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Nov
15
When APC appears to fail Drupal

When APC appears to fail Drupal

There are quite a large number of resources on the internet that exist due to the error that springs up
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Sep
17
Explaining Varnish for Beginners

Explaining Varnish for Beginners

A short time ago I published a presentation I gave at DrupalACT [http://drupalact.org.au/] entitled 'Varnish for Beginners
5 min read
Sep
03
Using git & drush to win at workflow

Using git & drush to win at workflow

As a sole developer or even as part of a small team (2-5 developers), setting up a development workflow seems
5 min read
Aug
29
Best practices, workflow and how not to break your site

Best practices, workflow and how not to break your site

On Friday August 23rd, I was part of a contingent of Acquia [https://www.acquia.com/] employees attending a Drupal
1 min read
Jun
14
Varnish for beginners

Varnish for beginners

My first experience with Varnish [https://www.varnish-cache.org/] was whilst I worked at Agileware [http://agileware.com.au/] and
1 min read
May
31
Website in a weekend

Website in a weekend

After seeing a few of the Confession pages spring up on facebook and with the StalkerSpace craze a while ago
2 min read
May
12
Feature creep and limitations

Feature creep and limitations

One of the first things I'd imagine a lot of freelancers experience is feature creep. What is feature creep? As
2 min read
Apr
11
Hostname and mail woes

Hostname and mail woes

A few months ago, I switched from using a Debian based distribution on my main machine to Fedora. I like
1 min read
Mar
30
Showing China the banhammer

Showing China the banhammer

Recently I started noticing a spike in the overall bandwidth on my server. A little bit of investigation revealed some
2 min read
Mar
18
Drupal Distributions: Speeding up site deployment

Drupal Distributions: Speeding up site deployment

Last Thursday I presented Drupal Distributions: Speeding up site deployment for the DrupalACT March [https://groups.drupal.org/node/285823]
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