Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development
One of the best things about doing any type of experiment is that you’re not necessarily committed to following through on anything beyond seeing if the idea has any value.
Last week, I asked – in awkwardness and all – if there was any reason or interest in discussing WordPress development via a series of video blog posts. Overall, the response between the comments and via Twitter was nearly 50/50.
Be sure to read the follow-up post about the status of future video posts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLu8_k46HT0&feature=youtu.be&hd=1
As I mention in the video, this is my first venture into video blogging.
And yes, it’s awkward, but a number of developers, bloggers, and friends who I respect have done this so I thought I might as well as try it.
This project has been retired, though the source code is still available on GitHub.
Collapsible Menus for jQuery is a small jQuery plugin that I released earlier this year. From the project’s original post:
Collapsible Menus is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to create a collapsible menu using nested, unordered lists.
Easy enough, right?
It’s a small plugin that’s receives very few emails, comments, and issues; however, when they arise, I try to resolve them quickly. As of today, I’ve just released Collapsible Menus 1.1.
In the last couple of months, I’ve had a number of conversations with others that ultimately made it into interviews, podcasts, screencasts, and more.
For the most part, getting into podcasting (or just generally improved audio recording) is relatively easy, but I thought I’d share my notes here as I ended up having to do quite a bit of research on both hardware and software prior to making any purchases.
Here’s a rundown of my podcasting equipment including both hardware and software.
I've written a follow up post to this article that you can read here.
Personally, I’m a big fan of implementing coding standards and/or style guides for each of our various languages. Ultimately, I think that it helps to make a team’s code more readable and maintainable.
On one hand, some developers are better at adopting said standards than others, whereas other developers enjoying helping to write the documentation, books, and pull requests to make sure code is up to the given standard.
Although I’m personally a big fan of coding standards, there’s always room for small improvements in each language that help optimize a developer’s work flow.
As such, I thought I’d share two things that I do as part of my HTML code styles that help make code more readable and improve the workflow in my IDE.
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