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Guv’s Book: ‘WordPress 3 Ultimate Security’ – Press Release

Some of you will remember or first found this 'lil site off the back of a pretty well-known WordPress security blog post here, Video How-to: 10 Tips To Make WordPress [...]

Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) .. The V-P-S Bible

Welcome to the_guv's 20 part VPS how-to bible, complete with video tutorials. If you are outgrowing your shared host, are paying big bucks for a managed VPS or want to [...]

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Alinghi, Way More Than Just a Boat

It's a dreary, rainy old day in Valencia today, and full of dusty heads. The weather echoes the sentiments of many here, who watched and hoped for a win by the Swiss boat, [...]

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Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) – Part 15: WordPress Setup & Updates from the Command Line

This how-to guide uses Subversion to download & install standalone WordPress blogs & their plugins, quickly and easily from your Linux command line interface, with [...]

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Guvnr Gets Steroids – Pursuing The Holy Grail of Less HTTP Requests

An often overlooked blog or web site improvement is reducing HTTP requests. Good for page load, improved usability, SEO and ultimately for traffic. Normally I wouldn't bother [...]

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