Tales of my (mis)Adventures in IT

  • Alternative to PayPal in Nicaragua: Costa Rica

    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…

  • 2 Alternatives to Paypal in Nicaragua

    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…

  • Tapping on all WordPress users, what is your focus ?

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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…

  • Top 5 WordPress Tools for any WordPress Developer

    As a professional working on WordPress sites, I wanted to share what are the tools that I use on my day to day WordPress Development and Management tasks, I hope these tools will make your life easier, as they did to me, so without further comments, let’s begin: Chrome Developer Tools It’s incredible that many…

  • 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…

  • WordPress Security: your responsibility as a website owner

    WordPress Security: your responsibility as a website owner

    As part of my job, I help customers on a daily basis to overcome hacks, defacement and malware infections on their WordPress. Most of them are just business owners or WordPress developers who don’t mind much about security. A website is like a car, if you don’t do regular maintenance then you can’t expect it…

  • 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…

  • Upgrading to Debian Jessie 8.3

    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…

  • Happy 2016 & update WordPress!

    Happy 2016 & update WordPress!

    It’s January, it’s 2016. If your site survived the holidays without going down or getting hacked, Congratulations! If you are not aware WordPress recently released an update, which honestly is just a maintenance and security update to fix 52 bugs from WordPress 4.4 aka Clifford which was released on December 2015. So if you want to…

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