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!
First week at Facebook
While I obviously can’t publish the details here, the orientation was very cool.
Facebook internship: getting there
I didn’t expect the goodbye to be easy, but I never expected it to be so hard, either. I think it was one of the hardest things I ever did, on that 23rd of September, 2011.
Master thesis successfully defended!
On July 1, 2011, I successfully defended my master thesis at Hasselt University’s Expertise Centre for Digital Media.
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
QBrowsCap & QGeoIP: detecting browsers and locations
In December and January, I’ve continued working on my master thesis, while simultaneously preparing for my exams in January (which I passed without problems).
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
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,
Improving Drupal's page loading performance
Google dominates the search engine market for a large part thanks to its spartan, no-bells-nor-whistles interfaces. But also thanks to its incredible speed (which is partially thanks to that spartan interface, of course). Since you’re reading this article, you’re probably a Drupal developer. It’s pretty likely that you’ve had some visitors of your Drupal-powered web site complain about slow page load times. It doesn’t matter whether your server(s) are shared, VPSes or even dedicated servers. Visitors that live abroad – i.e. far from where your servers are located – will face the same performance issues, but at even worse scales.This article is about tackling these issues.