Software Engineering in Web Development, Backend Services, and More
Personal opinions and how-to’s that I’ve written both here and as contributions to other blogs.
One of my favorite things about working with WordPress is the community around the platform and how easy it is to extend the core application through themes and plugins. One of the challenges of new WordPress developers is getting started with publishing their plugins.
As such, I contributed an article that can be found on Envato on how to publish to the WordPress plugin repository.
I had the pleasure of continuing my series on Envato about developing maintainable WordPress projects. In this article, I discuss writing maintainable WordPress plugins. Continue reading
Today, I had shared a few thoughts on Envato about writing maintainable WordPress widgets. In the post, I cover the following topics: Continue reading
Early in 2010, I ran a series of articles for JSMag that attempted to provide an introduction to JavaScript.
Over the course of five articles, I introduce JavaScript for beginners by discussing the five major features of the language.
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In September 2009, I contributed an article to JSMag that explored the nuances surrounding JavaScript’s equality operators.
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