I Think this XKCD just about sums up what i do! http://xkcd.com/705/
I’m English by birth (don’t laugh!), Been living in the land of cold and rain for 24 years now, just recently moved to warmer climates (Harare, Zimbabwe) When I was 14 I experienced Linux for the first time with a Knoppix Live CD, since then I got the linux bug and started playing around with it. I got into Web Design/Development at around the same time through my A Level coursework and thats when i first took a look at WordPress. The Following 2 years I kind of messed around with WP, Drupal, and PHPNuke etc, trying to understand them and (at the time) failing!
Through 2007 to 2010 while studying Computer Science at university I got to play with WordPress a bit more (although my degree was totally irrelevant to what I do now, it was useful for something!) and finally built my personal site on wordpress and started learning how to make it go fast (and learned that shared hosting really isn’t that great in most cases)
In 2009 I started doing freelance server administration work for companies using WordPress, Drupal and Magento and consulting on various new infrastructure builds. Then in mid 2011, I joined W3 EDGE and so the Journey began in working with WP pretty much full time, building and manage infrastructure high traffic sites that have to utilise multiple scaling philosophies while maintaining high performance and I help support the infrastructure day-to-day.
I am pretty much all powered by open source and coffee!
Session: Site Speed = Success! – Optimising WordPress from the Server up
Time: 13:35 – 13:50
