Software Engineering in Web Development, Backend Services, and More
I’ve been finishing up an application that has a number of custom controller actions. All except one action – the approved action – require user authorization before retrieving any information from the database.
Specifically, I wanted to authentication the administrator for all actions except the approved action for both JSON and XML responses (but not HTML responses).
Here’s how to do it in Rails 3:
One of the most powerful aspects of WordPress is how easy it is to localize your work so that international users can take advantage of your work. Unfortunately, it’s far too common for developers to forgo this step in their work.
I recently shared a post on Envato for how to localize WordPress Themes and Plugins.
I spent the majority of the week heads down on two major projects both of which I’m hoping to share within the next week or two. Until there, here are some of the best resources I found around the web:
One of the nicest things about working with WordPress is how easy it is to development on top of it. The downside is that just because it’s easy to accomplish certain tasks doesn’t mean that you’re doing it correctly.
In my most recent post on Envato, I discuss five cardinal sins of WordPress development.
Rough week, but here are some of the best resources I stumble across this week
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