Tutorials

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August 16, 2023

Installing Eclipse PDT and Java JRE onto a RAM disk under macOS

Other IDEs come and go. Yes I'm looking at you Atom. But Eclipse PDT is still around. It's not the most popular one, nor does it fully support PHP 8, yet. Nonetheless, it's still a great, highly customisable IDE. A bit bloated, a bit slow at times but a worthy alternative to VS Code, PhpStorm, Nova, Sublime Text and whatnot.... This article shows you how to install and setup this IDE with Java onto a RamDisk on macOS for maximum performance.

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& Web Development

December 15, 2022

Build & Watch SASS files and other frontend assets with PHP

I use NodeJS, its package manager NPM, and even NVM to install different versions of NPM in many projects to build frontend assets. My recurring use case is: compile some SASS files into CSS, join some files, minify the output, copy fonts and icon fonts, pre-compress static assets, and so on. I am familiar with helper tools like Grunt and Gulp to set up these tasks. In a recent PHP project, I tried to avoid the use of NodeJS/NPM. I was surprised how easy it is to achieve the same results with nothing but plain old PHP.

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& Tutorials

January 6, 2022

WebP Support in WordPress and image conversion

This is part 17 of my article series 25+ Tutorials on How to boost the performance of your WooCommerce store. While JPEG and PNG have been a de-facto standard for storing images for the web for a long time, webp is here to change that. With an estimated reduction of 30% of storage space requirement, the impact for improved load times, and bandwidth usage is significant. Wordpress comes with support for WebP since version 5.8.

January 3, 2022

Deactivate the REST API

This is part 13 of my article series 25+ Tutorials on How to boost the performance of your WooCommerce store. In this article we take a brief look at the Wordpress REST API and how deactivating it may or may not boost your sites' performance.

January 3, 2022

Deactivate automatic updates

This is part 16 of my article series 25+ Tutorials on How to boost the performance of your WooCommerce store. While automatic updates seems to be a good idea for blogs and smaller websites – in Ecommerce this feature might set you up for disaster. Disable automatic updates, in order for you to control plugin and core updates in a stable (development, staging, production) environment.

January 3, 2022

Utilise the WordPress Firewall to prevent plugins from phoning home

This is part 15 of my article series 25+ Tutorials on How to boost the performance of your WooCommerce store. Activating and configuring Wordpress' firewall is one of the easiest ways to improve the performance of Wordpress & WooCommerce. The more plugins you are using, the more important it is to know about this feature.

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