came
Short answer: Yes it does. However, WordPress is definitely better suited to Unix/Linux-based operating systems and web server stack. WordPress
As a WooCommerce person, I still work with, and actually like other platforms like Shopify and BigCommerce, so I’m looking
Elementor Page Builder for WordPress has changed the face of the WordPress space in a big way. It allows for
If you ever need to switch from an old domain name to a new domain name in nginx, you can
At the Melbourne SEO Meetup this week, I gave a talk on Google Data Studio. Data Studio is an incredibly
I recently caught up with a good friend of mine John Mckenna, who is a regular podcaster and commentator. As long as I’ve
Last month at the Melbourne WordPress Meetup, we held an open Q&A panel. The vast majority of questions were related
The topic of “who is a good Australian web host” is something that often comes up at various tech events.
Yesterday evening I gave a talk on WordPress Hosting Basics. Thanks to everyone that came along, it was interesting to
One of the reasons why WordPress is popular is because of the massive ecosystem that surrounds the project. The WordPress
Last night, as part of the Melbourne SEO Meetup – we ran a quick “site clinic”, where a few of
I recently had an issue with a popular online publisher not being indexed as frequently as they should have. They
One of the most common questions I get asked when working on WordPress web development projects is “how can I
WooCommerce was the topic at the Melbourne WordPress User Meetup earlier this week, where I gave an introduction to the
With information security being one of my passions, it was great fun to present at the Melbourne WordPress Developers Meetup
Page speed is important if we care about our users. We know more and more visitors are accessing our websites
The Big Digital Adelaide conference kicked off this week – from June 7-8, 2016 at The Science Exchange. Below you’ll find a
The Search Marketing Summit (SMS) is currently being held in Sydney, Australia from 1st June – 2nd June 2016. Advanced
As a lover of all things tech and marketing, Adelaide’s newest and most exciting digital marketing conference was definitely something
The Melbourne SEO Meetup tried something different for our April event. This month we streamed the live meeting at Melbourne
Last night John and Rosemary from the Web Directions team held the event What Do You Know (WDYK). Web Directions
The “DROWN Attack” is the name given to a recent vulnerability impacting on some servers running SSLv2. This page contains
The Melbourne SEO Meetup took place tonight, with Sue Ellson talking about LinkedIn and myself talking about Accelerated Mobile Pages,
Last night I was lucky enough to be invited on to the Byte Into IT show on Triple R to
WordPress Security was the topic of focus at the local Melbourne WordPress User Meetup. Amelia Briscoe covered .htaccess and Tristan
Next week, I’m set to be part of the Melbourne Spring Fashion Week calendar of events. For me, a Think
SEO is always a fun topic to talk about. It’s a fast-moving, vast topic, that always leads to interesting and
Thanks to everyone that braved the chilly evening to come along to Envato in Melbourne for one of their #Envatotalks
SEO training is a sought after service and something I get quite a few email questions about. There a few companies
WordPress Developers and Users came together at the Queensland University of Technology, for the first WordCamp held in Brisbane, Australia.
WordPress is everywhere you turn, it’s by far the one the most popular web platforms in use today. One of
SMX Sydney 2015 (#smxsydney or #smxsyd15) took place this year at the SMC Conference and Function Centre on Goulburn Street in the
WordPress Menus might not be a very “cool” topic, but a solid site structure and user friendly navigation is an extremely
WordPress training seems to be a common question I get via my contact form, so I thought I’d post about
Choosing the right WordPress Theme is critical, the success of your site is riding on it. Last night I took
You’ve probably heard about the ‘Poodle’ vulnerability, it’s been front page news on most tech new sites today. Poodle is
Shellshock (or Shell Shocker) is the name given to a recent vulnerability affecting systems running the Bash shell. Bash is the
OpenSSL is a software package and developer library that programmers have used to create the systems used for encrypted communications
If you’re learning about WordPress and looking for some help getting started, here’s a presentation I gave at the Melbourne
Here are some slides from a presentation I gave at the Melbourne WordPress Meetup on the topic of WordPress, Domain
Here is the slide deck from a presentation given at the October 2013 Melbourne WordPress Meetup by myself, Peter Mead
Thanks to everyone that came along to my talk at the Melbourne SEO Meetup on Web Performance Optimisation. Here is
If you haven’t already heard, WordCamp 2013 is on in Melbourne! It’s a fantastic community-focused event and the line up
Formulas are a quick and easy way to get useful and meaningful data calculated, validated and displayed in Salesforce. The
If you’ve caught up with me lately chances are you’ve heard me rabbiting on about WordCamp. WordCamp is an informal
With the help of a few friends, I’ve started up free WordPress training workshops in Australia, along with a website
Phishing messages are messages (typically email) that claim to be from a legitimate source such as a well known bank,
There is no such thing as absolute security, so make sure you have regular backups and apply updates early and
If you’re interested in giving your iPhone and iPad users a nice shiny (or even not-so-shiny!) icon when they add
If you have any spare IT gear laying around gathering dust, donate it to the Queensland Floods IT Relief Programme.
