Andy Vaughn

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Amazon Glacier

I just came across this resource, but late this summer, Amazon AWS released their new product: Glacier, which is a cloud storage service for backing up heavy data. With costs as low as $.01/month for 1GB storage, it scales inexpensively for large sites. Lately, I’ve been working on sites with larger data and backup requirements. […]

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Twenty Twelve Theme

The new WordPress Twenty Twelve theme was released last week. For those of you with custom designs, this doesn’t pertain. But, if you’re testing a personal site or blog, check it out. Responsive design, new post-formats, etc.

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WordPress and jQuery

WordPress natively uses jQuery. It is part of the WordPress core files, but the source can be overridden to reduce server load on your website by offloading the script source to Google’s Hosted Libraries. Here’s how to use Google as a CDN for WordPress and jQuery: In your theme’s functions.php file, add the following code: […]

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