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Google Voice A while back, I brought a Grand Stream 201. I set it up to work with Google Voice, according to the article at germinalcenter….. Now this was before Google Voice acquired Gizmo5. Then it...
View ArticleWhat statistics WordPress package ? The real answer!
There’s tons of blog entries talking about this. Yet few pointing out the underlying issues. Here’s what it boils down to. Either you put strain on your own MySQL database and server…or you allow...
View ArticleClub Fed? The Better Route? WordPress 3.0? Should I Install?
Club Fed Today I will share some dialogues on WordPress 3.0. But first, let me share some reflections I had this weekend. I have a friend I’ll call Mr. A. His brother worked several years for a bank....
View Article5 Reasons for using Piwik over Google Analytics
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I think ABC News mentioned that the system government health care website cost 400 million to implement. I heard other reports of three hundred and fifty million. If they used the open source LAMP...
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MySQL vs PostgreSQL for Health Care dot Gov LAMP Solution The Washington Post created a few good articles on what went wrong: What went wrong with HealthCare.gov Thirty-one things we learned in...
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English: WMF Tech Staff Group Photo – honoring Domas Mituzas, a volunteer database administrator. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Last week, I shared a story about stress. It’s called How to deal with IT and...
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The Piwik Team (Photo credit: Matthieu Aubry.) Suppose you set up a website. Let’s pretend it’s a self hosted WordPress site. This would allow you to use a content management system. Then you can...
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