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Current State Of AI As A Junior Programmer

January 25, 2026January 25, 2026Lance Cleveland

I’ve been playing with artificial intelligence as a coding assistant for the past 30 months. The first attempts to employ AI to speed up code maintenance and development was a…Continue readingCurrent State Of AI As A Junior Programmer

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PHP Session Management On Container Clusters

February 8, 2025February 13, 2025Lance Cleveland

The new Store Locator Plus® SaaS platform that is launching later this month has been built from the ground-up on a modern cloud infrastructure. The new application leverages AWS Elastic…Continue readingPHP Session Management On Container Clusters

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Troubleshooting Unresponsive WordPress Sites On Lightsail

May 16, 2024May 16, 2024Lance Cleveland

It has been a while since I’ve written a technical post here. A new startup venture, Rally Creek USA – an off grid and tiny home endeavor, has been taking…Continue readingTroubleshooting Unresponsive WordPress Sites On Lightsail

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Using ChatGPT To Write WordPress Plugins

February 7, 2024February 7, 2024Lance Cleveland

As a follow on to the ChatGPT As A Coding Assistant article, this article delves into a specific type of coding – using ChatGPT to write WordPress plugins. Here I…Continue readingUsing ChatGPT To Write WordPress Plugins

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Jetpack Backup/Restore Connection Failing On Lightsail

February 15, 2023Lance Cleveland

AWS Lightsail provides a quick and easy way to stand up WordPress instances with minimal effort for people with a moderate amount of tech skills. It does come with some…Continue readingJetpack Backup/Restore Connection Failing On Lightsail

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WordPress Registration Captcha

February 8, 2023Lance Cleveland

I recently reworked my LanceCleveland.com site, merging the previous Lance.Bio blog site with my CTO.LanceCleveland.com site. As soon as the new site went online and allowed for users to register…Continue readingWordPress Registration Captcha

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WordPress On AWS Lightsail

December 7, 2022February 6, 2023Lance Cleveland

I came across AWS Lightsail while writing a prior article about WordPress hosting and decided to see if Amazon offered anything new in the space. Sure enough, they did. The…Continue readingWordPress On AWS Lightsail

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Using IPv6 To Access Lightsail WordPress Instances

August 19, 2022February 13, 2024Lance Cleveland

AWS Lightsail makes it easy to spin up new WordPress instances and get a completely custom site online in minutes. However the default configuration can lead to dynamic IP addresses…Continue readingUsing IPv6 To Access Lightsail WordPress Instances

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Testing MySQL Connectivity From WordPress Docker Containers

August 3, 2022Lance Cleveland

Moving forward with feature development for the Store Locator Plus® SaaS service includes moving forward with our tool kits and environments. Docker containers have become a bigger part of our…Continue readingTesting MySQL Connectivity From WordPress Docker Containers

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Hosting WordPress On AWS

July 28, 2022Lance Cleveland

As fate would have it, Summer 2022 has come with some life changes that include a renewed focus on the long-established business at Charleston Software Associates (CSA). In the decade-plus…Continue readingHosting WordPress On AWS

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Cleaning Up WordPress – Large wp_options.idb

July 8, 2020Lance Cleveland

Did your tiny AWS Bitnami WordPress server run out of disk space? The culprit may be unoptimized data tables in MySQL. Finding a 4.9GB wp_options.idb file on your server is…Continue readingCleaning Up WordPress – Large wp_options.idb

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Hate Spam? Turn Off Jetpack Email Sharing

March 30, 2020February 6, 2023Lance Cleveland

The past few days have been spent diagnosing various email delivery issues from the AWS web cluster that is running our WordPress plugin store as well as our SaaS locator…Continue readingHate Spam? Turn Off Jetpack Email Sharing