Software Engineering in Web Development, Backend Services, and More
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.
If you're an experienced developer, you can skip to the code by clicking here.
If you’re in the business of hosting WordPress-based sites or at least managing WordPress-based sites, then it’s likely that you’re also responsible for managing email accounts or how email is relayed from the site and the server to its visitors.
And depending on the nature of your setup, this may not be a problem; however, if you’re operating on some type of hosted solution, some type of managed hosting, or aren’t using a third-party solution such as Google Apps, then there’s a chance that site visitors are receiving emails from their favorite WordPress-based site with incorrect or unclear email sender information.
Case in point: I manage a site where comment notification emails were being sent with the following formation:
[ Site Name ] [My Email Address] via [Server Name ]
Obviously, this is okay if it’s my site, but a client’s site? Negative.
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