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Category: Writing

  • eBook on WordPress development and deployment

    Advanced WordPress development

    Last weeks I’ve been busy finishing up an eBook with the kind of straight forward title: WordPress DevOps – Strategies for developing and deploying with WordPress It’s a 100 page guide covering how You can get WordPress to work a little bit better in a proper development process, covering automation, testing and deployment.

    If you’re interested, click here or on the book cover above to head on over to Leanpub and sign up for it. You’ll get an email as soon as it’s available for download. And yes, it will be available in pdf, epub and mobi formats. When you do sign up, please share your email address with me, I’d love to be able to stay in touch with you.

  • Rackspace and load test automation

    Well, last workday of this week turned out nice.

    I’ve been working with LoadImpact.com for a few months, providing text material for their blog. Mostly hands on technical stuff about load testing, how their tool can be used, and fun things you can find out with a good Load Testing tool at hand.

    But this week, one of my posts actually got published on the Rackspace Devops blog. I don’t have the numbers, but I’m suspecting that Rackspace to have quite a decent amount of readers. So Hooray! Not that Rackspace called me personally and begged for it, rather that Rackspace and LoadImpact are working together in other areas, but still, more readers, heh? Anyway, the space available for this first post on their blog was limited, so I almost immediately followed up with some nitty gritty details and a working demo. And yes, there’s code in there.

    I other news. Ferrari finished 9 and 10 in Belgium Grand Prix qualification (that’s F1) and I’ve just decided to port an ongoing project from CodeIgniter to Laravel 4. Only things that bugs me about that is that Laravel 4 seem to have more runtime overhead than CI. Expect more on the conversion process in the next few weeks.

    Now, time to prepare saturday dinner and a get glass of the red stuff.

     

     

     

     

     

  • Load testing tools vs monitoring tools

    Seems all writing I have time for these days is for others. Anyway, latest post on the LoadImpact blog is published. Go read.

  • Node.js scalability and tech writers

    I’ve just published a text on the LoadImpact blog. This time I write a little bit about the findings I made when trying to put a little heavier load on a very simple Node.js, turns out that Node.js is not a silver bullet after all. Who would have guessed.

    If you need content for your blog or magazine. I’m available as a guest writer. I write mostly about coding, web standards, open source technology and similar subjects. Don’t hesitate to contact me if you have questions or if you want to get a quote.

     

  • LoadImpact

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    I’ve just started blogging as a guest writer at LoadImpact.com. If you’re not already familiar with LoadImpact, go check them out. They provide the word leading load test as cloud service solution and is free to try out.

    Today my first post was published about the difference between Node.js and PHP as server side languages/environments.

    So, get out of here already and read about it.