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Live 80s Music at the Daybreak Volunteer Celebration
I had the pleasure to join the regular staff at Daybreak and serve all our amazing volunteers. On top of that I enjoyed taking in an 80s music concert as well. I was in elementary school in the 80s so some would think that I would identify more with 90s music. It’s a both/and relationship for me, but for whatever reason I gravitate to 80s music. The following song was played last night and came up on my Google Play Music station this morning. For sure a 80s favorite. Check out Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey:
Talking to Other Sites with the WP HTTP API – Topher DeRosia
Why Talk To Other Sites? Ask them questions – Getting Data Tell them things – Process Requests. How is This Done? GET – wp_remote_get() POST – wp_remote_post() HEAD – wp_remote_head() Cache API Content WordPress Sites (/wp-json) – pull public WordPress site dataWordCamp US 2019 – Code Like A Writer – Alex Ball
Writing Principles Punctuation Saves Lives Separate your metaphors separate your concerns making good comments Coding Principles Syntax Form – code formatting Spellcheck – code linting DRY – Don’t repeat yourself Redundant words just take up time Code is Poetry Being creative Clean and concise Doing as much as it can with as little as possible In Stories Someone Usually Dies in the End In AJAX function wp_die() at the end.
WordCamp GR 2017 – WP-API: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – J Andrew Scott
J Andrew Scott – http://rubberchickenfarm.com/ History of APIs RSS Advantages Fast & reliable Easy to consume Almost no technical footprint Disadvantages Read-only Static content No authentication No user-driven content (i.e. comments, favorites, etc) DIY API Advantages Dynamic content User-driven content App & user authentication Roles & permissions based Connected applications Disadvantages DIY OAuth Redundant URI scheme Mediocre performance Large technical footprint WP-API Advantages Succinct URI scheme Improved performance Small technical footprint Available in WordPress core Disadvantages Granular transactions No batch uploads Increased number of API calls What once required 2 web servers now required 12-15 servers WP-API Disadvantage Factors & Solutions Number of content types Solution: consolidate endpoints Volume of individual API calls Solution: batch processing endpoints Frequency of individual API calls Solution: page-level caching Lessons…
WPGR: Learn about the Developer Tools in your browser
Firefox Developer Tools – Topher Inspector – look at HTML/CSS behind a web page Responsive Display Mode Console – look for errors (security/resource loading issues) Different results depending on when you open – loading vs loaded Debugger – for JavaScript Style Editor – for changing CSS Performance – monitoring page load performance Network – Storage – Local browser items, page cache, cookies, etc. Chrome Developer Tools – Brian Shortcuts – keyboard commands to open dev tools (CTRL-OPT-I[Mac OS X]/CTRL-SHIFT-I[ChromeOS]) Docking – SHIFT-CMD-D(Mac OS X) / CTRL-SHIFT-D(Chrome OS) Elements (inspector) Styles – Filter allows for viewing specific CSS states (i.e. :hover) Add specific element styles Color Swatch – has a color picker, can save swatches Computed Styles View a visual representation of spacing See the CSS that…
Beyond Blessed
I am beyond blessed with an amazing wife. It’s going to be a long 10 days without Vanessa when she heads to #Africa with the World Hope Daybreak team.





