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Our WordPress website keeps getting hacked

We are running several websites with WordPress in different categories – everything from blogs to online shops. WordPress is great. It is easy and powerful at the same time. Although there is one thing that gives us a doubt of the platform – our WordPress websites get hacked. Especially more popular ones.

How to show folder size in Windows

You are wondering why is it easy to see a file size in Windows explorer, but not the folder size? The short answer is – resources. In order for the explorer to show a directory size it needs to process all files in all sub folders and calculate the space that all the files take in a directory. The calculation is resource draining and time consuming. The feature was available in Windows before XP, but was then removed as it made explorer slow to work with.

How to program backup software

In this article I will show you how to make your own backup software without downloading any tools. There is a lot of free and paid software for backup that you can use. One of them is Immortal files for both Windows and Mac.

Building Boost 1.58 with Visual Studio 2015

If you try to build Boost 1.58 with Visual Studio 2015, you’ll get this error “Unknown compiler version - please run the configure tests and report the results” when building, do this.

Read and write to file in C++

Many C++ developers find themselves in a place where they need to store information in an external file, which they can retrieve later to perform the operation based on the values. For instance, they have created a video game which has a high score system, wherein top 5 highest scores need to be saved in a file, as information saved in memory in real-time gets deleted once the program is turned off, so they would pursue a fast way to store their values in the external source.