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 system even
Drupal’s page loading performance in 2010
Related links: http://wimleers.com/tags/bachelor-thesis http://drupal.org/project/cdn http://drupal.org/project/episodes http://fileconveyor.org/ http://wimleers.com/tags/master-thesis
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
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
Page loading profiling tools
In this article, seven distinctly different page loading profiling tools are compared: UA Profiler, Cuzillion,
Drupal CDN integration: easier, more flexible and faster!
Details coming soon. Related links: http://wimleers.com/tags/bachelor-thesis http://drupal.org/project/cdn http://drupal.org/project/episodes
Improving Drupal's page loading performance
I’ve posted the slides to SlideShare already, but more will be added soon! :)
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.