Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development
This week, I clocked out of my role as a Senior Backend Engineer at WebDevStudios (and it was a great 2.5 years of solid work on some very interesting projects), and began working as a Senior Developer at Awesome Motive.
I’m sure I’ll have plenty to share as I settled into the new role but, until then, I here are some of the resources I’ve found over the week:
Continue readingHere’s a list of resources for the previous week including things for PHP, JavaScript, and other articles and tools. I also talk a little bit about where else I am and may start posting content.
Continue readingThis past weekend, we celebrated the Fourth of July here in the States. If you celebrated anything over the past weekend, I hope it was great. If not, perhaps the next holiday will be 🙂.
Continue readingTL;DR: If you’re working on a variety of projects each of which requires different versions of PHP, Composer, and/or NPM you may need to change the version of all or any permutation of any of these utilities.
This article outlines what steps need to be taken to downgrade Composer, PHP, or NPM when working on any given project.
Continue readingTL;DR: I’m tired of writing code without consistent standards (I often work on code that changes between WordPress or PSR2) so this is how I installed PHP Coding Standards via Composer and a few extra extensions for the project. This also details how to automatically format the code on save.
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