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Verizon Alternatives – My First Dip In The MVNO Pool

June 23, 2018Lance Cleveland

After a decade of being a Verizon customer I have grown to dislike them. Their coverage is the best of all 4 carriers in America. It is the ONLY provider…Continue readingVerizon Alternatives – My First Dip In The MVNO Pool

Security Technology

Some Linux User and SSH Tips and Tricks

June 22, 2018Lance Cleveland

User Management SSH Login With Keys From Your Computer Make sure you have created a private/public key pair. There are tons of articles online about how to use openSSH (for…Continue readingSome Linux User and SSH Tips and Tricks

Development JavaScript Technology

Vue Datatable Example

June 8, 2018Lance Cleveland

An article about building a JavaScript JSON server and front-end Vue interface to display it. A great simple example for those interested in building pure JS web services. appdividend.com/2018/06/07/vue-datatable-component-example/

Technology Web App Testing

Cypress.IO WordPress Login Management

May 26, 2018Lance Cleveland

Keeping the WordPress login intact between Cypress.IO tests was a challenge. There are plenty of Cypress.IO articles about login management and just as many about “anti-pattern” which lean toward the…Continue readingCypress.IO WordPress Login Management

Technology WordPress

Best WordPress Hosting Companies, Honestly

May 25, 2018Lance Cleveland

Far too often people do NOT ask me, or my colleagues in the industry, whom they should use as a web hosting company. Most business owners figure they are smart…Continue readingBest WordPress Hosting Companies, Honestly

Maps Technology

Geocoding With US Census Bureau

May 11, 2018Lance Cleveland

Google dropped a bombshell on most maps users, including many of the people using the Store Locator Plus WordPress plugin — they now require ALL SITES to register for an…Continue readingGeocoding With US Census Bureau

Programming Technology

How To Hire A Programmer

May 8, 2018Lance Cleveland

Businesses have been hiring programmers for decades now. Back in the 70s it was something only Fortune 100 companies did. Today everyone from your local cafe to full-fledged software…Continue readingHow To Hire A Programmer

CSS Graphic Design Technology

Vuetify 12-Point Grid Layouts

April 10, 2018Lance Cleveland

While updating an inherited web project, I’ve been slowly introducing some well-defined libraries to the mix. My current favorite being Vuetify — designed to add some decent style standards to…Continue readingVuetify 12-Point Grid Layouts

Quality Assurance Technology

Cypress.IO Shortcomings — Pattern or Die

April 9, 2018Lance Cleveland

Digging into Cypress.IO in a sprint to replace my almost-completely-useless stack of Selenium IDE tests for Store Locator Plus, I’ve run into some issues that seem to go beyond my lack…Continue readingCypress.IO Shortcomings — Pattern or Die

Security Technology

Running A Linux Server? Check etcd

March 22, 2018Lance Cleveland

If you are running your own Linux server — an AWS EC2 instance, perhaps, you may want to check that your etc daemon I’d not accessible. Read this ARS Technica…Continue readingRunning A Linux Server? Check etcd

JavaScript Quality Assurance Technology

WebdriverIO and Mocha For Better Test Reports

February 14, 2018Lance Cleveland

In a continuing series on using WebdriverIO with Selenium we are going to focus on getting better reporting output now that our environment is setup. The previous article on setting…Continue readingWebdriverIO and Mocha For Better Test Reports

JavaScript Programming Languages Technology

Optimizing JavaScript for Chrome

February 7, 2018Lance Cleveland

A recent discussion with a tech guru at Automattic posed a great question — how does JavaScript asynchronous processing work on a single-threaded app? Great question, but before I found…Continue readingOptimizing JavaScript for Chrome