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book reviews Startup books

Rework book summary and highlights

Rework book summary introduction I recently finished a good, short and simple book called Rework, by DHH and some other guy at 37 Signals.  They are the guys that created Ruby on rails and the basecamp agile collaboration tools. The book is about the things they have learnt over the years in their pragmatic creation of basecamp. They share […]

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Protecting your wordpress from multiple posts on wp-login.php and XMLRPC Bruteforce

I recently added New Relic server monitoring APM to my server and I noticed something interesting. Look at the screenshot below all the purple in the graph just shows that someone is brute-forcing my login. It is burning my much needed resources for other apps on the box with multiple posts on wp-login.php I needed […]

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Finance movie reviews

Great Financial Movies, Documentaries and Series Reviewed

Spolier Alert: Mild spoilers ahead Leading up to the release of the Big Short, a movie based on the book. Many of these movies are based on books in fact and Hollywood has a fascination with these sorts of Movies. It is a sad reality that in the world of exchange rates massive leverage and […]

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Good Lean Startup Quotes

Dominate a small yet extensible market first: Facebook – Harvard Amazon – books Netflix – DVD mailers Uber – town cars in SF

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Development Career

Ultimate Developer CV: Creating your Modern Resume

Creating the Ultimate Developer CV Creating and Maintaining a CV (Curriculum Vitae) or Resume is one of the crappy things about being a developer. Unless you are a lifer (stay at a single company for life) you will have the arduous task of writing and maintaining one. Time to create the Ultimate Developer CV. One of […]