Category: Notes (Page 49 of 50)

I’ve been doing some work with the SharpBox Libraries for cloud-based programming and kept coming up with build errors within Visual Studio.

Specifically, I had added the libraries as references in my project but the compilation process kept failing on all references to the SharpBox AppLimit namespace. Continue reading

If you wish to register WordPress JavaScript and/or stylesheet dependencies, the API provides functions that make this easy – it’s straightforward both for JavaScript and for stylesheets.

Whenever you’re doing any kind of work in which you find yourself making frequent calls to these functions, it may help to include a helper function to make it a bit easier.

Here’s an example function that I’ve used in a few of my projects:

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For the most part, I’ve been doing all of my development on SlideNote out of a git repository located in an arbitrary directory on my hard drive.

Recently, I needed to move several projects to another location and since I had several changes that I’d yet to commit, I wanted to move the repository while keeping all of the changes intact.

Here’s how to do it using git’s bundle command:

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For sometime now, I’ve been a big fan of Bob Martin. I’ve found a number of his ideas and approach to software development interesting and actually practical so much so that I wish they’d present some of his ideas in modern computer science programs.

I recently had the opportunity to hear him speak about agile software development, clean code, and apprenticeship. I really enjoyed it.

Here’s a short excerpt from his talk specifically on apprenticeship:

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I’ve been working on a small application that interfaces with the Flickr API in order to dynamically retrieve a stream of photos from a user’s Flickr feed.

In order to retrieve the stream, the user’s ID is required; however, most users are familiar with their Flickr username, not their ID. Services such as IDGettr can be a big help in looking up a user’s ID, but I wanted to roll something into the application that eliminated the need for a third-party service.

Assuming that you have a Flickr API Key, retrieving the user ID based on the username is easy enough.
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