When you setup an Azure Database for MySQL server, it automatically handles backing itself up based on your specified Backup Retention Period in the Pricing Tier. You can even rest...
There's actually a lot more to securing a website than just slapping on an SSL cert and delivering it over HTTPS. While that's a great first step, with the use of certain meta tags...
Optimizely (formerly Episerver) has a fairly complex database structure. Here are some queries that I use often. These are taken from Optimizely CMS 11 but should work in other ver...
Common Table Expressions (CTEs) in T-SQL are super powerful. They came out originally in SQL Server 2005 and are essentially a temporary query result that you can further apply que...
While working with WordPress, I often find that people want you to use WordPress and php to add or update data. It makes sense, use the API so that you don't mess anything up, but...
If you build websites or are a blogger, you know that finding images and other resources for your site can be expensive if you use one of the stock photography sites such as istock...
jQuery is one of the more popular JavaScript utilities, mostly because of how useful it can be. It's cross-browser so you don't have to worry about annoying browser differences in...
Working with various CMS systems, making sure you optimize images for speedy delivery is a must. Some systems like WordPress have plugins that offer a service that will optimize an...
GitHub has become a very powerful code repository and one aspect that makes it so powerful are it's CI/CD capabilities. Let's say you have a great little Gatsby site and want to ho...
I always told myself that I would never be a blogger. So why am I doing this? I have tons of notes on various platforms, languages and systems that span over 2 decades. Those notes...
