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Muy buen artículo de Sitepoint donde cuenta como configurar el espacio de trabajo.

Muchas de las recomendaciones quizá ustedes las hagan, como tener divido en cierta forma el espacio del trabajo del de donde un habita, por ejemplo aunque sea con un biombo o muebles colocados en forma estratégica.

This installment of our business startup series discusses the importance of your home workspace. One consideration when you decide to start a business is figuring out where you will do your work. On the surface, this may seem like a minor decision, but your workspace and surrounding environment can play a huge role in your productivity, efficiency and overall level of stress.

If you expect to work from home, you can expect to face some unique challenges. But armed with a well thought-out plan, you can create a home office that supports your working style, even if you don’t have a spacious dedicated space to call your own.

Identify Your Workspace

We’d all love to have an empty room to convert into a home office, but sometimes there just isn’t the space. Or if you’re like me, you may have a home office “home base,” but work best when you change up the scenery (I work all over my house with my laptop).

The most important step of creating a home workspace is picking a spot and identifying it as your “office.” Regardless of where it is, you should not only start to think of that space as a work-only space, but get the support of your family and other household members up front.

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Me entero mediante un artículo publicado en Sitepoint de la existencia de plugins para poder gestionar las revisiones o versiones que se generan de nuestros post.

Usualmente me conformaba con editar el archivo de configuraciónde WordPress y luego especificar cuántas deseaba guardar. Incluso muchas veces borré las revisiones viejas usando SQL como explica este artículo.

Sin embargo, mediante el uso de plugins esto deja de ser una tarea técnica para ser algo que se puede trasladar a un usuario final medio/avanzado.

¿Ustedes usan revisiones en WordPress? ¿Qué uso le dan?

WordPress automatically creates revisions of your content. Whenever you save a post or a page, the old version is retained so you can revert back at any time. Older revisions are never deleted so you always have a full history of all page changes.

However, sometimes it’s necessary to do a little housekeeping. Every revision requires a separate row in WordPress’s posts table and perhaps multiple entries in the postmeta and term_relationships tables. Removing older revisions will free up disk space and ease MySQL’s processing burden.

Removing old revisions

Eliminando las revisiones anteriores.

I’m going to say this only once: BACK UP YOUR DATABASE! We’re about to run SQL statements directly on your MySQL tables and one tiny slip could trash your WordPress installation.

First, you need to find your WordPress table prefix which is specified in the following line of wp-config.php:

$table_prefix  = 'wp_';

wp_ is the default but it can be changed to give your installation a little additional security. We’ll assume wp_ has been specified in the following code.

To delete all revisions for all pages and posts, start a MySQL administration tool such as phpMyAdmin and run the following SQL statement:

DELETE a,b,c
FROM wp_posts a
LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships b ON (a.ID = b.object_id)
LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta c ON (a.ID = c.post_id)
WHERE a.post_type = 'revision';

(Remember to change all table references from “wp_” to your table prefix if necessary.)

If that’s a little too severe, you could remove all revisions prior to a specific date, e.g. the following statement will remove all revisions except for those made after January 1, 2010:

DELETE a,b,c
FROM wp_posts a
LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships b ON (a.ID = b.object_id)
LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta c ON (a.ID = c.post_id)
WHERE a.post_type = 'revision'
AND a.post_date < '2010-01-01';

(Note that MySQL dates are specified using YYYY-MM-DD notation.)

Disabling or limiting revisions

Deshabilitar o limitar la cantidad de revisiones

Add the following statement to your WordPress wp-config.php file to permanently switch off post revisions:

define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', false);

The value can be set to ‘true’ to re-enable revisions.

Alternatively, you can use a positive integer to limit the number of permitted revisions, e.g.

define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', 5);

This will create a maximum of 5 revisions per post, plus one for auto-saving purposes. Older revisions will be automatically deleted.

WordPress plugins

Plugins de WordPress (para revisiones)

If this all sounds a little too scary, you’ll be pleased to know that there are a number of WordPress plugins offering revision control.

Do you have any further tips for controlling WordPress revisions?

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Via Kernel Source me entero de la existencia de este libro. La verdad lo bajé y es muy completo y sirve tanto como para un principiante como para personas con conocimientos más avanzados pero que necesiten un manual rápido.
Recomendable!

Linux 101 hacks es un buen libro donde aprender numerosos trucos relacionados con la personalización y administración de una máquina bajo GNU/Linux. Puede ser una magnífica opción para ampliar nuestros conocimientos relativos al manejo de comandos desde la terminal, pero también puede ser una referencia en cuanto a configuración de determinados servicios.

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Como siempre estos artículos de Sitepoint está muy bueno conservarlos a mano.

En este caso nos hablan de la importancia acerca de poder ver siempre “el gran cuadro”, o como decimos comunmente nosotros “la visión global” de la situación.
¿Dónde estamos parados? ¿Hacia donde queremos ir?

Nos da 12 puntos iniciales para poders encuadrar y ver la gran fotografía.

The everyday in-the-trenches part of working for yourself can not only be all-encompassing and constant, but it’s also necessary. After all, it’s these small incremental actions you take everyday that provide the value to your customers and essentially pay the bills.  Plus, many of us find that it’s difficult to set aside time for any activities that don’t directly result in income.

But despite the time challenge, there are several indirect business processes you should dedicate time to if you want to maximize your potential for growth. One is thinking about, analyzing and planning for the big picture.

Why Bother with the Big Picture

The big picture is simply the entirety of what you’re doing – your ultimate goal and how it relates to everything around it. I like to think of it as an aerial view of your business over a span of time, answering that age-old question: where do you see yourself in five years? 10 years? 20?

This certainly doesn’t diminish the importance of the details, but in order to get an accurate picture of where you are and where you’re going, you need to step back periodically and take a high-level look. This big-picture analysis can be helpful because it:

• Gives you a chance to check-in on your goals
• Assures you that what you’re investing in your business supports what you plan to accomplish
• Helps you justify the time and energy you spend on overcoming challenges
• Confirms that the in-the-trenches work is aligned with your business objectives

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