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Electric Vehicle Sales Are Up. Way up.

Gas prices are lower than they have been for well over a decade. The last time I saw sub-$2-per-gallon I could barely grow a beard. My how times change. Traditionally, when gas prices slump, hybrid and EV sales slump accordingly. This year gas prices are down around 15% compared to […]

Featured Games

EverQuest Next is Dead – Officially

It’s official: EverQuest Next is Dead Rumors of its demise were said to have been greatly exaggerated, but EverQuest Next is officially dead. When I proclaimed here a year ago that EverQuest Next was dead (at least as we knew it, if not in fact) it drew the ire of many. […]

Featured Technology

PHP 7 vs PHP5 Speed Showdown

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PHP 7 – Speed of lightning? WordPress is a beast. Most people who have gotten into the weeds of performance tuning WordPress will be all too familiar with this statement. PHP 5.6 helped, as did WordPress 4.4. There are numerous ways to speed up your WordPress site, to include caching […]

Cloud Featured Technology

Azure Performance Sucks

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Azure Performance Woes In recent weeks I’ve been experimenting with Microsoft Azure as a migration path for a workload that has been rapidly expanding. This particular workload is a .NET / MS SQL web application that has hefty back end SQL queries and some pretty advanced UI/UX coding. Optimization – […]

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