Hi! I’m Wim, live in the beautiful bike-centric city of Ghent and I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to work full time on making Drupal better & faster for over a decade now! (I’m also interested in energy efficiency, smart home shenanigans and think more software empathy would make the world a better place.)
Backwards Compatibility: Burden & Benefit
In my job at Acquia, I’ve been working almost exclusively on Drupal 8 core. In 2012–2013 I worked on authoring experience (in-place editing, CKEditor, and more).
Ode to OpenTracker
This is an ode to Dirk Engling’s OpenTracker.
A career thanks to open source
Hasselt University Professor Frank Neven asked me to come and talk a bit about my experience in open source, and how it helped me.
BigPipe
Did you know that often the majority of the time spent generating a HTML page is spent on a few dynamic/uncacheable/personalized parts?
Drupal 8.1: BigPipe as an experimental module
Today, Drupal 8.1 has been released and it includes BigPipe as an experimental module.
A RESTless week
I spent about a week of my time at Acquia on improving Drupal 8’s REST support. That time was spent fixing, reviewing, triaging and documenting.
BigPipe webinar
This talk covers everything in BigPipe (the webinar I did a few weeks ago was only an introdu
BigPipe introduction webinar
Acquia frequently does webinars and given my work on BigPipe, I was asked to present with Fabien Potencier (of
Performance Calendar 2015: "2013 is calling: are CMSes fast by default yet?"
This year, Performance Planet did an advent calendar again, just like the last few years.
Drupal 8: BigPipe module ready
I’m happy to announce that Fabian Franz and I managed to get a first release of BigPipe published today, coinciding with the
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