If you run Nagios and are interested in displaying your statuses on a large screen, CoffeeSaint may be worth looking
A while ago I came across twill whilst working on a testing project and thought others may also be interested.
If you can afford to do so, please donate generously to the victims of the Victorian bushfires. OurCommunity has several
Thanks to everyone that came along tonight to hear my talk on Google Mapplets at the Adobe User Group. The
The 2008 SAGE-AU Victorian IT Symposium is a one day technical conference held in Melbourne. It is organised by the
I went along to the first Melbourne Flex User Group meeting tonight, OzFlex. I must say it was exciting to
If you’re using Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), there may come a day when you need to move the
The local Adobe User Group is canvassing Aussies about the possibility of a Flex event in Melbourne. Adobe Platform Evangelist
Due to a cancellation of one of the speakers at the Melbourne Adobe User Group meeting, I gave a quick
For anyone interested in web technologies, I’ll be doing a talk tonight on Microformats at the Melbourne Adobe User Group.
The Open Source Developers’ Conference 2007 is a conference designed by open source developers, for developers and business people. It
The MySQL User Group is well and truly alive in Melbourne, so make sure you enter this one in your
A Call for Papers for the OWASP Australia Security Conference 2008 was posted on the OWASP Australia list today. This
SAGE-VIC have been invited to attend the first Freebase user group meeting outside of the US. Since a few SAGE-AU
Thanks to everyone that came along to the SAGE-AU Victoria Spam Open Forum. Again, it was a very interesting to
Thanks for everyone that came along to my presentation titled “Insecurity 2.0 – Securing Next Generation and Rich Internet Applications”.
Shane Morris, User Experience Evangelist for Microsoft Australia, will discuss how he sees design leading innovation in consumer and enterprise
Melbourne Ruby meetup Thursday night A reminder that the Melbourne Ruby User Group is meeting on Thursday night (July 26),
Melbourne Adobe User Group Meeting When? Evening of Thursday 19th July 2007, 6PM to 9PM. Dual presentation by Brian Chau:
SAGE-AU Victorian Chapter Meeting – Tuesday 10th July 2007 DATE: Tuesday 10th July 2007 TIME: 7:00 PM till 8:00 PM
SAGE-AU is pleased to announce the fifteenth annual Australian System Administrators’ conference (SAGE-AU’2007) will be held at the Sebel Parramatta
Date: Thursday 12th July 2007 Time: 7.00pm Address Hitwise Melbourne Level 6, 580 St Kilda Rd Melbourne Expression Studio Round
I’m taking a break from work for a few weeks, and even though I *won’t* be enabling an “out of
I’ll be presenting “Overview of Adobe Apollo” to the Adobe User Group in Melbourne on Thursday 19th April 2007, you
There’s been quite a bit of interest in the event below so I thought it may be worth making the
The SAGE-AU Victorian IT Symposium is a one day technical conference to be held in Melbourne. The symposium offers an
Yet another OSDC conference has come and gone. It was a great chance to meet lots of cool people and
The Open Source Developers’ Conference (OSDC) is back for it’s third year! OSDC will cover a diverse mixture of langauges,
If you’re yet to hear about Google Sitemaps, here’s a quick overview of what it is and how it works.
