Eleventh week: last struggles & Holiday Party
This week at FacebookOn Monday, I worked on getting my code committed and tied up many loose ends. I got very positive feedback from my manager! :) (This is the feedback based upon which I would or...
View ArticleTwelfth week: wrapping up
Wrapping upMy last week at Facebook … it seemed so long until I could finally return to my beloved Anneleen. Simultaneously, time seems to have flown by. And by now, I had grown accustomed to living in...
View ArticleLooking for a job
The time has finally come.I’m looking for a job!After ±5 years of hard work at Hasselt University, I will graduate as a master in computer science next month. I finished my master thesis and courses in...
View ArticleHow to easily set up key-based SSH authentication
You want to set up key-based authentication so you can ssh into a server without entering that pesky password over and over again?If you have to do this often, then use this wonderful one-liner to...
View ArticleWorking at Nascom!
On January 2, I announced that I was looking for a job. Since that announcement, I’ve talked with >65 companies. I’ve had actual interviews with >30 of them. Most of them are based out of...
View ArticleLlama bank card
I recently had my site redesigned (and that’s still in flux), but I also had a logo designed. Since I’m very much fond of llamas, I decided my logo would be a llama. (That one sits at the bottom of...
View ArticleEasy Drupal CDN integration for fun and profit
Speed up your Drupal site with a CDNin a few minutes.The fun part: it’s nice to learn how to make any Drupal site significantly faster in a few minutes. The profit part: faster websites lead to more...
View ArticleWorking at Acquia!
After working at Nascom for a very brief time, I will soon start working at Acquia! I’ll be working on the Spark project as a Senior Software Engineer in the Office of the CTO (OCTO), reporting...
View ArticleSpark update: WYSIWYG choice
A few weeks ago, we showed the in-line editing prototype we had built for Spark, which has now blossomed into Edit module. Additionally, we also pointed out that we were in the process of selecting the...
View ArticleAloha – Drupal/Spark sprint report
We had already let you know that we would be using Aloha Editor as the WYSIWYG editor in Spark. In short: it has a very complete feature set, a proven plug-in system, solid cross-browser support, it...
View ArticlePractical WPO intro
I was asked to do an introductory session on WPO for the course “Network software and architectures” at Hasselt University and interweave that with my story (how my WPO-related bachelor & master...
View ArticleGraduation ceremony
For the 2012 Hasselt University Science Faculty graduation ceremony (“proclamatie” in Dutch), I was asked to present my experiences as an intern at Facebook.Since the audience consisted of not only...
View ArticleCDN webinar
Acquia frequently does Drupal-related webinars and given my background with CDN integration, I was asked to present on a particular piece of CDN integration.using a CDN for resources only versus for...
View ArticleDrupal Speaks — Aural UIs & new accessibility features
At DrupalCon Portland, I presented together with fellow Acquia Spark team memberJesse Beach on the accessibility improvements that we helped bring to Drupal 8. See...
View ArticleDrupal 8: best authoring experience for structured content?
Drupal 8 will ship with big authoring experience improvements: WYSIWYG editing & in-place editing, thanks to the Spark distribution that Acquia — my employer — is sponsoring.But how well does it...
View Articlemr-drupal: simpler Drupal code updating & deployment
What?This article proposes a novel, simpler way of managing Drupal sites (where “managing” in this case is solely code updating & deployment).It relies on only one command-line tool: mr (“a...
View ArticleThe iPhone Dock Bed
My girlfriend and I both have an iPhone. Every night when we go to bed, we plug them in for charging. We also use them as our alarm clocks.Until very recently, we did this by using the typical charger....
View ArticleBuilding 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. It’s also (finally!) going to cache all...
View ArticleCKEditor in Drupal 8: site builders & developers Q&A's
We had two CKEditor Q&A BoFs at DrupalCon Prague: one for site builders, one for developers. They both used the same presentation to get everybody up to speed, but we applied different nuances.This...
View ArticleDrupal 8: perf & ops — cache tags & pluggable asset optimization
For this short talk, I chose two particular improvements in Drupal 8 that will make a big difference for future Drupal sites’ performance and ops (infrastructure requirements).The addition of cache...
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