Category: Tutorials
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How websites get hacked? And WordPress meetup Managua
On May, I had the opportunity to participate on Desarrolladores WordPress Nicaragua (You can find them facebook & meetup ) monthly meetup. Both my business partner and co-founder of SenorCoders.com and myself gave talks. While I talked about How Websites get Hacked, Kharron talked about Developing a Mobile App using WordPress as the backend. My presentation…
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Alternative to PayPal in Nicaragua: Costa Rica
After an overwhelming traffic to my previous post 2 Alternatives to Paypal in Nicaragua, I was asked to expand my comments on each case, so today I am bringing you more information about using Paypal in Nicaragua, and yes its thru our southern neighbor country, Costa Rica. As many of you already know, we can receive…
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2 Alternatives to Paypal in Nicaragua
Last year I wrote an article about how Paypal is working on Nicaragua, and its 2016 and we are still on the same place: we can get money in, but we can’t cash it out locally 🙁 , we need to spend it again via Paypal, which on my particular case has come in handy…
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DLNA on Mac: The Ultimate Guide
Well folks, many of you have read my article from Streaming from Mac OS X to a Roku Streaming Device and Stream Media from Debian to XBOX One, now it comes this guide, which is basically a different way of using DLNA on your Mac OS X (El Capitan). Requirements Mac OS X El Capitan Internet access…
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Avoid SSH Timeouts on the Mac Terminal
I admit it, I’m always with a lot of applications opened, Chrome with at least 6 tabs, Skype, Slack, PHPStorm or SublimeText, Airmail or Outlook for Mac, Photoshop and terminal. I regularly login via SSH to VPS in Digital Ocean and AWS EC2 and then run some commands like: wp plugin install wordfence Then I…
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WordPress.org vs WordPress.com – An Idiot’s Guide
For you that are starting with WordPress and you are trying this on your own, let me help you on clarifying this: WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS) that is built on PHP (one of the most popular programming languages, see php.net for more info) and using MySQL as the database to store your…
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Upgrading to Debian Jessie 8.3
Recently I became aware that there was an update to my favorite Linux, Debian. I have been using Debian Jessie 8.2 on my laptop (Dell XPS 14) since it came out and honestly I did not have any problems at all. But recently I was requested to install a Linux server for a small app…
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Overcoming the WordPress’ white screen of death
Yesterday’s incident with La Prensa Nicaragua reminded me that I wanted to write about this 6 months ago. So I took some time and wrote this up. I really hope this helps someone. If you have ever played with WordPress, plugins and themes a bit, it is very likely that you have faced the dreadful…
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Stream Media from Debian to Xbox One
Hi there, if you have been reading my blog, you probably read my article about Streaming from Mac OS X to a Roku Streaming Device. Well now I am back for another one, but this time is from my Debian 8.2 (Jessie) to my XBOX One. Requirements before we start The setup is pretty simple, but…
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WordPress and admin-ajax.php
In past articles I have shared with you what I consider the Top 5 WordPress Plugins for Shared Hosting but I must admit that I forgot about this one. It was only after assisting customers from Site5 that I remembered that I had forgotten to add this important plugin as it causes severe damage sometimes. What is the…
