I’ve been told that a software business is 1/4 programming and 3/4 marketing. It takes more than being a good software developer to build a successful business. You need a good web site to promote and support your products. You need to understand marketing, basic bookkeeping, and many other business skills.
I remember reading about a [...]

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The “YOUR LIFE AMBITION - What Happened??” comic is amazingly accurate with how people’s dreams and ambitions fade over time. We all start out with plans to take on the world, but our doubts and fears cloud our vision and we end up focused on paying bills and maintaining our standard of living.

To stay focused [...]

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In today’s world, attacks on web sites by hackers are common. We need to take precautions to prevent the security in our web sites from being compromised. There isn’t any built-in utility for WordPress to test security, but there is a plugin by Michael Torbert that can be installed for this purpose.

WP Security Scan examines [...]

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The following are some inspirational quotes that I’ve recently come across.
Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.
Nido Qubein
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
Anatole France
We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by [...]

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Version 2.5.1 of WordPress was recently released. This update includes 70+ bug fixes, improvements in performance, and a critical security fix. Its worth upgrading just to repair the security issues of the previous version.

The major enhancements in this version are:

Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.
Better performance for those who have [...]

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