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Enterprise API Development…Navigating The Battlefield
Right now at work I’m the lead on a project to establish a new vendor API. Unfortunately there were decisions made on key specifications of how the API was to be developed before it was handed to me. Where I work there is a lot of legacy standards and so it’s challenging to introduce new technologies as a standard. I do see that there is a constant struggle between what APIs are needed internally versus externally, for B2B integrations. I’m always looking to try to balance this out whenever I can.
WordPress DevOps – WordCamp Grand Rapids 2018
1. Introductions Development History High School 1996 – Personal School Website – image maps with cgi-bin processing written in C 1996 – Davisco Foods International (First Freelance Job) – static HTML site College 2000 – Inspiration Point Christian Camp & Retreat Center – perl for form processing, PHP template-based site Post-College 2002 – Cross Roads Range Christian Camp – PHP CMS 2004-2006 – Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America & related ministries – PHP CMS, PHP Authorize.NET Donation Processing, osCommerce 2006 – iPCS Wireless, Inc. (telecommunications) – PHP & Perl 2011 – Ericsson/Sprint (telecommunications) – PHP/.NET/C#/Java 2012 – Allen Extruders/SPI (manufacturing) – PHP/Ruby/C#/.NET 2016 – Sprint (telecommunications) – Java/C#/.NET WordPress History Personal 2006 – Personal Blog 2006 – Faith Shaping Podcast 2008 – The Stamp Box,…
Development / Geek / Programming / Tech / WordPressTalking WPRig and Theming in the Gutenberg Era with Morten Rand-Hendricksen
This month we’re taking a look at the WPRig WordPress framework from its developer Morten Rand-Hendricksen. This will be a live remote presentation with Q&A as time allows. If you want to learn more ahead of the meetup, follow this link https://wprig.io/ “Pave the cowpath” – WordPress could be the thing that paves the cowpath for the modern web, but it isn’t. Underscores used to be the starting theme do build off of, but there was no real standard, and modern, build process. Build Process Modern JavaScript Modern CSS (customer properties, etc) WordPress Coding Standards Code Linting for PHP, JS, CSS Automatic internationalization Code and asset optimization Starter Theme Accessible Modern best-practices Styled out of the box Minimum required files Optional templates Progressive features Gutenberg New…






