Working at Acquia!
After working at Nascom for a very brief time, I will soon start working at Acquia!
Easy Drupal CDN integration for fun and profit
Speed up your Drupal site with a CDN in a few minutes.
Working at Nascom!
On January 2, I announced that I was looking for a job. Since that announcement, I’ve talked with >65 companies.
Looking for a job
The time has finally come. I’m looking for a job!
My (deprecated) answer to the Drupal Deployment question
Jacob Singh did a presentation at DrupalCon London about
Internship with the Site Speed team at Facebook!
I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining Facebook’s Site Speed team in Palo Alto, California on September 26, 2011 for a 12-week&n
Performance Calendar 2010: “WPO Analytics”
This year, Performance Planet did an advent calendar again, just like last year.
Master thesis literature study successfully completed!
After almost a year since the last master thesis blog post, it’s about time to finally bre
Drupal 6 CDN integration: a test case
In this final article in my bachelor thesis series, I explain how I proved that the work I had done for my bachelor thesis (which includes the Episo
CDN integration module 6.x-1.x
In this article, I explain the rationale behind the CDN integration module for Drupal 6, which was written as part of my bachelor thesis.
CDN integration module 5.x-1.x
In this article, which was in fact written in January—February 2008 (well over two years ago), I explain what the benefit is of using a CDN and how the then-new
File Conveyor: design
In this extensive article, I explain the architecture of the “File Conveyor” daemon that I wrote to detect files immediately (through the file
FOSDEM 2010
This weekend on Sunday, February 7, we’ll have a full day of Drupal talks at the 10th edition of FOSDEM, Europe’s biggest, free
Master thesis proposal: "Web Performance Optimization: Analytics"
This is the brief version of my actual master thesis proposal, which is attached in PDF format.
DrupalCon Paris
I will be presenting together with Konstantin Käfer on Front End
Key Properties of a CDN
In this very brief article, I highlight the key properties of CDNs: what differentiates them and which technical implications you should keep in mind.
Improving Drupal: Episodes integration
In this article, I explain what was required to integrate the Episodes page loading performance monitoring system
Page loading profiling tools
In this article, seven distinctly different page loading profiling tools are compared: UA Profiler, Cuzillion,
Bachelor thesis finished!
Finally, my bachelor thesis has come to an end!
Episodes Server: charting in Drupal
For my Episodes module to become useful, you also need to be able to easily analyze the collected data, to make sense of it all.
Article translated into Russian and selected by Drupal Fire
My article “Improving Drupal’s page loading performance” — definitely my most popular writing
Run your own SVN server with WebSVN access and Drupal syntax highlighting
This is a very short tutorial — it should take you about 15 minutes from start to end — that explains how to run your own SVN server, install
Episodes: Drupal integration & ingestor
In my session at DrupalCon DC, I promised an initial version of the E
DrupalCon DC
After 15.5 hours of travelling (1.5 hours on the train, 8.5 hours of flying, 20 minutes of bus, 30 minutes in the metro and the rest spent waiting or walking), I arrived at the Harrington Hotel in
FOSDEM 2009
I went to FOSDEM on Sunday.