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Ghost vs Wordpress Performance

I've posted about my reasons for switching blogging platforms [https://www.garybell.co.uk/switching-blogging-platforms] to Ghost, but ahead of doing so I wanted to be able to compare the performance benefits of doing so. When I used Wordpress, I was managing the infrastructure myself, but also had

Switching blogging platforms

If you are reading this, you may have noticed that there's a new look and feel to the site. I've moved from my self-hosted WordPress platform to a managed Ghost blog. There at several authors which I respect who have made the same change, and I

Starting with Symfony - Performance issues

When I chose Symfony, I did so on the understanding that it was going to be a relatively lightweight, performance framework which I could use to build web apps which scale nicely and respond quickly. I started out with a tutorial where the first activity was to get the name

Getting Started with Symfony (part 1)

I'm about to make a change in my career and go back into development. To help me do that I've started a course on Udemy for getting up and running with Symfony 4. I figured that if I was going to be working with frameworks, I

Jenkins disk space usage

Jenkins disk space usage

I'm working on a project, part time, in my spare time. As part of that project I have Jenkins for continual building when I publish anything into the master branch in git. I've not done much for a month or so, but logged in to it

Automating the simple stuff

We all use computers for one thing or another, and in most cases we'll do the same things on them over and over. Part of being a developer is realising the things which need doing a lot, and automating them to increase productivity. Doesn't matter what

Encrypting the site

I've just moved my site from HTTP over to HTTPS. It's not a huge deal for something like this, but it's something which I've really needed to do for a while, and something which is becoming more and more popular. For most