gurdeep.ninja – Magento Frontend Developer

Magento 2 Open Source – How to investigate outstanding issues

Posted on 23rd February 2020 By Gurdeep

A little history It’s been a long time since I delved into Magento 2 development – I gave up in 2017 when the 2.1 release […]

General

Google search results – another blunder in usability?

Posted on 23rd January 2020 By Gurdeep

Recently Google just rolled out a new look and feel for their search results. It looks like they are now adopting their usage of icon/imagery […]

General

Google search menu icons – my gripe.

Posted on 21st June 2019 By Gurdeep

Intro Google recently rolled out icons to accompany the type of searches available to users: Why use icons anyway? Icons are helpful to easily attribute […]

General

Google PageSpeed Insights – my experience

Posted on 6th February 2019 By Gurdeep

Introduction Alas it’s time for me to talk about Google PageSpeed and my experience. I set myself down this path after my current employer wanted […]

General

OVH & SoYouStart Failover IP Ubuntu 18.04 Server

OVH / SoYouStart IP failover / alias – Ubuntu 18.04 + netplan

Posted on 31st January 2019 By Gurdeep

Introduction OVH and SoYouStart offer free failover IP’s with dedicated servers. You initially request a new failover IP address directly with OVH / SoYouStart – […]

Servers

A practical guide to calculate your freelance hourly rate

Posted on 30th January 2019 By Gurdeep

Introduction Calculating your freelance rate or even negotiating your full time salary can be quite difficult. The more you have an idea of your outgoings, […]

General

Magento Hosting – Rackspace or Peer1 or Sonassi or …

Posted on 29th January 2019 By Gurdeep

I did write quite a lot.. but just figured it would be easier to wrap this up in a few sentences. Don’t waste your time […]

Magento, Servers

PHP-FPM – process management

Posted on 2nd April 2018 By Gurdeep

Introduction PHP-FPM has a fully functional pool configuration file out of the box – the idea of this article is to explore the default configuration […]

Servers

Networking Hyper-V & Linux / Ubuntu virtual machine internet access

Posted on 21st March 2018 By Gurdeep

You’re probably here because you want a quick and simple way of giving your Hyper-V virtual machine internet access. Look no further, it’ll take you […]

Servers