Easy Index

While experimenting with YOP Poll, I came across Easy Index, which looked rather pretty, although it depends on on the featured images chosen. I made a category index to see how it looked. This might be better if one of the first plugins chosen as it would allow you to chose the featured images more…

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Flickr Slide Shows

This page documents my use of widgets, HTML and plugins to display flickr slide shows on my blogs. As at August 2021, I am using wordpress plugins see below/overleaf or on the blog wordpress now support flickr URLs with a native embed.  I just have to paste the URL. Here are my notes, developed over…

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CISSP 8 Domains

The (ISC)2 amended the domains within the CISSP in 2015. This document, the  CISSP 8 Domain Refresh Summary Guide 15042015 summarises the changes.

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Flash

It won’t go away! How to display an alternate image for one’s flash object. Actually I gave up, I decided that the browser default was more informative but here’s my notes.

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Redshift

Sun CTO Greg Papadoupolos, in the late noughties posited that the growth in IT spend was going to come from those applications  (or installations) that would grow faster than Moore’s Law and that this growth had significant implications for systems designers. 

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WordPress in the Cloud

WordPress is famously available at wordpress.com as Software-as-a-Service. What should one do if one comes to the conclusion that this isn’t what you need? The two obvious solutions are one of the cloud providers and I should say I personally use one&one for various reasons.

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DaaS

I was thinking about DaaS and how to use RDP to access a modern desktop from my Tablet and my thoughts moved to Azure although I have not given up on AWS. In fact, I will be faster with AWS and actually have an account. Here’s the links and reading …

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YANF web calendar

I came across https://tockify.com, it seems to be a calendar implemented as Software-as-service and access via http. It could be useful for wordpress (or other CMS) sites where plugins are unavailable but html is.

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WordPress 301 Redirects

I am looking to 301 my old blog.davelevy.info site. This would seem to be complicated by the need to transform the permalinks from ./YYYY/MM/DD/slug into ./slug. Here are my notes, …

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