Peter J. Herrel diggy

"Medium traffic" = able to handle around 50 concurrent users on average.

If you want to handle 100+ concurrent users with the same modest hardware see the Varnish section below.

VPS

4096 MB memory
125GB SSD
4 CPUs
Cpanel

Git Submodules - Basic Explanation

Why submodules?

In Git you can add a submodule to a repository. This is basically a sub-repository embedded in your main repository. This can be very useful. A couple of usecases of submodules:

Separate big codebases into multiple repositories.

How to set up Gulp with an ExpressionEngine project

I freaking love working with technologies like Grunt and Gulp, and wanted to share how to get my current EE front-end workflow set up. With a few tweaks, this can also be used with virtually any other sites (I've used it with Laravel, static sites, Craft, etc).

Install Node.js

If Node is not yet installed on the machine, it will need to be installed

Install Gulp (if needed)

Templating in EE vs. Craft CMS.

Here are a few common tasks you might do in your templates, as they would be written in ExpressionEngine vs. Craft CMS.

	<?php

	$plugin_info = array(
	'pi_name' => 'debug_override',
	'pi_version' =>'1.0',
	'pi_author' =>'GDmac',
	'pi_author_url' => '',
	'pi_description' => '',
	'pi_usage' => '{exp:debug_override override="all\|ajax"} default is override on ajax calls',
	);

	# Compiled source #
	###################
	*.com
	*.class
	*.dll
	*.exe
	*.o
	*.so

	# Packages #

	<?php

	/**
	* Get tweet count from Twitter API (v1.1)
	*/
	function wds_post_tweet_count( $post_id ) {

	// Check for transient
	if ( ! ( $count = get_transient( 'wds_post_tweet_count' . $post_id ) ) ) {

	<?php

	/**
	* Plugin Name: MU plugins subdirectory loader
	* Plugin URI: https://gist.github.com/lavoiesl/6302907
	* Description: Enables the loading of plugins sitting in mu-plugins (as folders)
	* Version: 0.1
	* Author: [email protected]
	* Author URI: http://blog.lavoie.sl/
	*

	<div class="module__image image--lazy"
	data-image-src="Tim-Smith_220x140_220_140_int_c1.jpg"></div>