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One of the most frequent questions featured by the wordpress.org official support forum is about adding a slideshow-type image gallery to a WordPress-powered home page, possibly also localizing its contents for multiple languages. This …
Add a multi-language slideshow to your WordPress Home Page using Meta Slider plugin Read MoreWe already discussed in a previous post how easy it is to create, publish and mantain a repository hosted on github.com by only using Mercurial and TortoiseHG without additional software - including Git. Here we'll go a step …
Manage GitHub Project Pages with Mercurial and TortoiseHG Read More
Introduction I don't think there's a single developer who doesn't know GitHub, the popular source-control web hosting service for Git. If I'm wrong and you never head about it I strongly suggest you to fill …
Using GitHub with Mercurial and TortoiseHG Read More
The first 2015 italian Twitter Webinar hosted by #TwitterAcademy ended a couple hours ago: it was mostly focused on an extensive overview of the two monitoring/advertising platforms granted by Twitter to …
#TwitterAcademy Feb-10 Italian Webinar: TwitterAnalytics, TwitterAds, QuickPromote and more Read More
Starting from Visual Studio 2012 the good ol' Cassini Web Server has been replaced by IIS Express. While Microsoft spent quite an amount of words describing the benefits brought by this not-so-minor change, the …
IIS Express: allow external requests from remote clients & devices Read MoreIf you installed WinCache on your web server (hopefully thanks to our previously posted guide) and you would like to know more about what's happening behind the curtains, you can install this neat script to …
PHP & WinCache: a GUI to display statistics and usage info Read MoreThe most crippling bottleneck for many PHP-based software is almost always related to memory consumption. The PHP command interpreter does an excellent job for any low-traffic website, but when your …
PHP: How to install WinCache on IIS to improve performances Read More
Windows 8.1 users who installed VMware 10 (Player or Workstation) and periodically keeps their system up to date with the Windows Update feature will most likely ran into the following "Not …
VMware 10 and Windows Update KB2995388: Not enough physical memory available Read More
When you're developing an Android App you'll most likely want to give someone - the customers and/or beta-testers, colleagues, etc - an URL pointing to an .APK file not (yet) present …
Allow the download of APK files within IIS (avoiding 404 errors) Read More
The new features available in EF6 allow any developer to build a simple DB-powered website with very few lines of code. There are many tutorials explaining how to do that …
ASP.NET: Setup a MVC5 website with MySQL, Entity Framework 6 Code-First and VS2013 Read More