RUXCON is a conference for the Australian computer security community held at the University of Technology in Sydney. The list
The SAGE-AU Victorian regional chapter will hold it’s third annual IT Symposium on April 28th, 2006 at the Grand Chancellor
linux.conf.au is the annual Australian Linux technical conference, and is one of the largest gatherings of users and developers of
A friend of mine asked me to troubleshoot a problem he was having with authenticating to an SSH server. Like
Thanks to all that attended my presentation on Monitoring with Nagios at the OSDC 2005 conference. You can download the
There are now devices (or at least more of them) that provide native OS X drivers, so this document is
The Open Source Developers’ Conference (OSDC) is back! OSDC will showcase over 160 delegates, including lots of local talent along
As an O’Reilly “Hacks” fan, I got myself a copy of BSD Hacks hoping to learn only a few tips
I recently wrote an article for Macromedia’s The Edge newsletter briefly summarising the benefit of using alternative web browsers, in
I’ve just started taking bookings for a 1 day training course on the topic of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). I
If the Windows XP Bootloader gets erased or corrupted, you can repair it without a complete reinstall. Below describes how
Search Engine Positioning by Fredrick W. Marckini When this book was written (2001!), this title was the only book you
Molly Holzschlag, Eric Meyer, Tantek Çelik, Jeff Veen, Kelly Goto, Douglas Bowman, Derek Featherstone, Dean Jackson, Cameron Adams, John Allsopp,
Broadband technology (as with most information technology for that matter) has come a long way in the past few years,
Ok, so you’ve got data on ISO’s (or CDROM) you need to access all the time, for example the images
If you’ve got a few boxes around your workspace, you occasionally might like to be logged on as root (you
This article is still ongoing. I decided to publish it because I figured it still might help some individuals even
News aggregation built into your browser! If you’re using the latest version of Firefox (at the time of writing PR1),
Update – This title is now in it’s second edition. Google Hacks Author: Tara Calishain , Rael Dornfest Publisher: O’Reilly
phpinfo is one of the most handy functions a PHP programmer needs to know about, especially when it comes time
Checking if Perl is working for the shell-deprived. Perl is a very popular language and a common question I here
Security Warrior Author: By Cyrus Peikari, Anton Chuvakin Publisher: O’Reilly Online Catalog: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ ISBN: 0-596-00545-8 Price: $AUS90.00 approx. Having read
We’ve all seen the dreaded 404 error page as shown below.
If you run servers offering SSH connections (you are using SSH right? If not, stop reading this immediately and go
If you didn’t already know, I love Apache. Defining a favicon is a nice detail to add to your site,
This guide was originally written for the Melbourne PHP User Group and the O’Reilly web site. It has been reproduced
A common question I see being asked on various lists is “How do I block an IP address from accessing
For those that don’t know, Movable Type is a blogging tool that you can use on your own server. It
A few people have requested this after a recent talk I presented on SEO for the Macromedia Users of Victoria.
This article describes how you go about setting up SSH access without the need of manually entering your password (thus
Add Live Bookmarks To Your Site! This article describes what you need to know if you’d like to enable Live
By default, many Linux distro’s have a nice BASH prompt. If you’ve just installed FreeBSD, you might be wondering how
OK, so you’re asked to support or manage an application that uses MSSQL Server. For example, many web hosting companies
This how-to will cover how to set up an SMS (Short Message Service) gateway using your own hardware and software.
If you run FreeBSD, have you ever noticed adjkerntz -a in your periodic list and wondered what the heck it
Notice this in your logs? named[18681]: starting BIND 9.3.0 -c /etc/namedb/named.conf named[18681]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953 named[18681]: command channel
Thanks to everyone that attended the 2005 AUUG Digital Pest Symposium, it was a great chance to network and exchange
Plone Content Management Essentials by Julie C. Meloni This is one of the shorter books on Plone, however it was
If you run anti virus systems – which hopefully you do, it is just as important to run regular tests
A favicon is the name given to the little icon that appears in the address bar of your web browser