Gun for hire!

It’s a brand new year! Well, it’s been a new year for a little while actually, but 2013 has been a busy one so far. I’ve been working hard on some interesting things, but I still managed a sneaky skiing trip. 2012 was an awesome year; I welcomed it in rawkus style with my former […]

Marcus Povey

It’s a brand new year! Well, it’s been a new year for a little while actually, but 2013 has been a busy one so far. I’ve been working hard on some interesting things, but I still managed a sneaky skiing trip. 2012 was an awesome year; I welcomed it in rawkus style with my former […]

Elgg plugin roundup

Over the past few weeks and months I’ve had to cause to write, update and dust off a number of Elgg plugins that I’ve had kicking about. As a good open source citizen I’ve stuck them up on github so others can have a play. Here they are, in no particular order: » H5F 1.8 […]

Marcus Povey

Over the past few weeks and months I’ve had to cause to write, update and dust off a number of Elgg plugins that I’ve had kicking about. As a good open source citizen I’ve stuck them up on github so others can have a play. Here they are, in no particular order: » H5F 1.8 […]

Profiling Elgg site performance with Statsd

StatsD, created by Etsy, is a simple Node.JS server that provides powerful way to collect numerous statistics about your web application, and to do so simply and quickly. At Etsy, they graph everything, which they use to great effect. Collecting statistics is cool because it gives you hard data about how your software is performing. […]

Marcus Povey

StatsD, created by Etsy, is a simple Node.JS server that provides powerful way to collect numerous statistics about your web application, and to do so simply and quickly. At Etsy, they graph everything, which they use to great effect. Collecting statistics is cool because it gives you hard data about how your software is performing. […]