Matthew Mombrea
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Buffalo, NY, United States
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Create intricate mobile prototypes with this free tool from Facebook
It seems like there is a big push to open source good design resources lately. The latest offering comes from the designers at Facebook. → Read More
A useful web development standard from an unlikely source
Ironic, I know. The same people that brought us the multi-million dollar cluster that was healthcare.gov is turning a new leaf. → Read More
A sea change in HTTPS web encryption is coming and it's free
Things are moving fast with HTTPS improvements lately. The goal of HTTPS everywhere is about to make a huge leap forward. → Read More
Why horizontal scalability shouldn't be a focus for software startups
A demand or consideration we often get from clients looking for a new web application is scalability, but it doesn't really make sense in the beginning. → Read More
Tips for scheduling tasks in Wordpress with WP-Cron
WP-Cron is great for scheduling tasks but here are some things to watch out for when using it. → Read More
How to detect a visitor's country of origin with Cloudflare
Knowing the source of a visitor is useful for a number of reasons, with Cloudflare it's easy to determine. → Read More
Why there is no longer a good reason to jailbreak your Apple TV
The Apple TV was once the lone good option for those looking to stream media to their TV on the cheap. That's no longer the case. → Read More
Your next PC should have a PCI Express SSD
Rather than your normal SATA III hard drive, your next PC should have a PCIe SSD, especially if you build it yourself. → Read More
How to sort, search, and paginate tables in ASP.NET MVC 5
Sorting, searching, and paging through table data is a common but laborious task. Here's an approach with some helpers to get you there quickly. → Read More
Strange Wordpress/WooCommerce bug affecting sites without SSL certificates
Beginning last Thursday we started seeing some of our Wordpress/WooCommerce sites behaving strangely for domains without SSL certificates. → Read More
The best features from the .NET 4.6 release
This week Microsoft released a giant set of updates to the development world. Here are my favorite new features and enhancements. → Read More
Internet capacity crunch staved off
Fiber optic transmission gains a 20x power boost thanks to some clever engineers → Read More
From Dev to Production
I've heard some conflicting views on this topic but in my opinion there is only one right way to launch a Wordpress site for a client. → Read More
Hyper-V tuning: Linux virtual machine over iSCSI follow up
The problem and the solution to the Linux virtual machine file system errors I've been experiencing → Read More
Hyper-V tuning: Linux virtual machines over iSCSI
My ongoing quest to find a stable configuration for hosting many virtual machines in a Windows Hyper-V cluster → Read More
How to transfer a GoDaddy SSL certificate to Windows IIS 8
Moving an SSL certificate to a new server isn't always straight forward. Moving one from Godaddy to a new Windows Server proved down right frustrating. → Read More
How to achieve HTTPS everywhere and improve Google rankings
In August 2014 Google announced that part of its security improvement initiative would include factoring in the use of HTTPS/SSL on a website in its search algorithms. → Read More
MSSQL Server 2016 coming with JSON support (not really)
Users have been clamoring for native JSON support in MSSQL server for years now. With the upcoming 2016 release, Microsoft attempts, and fails, to fulfill the request. → Read More
Infrastructure Monitoring with Zabbix, Nagios, or other?
What's happening with your infrastructure right now? Is the network healthy? Are all of your servers online and responding? Gaining insight into these things is an important part of a system administrator's life. → Read More
Website monitoring with a Raspberry Pi for nighttime alerts
Knowing that your servers are running and websites are working is always in the back of a system administrators mind. Here's a way to alert you when you're sleeping. → Read More