Cal Freitas

I am an Engineering Manager at PublicSquare. I am a Principal Front-End Engineer by trade. At Swarzy, I built Verses for Life and Psalmlist.

Open source loves MariaDB

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The open source community has begun to switch from MySQL to MariaDB.

MariaDB is “an enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL” and has been created by the developers who originally built MySQL (before it was acquired by Sun Microsystems and Oracle).

The latest major open source project to embrace MariaDB is Wikipedia who announced on April 22, 2013, that they have migrated the English and German Wikipedias to MariaDB 5.5.

Several major Linux repositories have recently adopted MariaDB including Slackware, Arch Linux, and openSUSE.

Update 06/14/2013:
Red Hat has announced it will be switching from MySQL to MariaDB in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.

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Web Performance Optimization for WordPress (Slides)

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The slides for this presentation have been archived and are no longer available.

View slides from my presentation about “Web Performance Optimization for WordPress”. The slides are in HTML, CSS, and JS; you can view them in any modern web browser.

Load up the slides and then use your arrow keys to navigate, “G” to go to a specific slide number, and “M” will give you an overview of the slides.

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Speaking at Seattle WordPress Developers Meetup in October

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I’ll be speaking at the October Seattle WordPress Developers Meetup.

Topic
Web Performance Optimization for WordPress

Summary
I will be presenting on web performance optimization for WordPress with an emphasis on front-end optimization. I’ll provide tips and tricks for optimizing WordPress sites, best practices for theme and plugin development, and information about plugins and tools to help you optimize WordPress sites.

Date & Time
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
7:00PM

Location
The Alibi Room

I’ll post slides after the meetup.

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