I was running into some issues with the wifi connection on a fresh install of Ubuntu 17.04. The network showed it was connected and everything looked ok but I still couldn’t visit any sites. Turns out that for whatever reason the DNS wasn’t working properly. I did the following steps to debug and fix the…
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5 Reasons You Should Love Your Competitors

There’s plenty of reasons to dislike your competitors (although jealousy seems to be the biggest factor) but with a bit of an attitude adjustment you’ll see why you should love them and what they can do for your business. 1. Outsourcing If your competitors are bigger than you then why not offer them your services? Why does it matter who sold the final product to the customer when surely the whole point of the game is to do a certain job for a certain amount of money. An example of this is when I sell my coding services to my… Read more »
The Need For Speed: 5 Reasons why you need to speed up your website

Recently I’ve been focusing on getting this site running at peak performance. People’s attention spans aren’t what they used to be and even managing to eek a tenth of a second of speed out of your site is a worthwhile investment. There are a few benefits to getting your site to load faster. Your bounce […]
How to install Google Analytics on MediaWiki Monobook

Mediawiki has a few extensions to install Google Analytics. The problem is that the analytics code is inserted into the content rather than just before the closing head tag like it should be. Here’s how I install the tracking code to the default skin MonoBook or my own skins based on MonoBook.