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Tables can be boring, but if…

David Bisset

August 10, 2016

Tables can be boring, but if they aren't designed well they are painful to look at even on the best websites. Matthew Ström has some great tips on font, layout, and other aspects of table design to make tables easier…

Private equity is getting closer to the hosting business

Brian Krogsgard

August 10, 2016

Hosting

Last year, private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners bought Liquid Web. This week, it was announced that Rackspace -- rumored to also be on the verge of full-out purchase by private equity -- sold their "cloud" division to Liquid Web.…

I thought Jeremy Thomas guide to web…

Brian Krogsgard

August 3, 2016

Design

I thought Jeremy Thomas guide to web design in four minutes was clever, not because of the content, but how it's presented. I won't spoil it, so check it out for yourself.

The Prototype Fund is a project…

Brian Krogsgard

August 3, 2016

Security

The Prototype Fund is a project of the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Individuals and small teams can apply for funding for projects related to open source tools and applications in…

Pantheon has raised $29 million to…

Brian Krogsgard

July 25, 2016

Hosting

Pantheon has raised $29 million to invest more into their WordPress and Drupal hosting platform, with a Series C round, totaling $57 million to date. As is noted in the article, and said to me by a Pantheon employee, they…

StackPath has acquired MaxCDN. If you use…

Brian Krogsgard

July 25, 2016

Security

StackPath has acquired MaxCDN. If you use MaxCDN, it doesn't seem you will be effected in the short term, though based on what I'm reading today, a move upmarket might be in the works down the road. StackPath was started by…

ManageWP’s new platform, “Orion”, is now live, includes new pricing

Brian Krogsgard

July 18, 2016

Hosting

ManageWP has long been a leader in the small group of businesses that want to help you manage your WordPress installs from one place. The six year old service has gone through a long development phase, where they rebuilt everything…

Some developers will appreciate Josh Pollock’s…

Brian Krogsgard

July 8, 2016

Design

Some developers will appreciate Josh Pollock's article covering PHP design patterns and architectures. He also covers common patterns employed in WordPress.

WordCamp Europe takeaways

Brian Krogsgard

July 8, 2016

BusinessDesign

After a whirlwind WordCamp Europe, I've had some time to sit back and consider some of the common conversational threads. When a big group of people gets together in the WordPress space, you can start to identify what folks are…

Setting a web performance budget helps…

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2016

Design

Setting a web performance budget helps affect site performance; they are values you set that should not be exceeded in the design and development of a site. Brian Jackson shows what's involved in putting one together.

A new major version of Gravity Forms…

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2016

Security

A new major version of Gravity Forms (2.0) was recently released. It's a substantial milestone with focuses on new features and enhancements, under the hood improvements, the API, their add-on framework, and enhanced security hardening.

Four questions with Andy Wilkerson, on his UpThemes purchase

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2016

BusinessDesign

I did an email based interview with Andy Wilkerson -- owner of Parallelus and acquirer of UpThemes -- to learn more about the decision to purchase the small theme shop. Here it is (I added links where it helps): Why…

Hostadvice, a blog focused on the…

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2016

Hosting

Hostadvice, a blog focused on the hosting industry, has an interview with Tenko Nikolov - CEO of SiteGround. It's nice insight to the leader of one of the more popular hosting companies that caters to WordPress. SiteGround is 12 years old, which may…

Most WordPress websites probably use phpMyAdmin (via hosting…

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2016

HostingSecurity

Most WordPress websites probably use phpMyAdmin (via hosting providers), so it's nice to see that they successfully completed a security audit as part of Mozilla's Secure Open Source Fund. This fund is new to me, and looks like a great initiative.

Timely’s All-In-One Event Calendar had multiple security issues that caused it to be temporarily removed from the repo

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2016

Security

Timely's All-In-One Event Calendar -- which boasts 100,000 active installs -- had multiple security issues that caused it to be temporarily removed from the repo by the plugin security team. There were at least four disclosed issues, some of which…

How Hari Ravichandran built Endurance, the company behind Bluehost, HostGator, and dozens more

Brian Krogsgard

June 13, 2016

BusinessHosting

For all the things I've read about EIG and the portfolio of companies they control, I never knew the backstory. In this Forbes India interview, I learned how Hari Ravichandran spent most of his $8,000 of savings during the .com…

Tables can be boring, but if…

Private equity is getting closer to the hosting business

I thought Jeremy Thomas guide to web…

The Prototype Fund is a project…

Pantheon has raised $29 million to…

StackPath has acquired MaxCDN. If you use…

ManageWP’s new platform, “Orion”, is now live, includes new pricing

Some developers will appreciate Josh Pollock’s…

WordCamp Europe takeaways

Setting a web performance budget helps…

A new major version of Gravity Forms…

Four questions with Andy Wilkerson, on his UpThemes purchase

Hostadvice, a blog focused on the…

Most WordPress websites probably use phpMyAdmin (via hosting…

Timely’s All-In-One Event Calendar had multiple security issues that caused it to be temporarily removed from the repo

How Hari Ravichandran built Endurance, the company behind Bluehost, HostGator, and dozens more

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