Needed a script for work to recursively spider one of our sites to check for problems and build a content inventory. As a side project, produced a little shell script that just checks links and produces a report by HTTP response code.
Was looking for a way to purge Varnish cache when pages are updated or added. WordPress Varnish plugin looks exactly like what I’m after, except it threw up some errors out of the box.
I’m considering implementing Varnish at Stanford Law and have been playing with it here to understand implications and workout issues. One issue is purging pages from cache as they are modified or new pages are added. Varnish provides several methods to do this (varnishadm, telnet and http).