How It Works : Half-Elf on Tech

Half-Elf on Tech

Half Elf, Full B.I.T.C.H.*

Don’t Use WWW

17 April, 2012 · by Ipstenu · in How It Works, Philosopy

Go www free. It’s the way to be. Or not, but I certainly never use it anymore.

Phishing Games

4 April, 2012 · by Ipstenu · in How It Works, Philosopy

The trick to not being Phished is to use your brain, pay attention, and when you get that hinky feeling, type in the URL manually.

Alfred.app

28 March, 2012 · by Ipstenu · in How It Works

Alfred is a really neat way to run apps on your mac, without having to remember where you installed things. But it doesn’t end there! You can do so much more!

Once GITten, Twice SVN

23 March, 2012 · by Ipstenu · in How It Works, Philosopy

Switching my MediaWiki install over to GIT was a complete failure.

mu-plugins: What is it good for?

5 March, 2012 · by Ipstenu · in How It Works

Not quite everything, but it’s better than functions.php!

How Likely Is It That My Upgrade Will Fail?

16 November, 2011 · by Ipstenu · in How It Works, Philosopy

This is a rough, proof of concept, idea of mine. Taking my father’s lessons to paper, I tried to come up with a fault tree and a decision tree about WordPress upgrades.

Community Driven Design

26 October, 2011 · by Ipstenu · in How It Works

While we all design open source, there’s a point at getting in on the changes and it’s not beta testing. Testing begins earlier, and your responsibility depends on who you support.

Smart Servers

24 October, 2011 · by Ipstenu · in How It Works

Smart Servers are the new buzzword. A server that is semi-cloud-like, but still it’s own master. What does it mean? Is this just another flash in the pan? I’ve decided to buy into it.