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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,…
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…
A Guide to Commit Messages, Tracking Development History
I love this guide from Aaron on keys to maintaining a solid SCM history.
Geek / Programming / TechIf Money Were No Object, What I’d Choose For My Next Developer Machine
These days I’m sporting an HP Chromebook 13 G1 which has mostly been a good machine. Seems like even with 8GB of RAM I still end up with some freeze ups when I’m plugging in or unplugging my USB-C dock. It’s rather frustrating but fortunately Google Chrome is designed to recognize abrupt closes and can recover. I used to run in developer mode but now since I can run Android apps I’m using Termux with a Linux shell and Neovim as my IDE. I’m still working out the best setup for Neovim but so far it’s serving me well. So back to the premise of this post and the main image. If I had the finances to support it I’d want my next machine to…






