How the author got into writing a paper on WordPress performance optimizations? When I was younger (about 12–13 years old), I started to wonder about how the Internet and the web sites work and from what are they made of. That marked my life-long interest in web development. A few years ago, me and my …
Author Archives: Rastislav Lamoš
Chapter 1 almost finished
Today, I set myself a goal — write and finish the first chapter of my bachelor’s thesis. I managed to complete the text about what WordPress is and why it needs performance optimizations, but I’m still not finished with writing about my background and why I’m competent solving such a complex issue. Back to writing…
Presentation of references and resources
Today, I was chosen to present my bachelor thesis references and resources with a short introduction. Everything went smoothly and nicely. Note to myself: Keep an eye contact with an audience during a presentation.
Coding in the cloud without the need of local environment
At our company, we have been getting a few WordPress-based website jobs lately. Usually, three of us work simultaneously on such a project and need to edit the same codebase with the same database (so the theme settings and content stays the same). We can share the changed files through git and database through exports …
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How To Fix WordPress 3.8 ImageMagic Media Upload Error
Lately, I’ve been working on some WordPress projects for my clients and had this ‘Http Error’ when uploading images (only images) to the Media Library. What didn’t help? – Switching to the browser uploader. (When I switched I had a Proxy Error and blank page instead.) – Chmoding wp-content/uploads or the entire WordPress directory to …
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How to diff two files easily in vim
As the saying goes, if you do something for the first time, do it. If you do it for the second time, copy-paste the process. If you do it for the third time, find a way how to save the process somewhere so you don’t need to find and copy-paste it. And I need to …
Writing WordPress Articles with Code Examples in Vim using Markdown
Lately, I’v been thinking about writing blog articles in Vim and finally, I found a solution! But before we get to the how to part of the article, let my first outline some of the reasons I wanted to use Vim for article writing instead of WordPress online text editor.
PhpStorm and why I use it
For those who didn’t have any prior experience with JetBrains IDEs and applications, I can say that they are always top quality and very well known among large groups of developers. In this article, however, I’ll be focusing just on their web development IDE called PhpStorm (or the second IDE without PHP support called WebStorm), …
Create Google Map with Marker and Geocoder
As I’m learning JavaScript, I got an idea to make a simple Google Map with some additional stuff just to try it. I like the results so I decided to write a tutorial on how to make it. In this guide you’ll learn how to include Google Map on your website, how you make use …
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