Smart Website Development
Hi and welcome to CuplaWeb.
This is the work website of Ronan Quirke, an Internet professional with extensive experience in web development and Internet technologies in general.
I have just recently added my portfolio of previous work.
If you have a question or query, please email talk@cuplaweb.com and we will be happy to help.
Services include:
- Website Development
- Web Application Development
- Wordpress blogging software development/management
- e-Commerce
- MySQL Consulting
Recent blog entries:
Handy Linux Commands
Some handy linux commands I use from time to time.
I’m posting this mostly for my own reference, but they might be of use to others.
Clearing a file
A quick and easy way to empty a large file, such as say, a log file, is the following:
cat > filename
-> then hit ctrl + d
Finding a recently [...] Full article
Why Captcha is bad
People seem obsessed with captcha these days.
Small web sites that I know couldn’t possibly get more than a few enquiry form submissions a week come looking for it.
I, with 13 years experience of the Internet and decent eyesight have to repeatedly re-attempt registration on websites where I want to do scary things like buy products.
Try signing up [...] Full article
Why I don’t use Media Temple anymore
Over the past year my impression of Media Temple has gone from a pedastal atop other hosting companies to a half-reliable also-ran whose tech support I dread to contact because I know if my question is in any way complex, and mine invariably are, I just get copy and paste answers asking for more info. [...] Full article