Building really fast websites with Drupal 8
Drupal 8 is going to have better front-end performance for anonymous users out of the box: it is now smart enough to no longer load unnecessary JavaScript.
mr-drupal: simpler Drupal code updating & deployment
This article proposes a novel, simpler way of managing Drupal sites (where “managing” in this case is solely code updating & deployment).
Drupal 8: best authoring experience for structured content?
Drupal 8 will ship with big authoring experience improvements: WYSIWYG editing & in-place editing, thanks to the
Drupal Speaks — Aural UIs & new accessibility features
At DrupalCon Portland, I presented together with fellow Acquia Spark team member Jesse Beach on the accessibility improvements
Aloha – Drupal/Spark sprint report
We had already let you know that we would be using Aloha Editor as the WY
Spark update: WYSIWYG choice
A few weeks ago, we showed the in-line editing prototype we had built for Spark, which has now blossomed into
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 in
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 system even
Drupal’s page loading performance in 2010
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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
Faster & more flexible CDN integration
More details coming soon.
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