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It seems blogging is not something I’m that comfortable with. Weeks go by without anything being posted. Not that this is a problem, as I’m not of the opinion that people are that interested in the minutia of my life.

From today I will try something new to keep this thing ticking over. I will post a link to something that I find interesting or of value in the hope that it will benefit somebody else.

The link for today is HowtoForge. It’s a tutorial site with a vibrant forum for all things Linux. I have used a number of their tutorials over the last few years and have always received amazing community support on the forums. My private hosting server at Hetzner is based on a tutorial supplied by HowtoForge.

As this is the first post in this new initiative I’ll include a bonus. WordCamp South Africa is on this weekend and I have just registered. I hope to make some contacts and just bump into some old friends and past colleagues who are still active in the local online business.

WordCamp is a conference type of event that focuses squarely on everything WordPress. Everyone from casual end users all the way up to core developers show up to these events. These events are usually highlighted by speeches or keynotes by various people.

There is a Flickr group featuring photos from other WordCamp events from around the world.

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August 21st, 2008 at 12:26 pm

Google Analytics motivated post

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I saw that there has been a bit of a spike in traffic from Google the last few days. The search terms that resulted in this spike are:

setting up ubuntu 8.04 web server 10.87%
ubuntu 8.04 desktop lamp 4.35%
setting up lamp on ubuntu 8.04 2.17%

If this post is ever found by anybody, then I can recommend the HowToForge site as a source of some of the best instructions, guides and forums out there when it comes to all things LAMP.

I have learnt more from that site than from any other site or book.

Written by BF

May 15th, 2008 at 8:08 pm