Tips to keep your PC cool
Check air flow The easiest thing you can do to help keep your PC cool is to give it a little breathing room by removing any obstacles to air flow. Make sure there’s nothing sitting right against any side of the computer, especially the back. Most…
Tips to prevent data loss
Take Backup If you have never backed up your data, stop everything and do it now! External hard disks and NAS drives are cheap and easy to use.Try to automate your backup process or make it as easy as possible. There are several free Windows applications…
Tips for IIS performance tuning
IIS performance tuning Custom Error Pages Although this is quite simple to do, few people seem to take advantage of error page customization. Just select the “Custom Errors” tab in MMC and map each error, such as 404, to the appropriate HTML…
Tips for performance tuning of databases
Database statistics The most important resource to any SQL optimizer is the statistics collected for different tables within the catalog. Statistics is the information about indexes and their distribution with respect to each other. Optimizer uses this…
Tips for How to write Better Code
Use a Coding Standard It’s easy to write a line of code, unorganized code, but it’s hard to maintain such code. Good code typically follows some standard for naming conventions, formatting, etc. Such standards are nice because they make things…
Tips to avoid JavaScript Mistakes
– You’re Using Global Variables If you’re just getting started with JavaScript, you probably think it’s a great thing that all variables are global. Actually, if you’re just getting started, you might not know what that means. Global variables are…
Tips to protect your site from hackers
Keep software up to date It may seem obvious, but ensuring you keep all software up to date is vital in keeping your site secure. This applies to both the server operating system and any software you may be running on your website such as a CMS or forum.…