Load balancers are incredibly useful when a single server isn’t capable of handling the load or if you wan’t greater reliability. But what if bandwidth is the limiting factor, what…
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Hello! My name is Thomas Bensmann
and I'm a developer
I’m crazy about two things, technology and nature. When those two are combined, it’s magic!
I work as a CTO at Nettmaker, based in Oslo, Norway. We primarily do web stuff – mostly based on WordPress. Here I strive to help our clients achieve their goals online!
These days my time is spent on web development, fitness and rambling about Tesla (or any other of Elon’s crazy plans). If you want to reach out to me about any of the above, follow me on Instagram or Twitter.
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A year of cold showers
It’s now been well over a year since I started this habit. As a matter of fact, during this time I have replaced the warm showers all together. This was…
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jQuery resize-end event
Recently I was asked about jQuery’s resize event. It runs its resize while the users resizes the window – meaning it can be triggered hundreds of times before ending the…
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WordPress on Digital Ocean’s Managed MySQL Databases
Earlier this year Digital Ocean launched Managed Databases. At that time, only PostgreSQL was made available, and now MySQL and Redis have finally landed as well. I have now done…
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First impression of Digital Ocean’s Managed Databases
Last night Digital Ocean launched Managed Databases, a service I have been looking forward to. For now it’s only available for PostgreSQL (which I hardly ever use) but MySQL support…
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Pros and Cons of a Home Gym
It has been a little over a year since I started to put together our home gym, and it was around this time that I transitioned into working from home.…
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