Tales of my (mis)Adventures in IT

  • 4 cosas que NO me gustan de WordPress

    4 cosas que NO me gustan de WordPress

    WordPress esta en 1 de cada 4 sitios web en internet. Es el CMS más usado del mundo, tiene miles de integraciones y un sin numero de diferentes temas y plugins, pero, a como todo en esta vida, no es perfecto. Mi experiencia en Sucuri y compartiendo comentarios con amigos de SiteGround, he creado esta breve…

  • ¿Cómo escoger un hosting para WordPress? Parte 1

    ¿Cómo escoger un hosting para WordPress? Parte 1

    Siempre en los grupos de usuarios de WordPress no falta alguien que siempre pregunte: ¿Que hosting me recomiendan para mi sitio WordPress? Luego siempre saltan los fanboys a recomendar el hosting que ellos usan sin antes tener datos que te permitan responder responsablemente la pregunta. Y muchas veces genera frustración en los usuarios cuando contratan…

  • Clearing CloudProxy cache via PHP

    Clearing CloudProxy cache via PHP

    For those who are not familiar let me explain what CloudProxy is. CloudProxy is the Web Application Firewall & Caching service from my employer, Sucuri.net. This service is setup at the DNS level and helps filtering all the HTTP requests that get to your website and speeding the performance a the same time. Below is…

  • #BlogsNI – Festival de Blogs de Nicaragua

    #BlogsNI – Festival de Blogs de Nicaragua

    What is #BlogsNI? Next week, I set sail to the #BlogsNI, which is Nicaragua’s Blogs Festival. An event oriented to talk about the local nicaraguan blogosphere, a review of the past, present and future. The event will hold different local experts from Social Communication, Marketing and Technology, What I would be doing on #BlogsNI? I…

  • WP Nicaragua: walking towards a WordCamp in Nicaragua on 2017

    WP Nicaragua: walking towards a WordCamp in Nicaragua on 2017

    First I must admit that I love that as part of my job in Sucuri I get to  assist to WordPress events like WordCamps. I had the opportunity to assist the first WP Campus in Sarasota, Florida. This event was for all the Universities and other Higher Education entities that use WordPress on their campus for…

  • WordCamp San José in November 2016

    Finally, we have the official dates for #WordCamp San José in Costa Rica. The event will be held on November 5th and 6th. The event will be divided in tracks, that will help you focus on the talks/workshops that you might be interested. What are the tracks? There will be three: Developer Track Design: UX…

  • What I’ve learned about people from providing support to WordPress Users

    WARNING: This is a rant. Read at your own discretion! For the past 5 years my work has been focusing on WordPress, started a web development agency, then worked for mexican integrator, then moved to the web hosting world and now, at I work at a website security company called Sucuri.net. It’s been a great…

  • From Managua to Miami, Orlando & Tampa

    Every once in a while you need some vacations right? Well this is the story of how I kept my cost low using internet deals and other websites. Plane tickets To buy a cheap plane ticket you have 2 options, you buy it online either on Kayak or CheapoAir (expedia.com is another good option)or you use…

  • How websites get hacked? And WordPress meetup Managua

    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…

  • My Credomatic credit card was cloned

    My Credomatic credit card was cloned

    Yes, I went to California back in May for work, and a couple of days after I came back to Nicaragua, I received a call from BAC Credomatic, the guy who called me identified himself as part of their Security group. It was odd why was my credit card issuer’s security department calling me ?…

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