Programming is hard (but not in the way you think) Programming is hard, and a lot of people just don’t get it. The nature of our work is that we rarely do the same thing in the same way twice; the whole point is to automate a process so that other non-programmers can repeat it…

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A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a popular service used by websites to streamline and manage the speed and performance of its assets to visitors. Read on to learn more about the benefits of a CDN, disadvantages if any and to help determine whether your website need a CDN. The Dilemma As your web site…

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Webnames’ TBR page gets a refresh to be more user-friendly We’re happy to announce our new page for browsing TBR domains! But what are TBR domains? Read on for a little context. (If you’re already familiar with TBR, skip ahead to read about our improved UI.) The life of a domain We might think of…

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The rude awakening You’ve finally settled on the perfect domain name for your blog or small business. You’ve registered it with a trusted Canadian registrar like Webnames.ca. You’ve barely begun to setup email and web hosting, yet the very next day, you wake up to an inbox full of spam – emails hawking web design,…

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The title of this blog references a common pattern in learning, from a programming perspective. For example, when you learned basic geometry, you were probably taught some variation of this statement: Every square is a rectangle, but not every rectangle is a square. At first it might seem to be a deliberate brain teaser, the…

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