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Press Start: Blog Up! – An Atlanta Blogger Meetup

June 18, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

One of the things that my team at 8BIT is passionate about is education specifically in the publishing space. It’s taken us some time to begin putting together a series of events now that we actually have space to support it, we’re offering a 100% free Atlanta blogger meetup here at the office.

This is the first of a series of events that we have planned for the summer.

Some are paid, some are free, but one thing that we’re looking forward to the most is meeting like-minded people who love blogging, development, designer, the Internet, and all things in between.

But our ultimate goal is not simply to meet people – it’s to equip people to do a better job at what they already do, or what they want to do.

All About The Trailing Slash in WordPress

June 17, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

Last week, I wrote a post discussing why I think it’s important to use a trailing slash in WordPress.

The point of the post was to state that when you’re working with URLs and you’re looking for the last index of the array, the only way to guarantee the it’s always at the final position is if there’s a trailing slash so that you can `explode` on the ‘/’ character.

This post lead to some good discussion about why or why not to use `trailingslashit`, it brought to light to some other important and useful functions, and actually reminded me that there are times when trailing slashes should be used and when they shouldn’t.

To that end, I thought I’d thought I’d do a more thorough explanation as to each of the “trailing slash” functions WordPress offers, their purpose, and why trailing slashes are even important in the context of URLs.

Using trailingslashit in WordPress

June 14, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

When it comes to working with URLs, I believe that we should often be using `trailingslashit` in WordPress.

This is post is part of a larger discussion that I’ll be covering in more detail in another post, but here’s the gist of why I’m a fan of using `trailingslashit`.

Here’s why: there’s only a handful of operations that you can really be doing:

Setting up some type of rewrite rules or routes
Sniffing out parts of the URL to check for data
Redirecting (or protecting) users from content based on their status
…and maybe a few more

When it comes to examining the contents of the URL, one of the most common – if not the most common – way of doing it is using `explode` and then examine the various indexes of the array.

But in order to properly handle this, I think that we have an obligation to code defensively against URLs because we never know how users, third party libraries, or other clients are going to provide said URL.

And thus the case for always using `trailingslashit` in WordPress projects.

My First Post on Medium: “It’s So Hard To Find Good Help These Days”

June 14, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

If you're interested in tracking all of my posts on Medium, be sure to bookmark this link.

This week, I ended up writing my first post on Medium and, as promised, thought I’d share my thoughts on my initial experience.

Ah, an in case you’re a drive-by reader, last week, I shared that I had received an invitation to Medium and shared a few of my thoughts on the tension of writing on the platform. So the purpose of this post is to revisit my thoughts from that post, and share about my experience thus far.

At this point, with a single post, there’s not much to say, but here’s what I have to offer.
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How To Easily Filter Names in jQuery

June 13, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

If you're an advanced developer or just want the TL;DR version of this, skip to the code.

One of the more common UI design patterns is to render a table of data that includes rows that include people’s names, various information about them, and so on.

Usually, there are some type of control elements that allow you to filter the data by some type of criteria. Obviously, this is especially useful with large datasets where you don’t want to page through pages of data or scroll for a significantly long length of time.

Though there are a variety of ways to filter data – especially if you want to do so through the use of different values – one way that’s most common is to filter data by a person’s name.

If the data set is really large, this is often something that’s best left to process on the server side; however, if the data set is modest, it’s really easy to filter names in jQuery.