ghost - Gabor Javorszky

Budapest, November

Woo! Right, so, I’m incredibly excited about this post. It’s going to be mostly about how awesome time I had in Budapest and Szeged, so no technical things here. On to the story! A few months ago @nthgergo asked me whether I want to give a talk on

wordpress

Transactional email providers

I'm directly responsible for the Direct email sending in Ghost's core, which means that instead of the server trying to figure out whether there's sendmail installed and using that, it will just hurl the message at the recipient’s email server. This of course runs the risk of the server

digital

My dream work environment

These are some of the things I’d love to have. I’ll explain further. Everything that I have to actually DO lives in Github: assigned tasks, conversations about approaches, code review, EVERYTHING. Comms with the team is through Slack. Seriously, half the internet is salivating over it, with 110%

software

Sane PCRE URL Regex for PHP

So it turns out that there are some "oddities" in the spec and URLs that don't seem like URLs are actually URLs, and thus PHP's filter_var lets them pass. TLDs are not a requirement for example. This created some interesting conflicts though. I'm building an exporter that

software

Is Ghost hard to install?

I guess in the developer world I could consider myself as a dual-wielding character. I do WordPress websites at my dayjob to the point where I'm uncovering bugs in core (not to mention some of the big plugins we're using), and I'm also a core dev on Ghost. That's two