Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development
A summary of useful links, applications, and tools that I find around the Internet.
As I’ve shared in the last few articles for this category, I started sharing stuff on Twitter pretty regularly. But I don’t that much more either. So, given that I’ve started keeping a list of things in Apple Notes that I find useful, I thought I might as well return to form and share them here.
They will probably have a much longer shelf-life and maybe reach more people between subscribers and tweeting out a link to the post.
Continue readingAs I’ve shared in the last few articles for this category, I started sharing stuff on Twitter pretty regularly. But I don’t that much more either. So, given that I’ve started keeping a list of things in Apple Notes that I find useful, I thought I might as well return to form and share them here.
They will probably have a much longer shelf-life and maybe reach more people between subscribers and tweeting out a link to the post.
Continue readingNote long ago, I started sharing stuff on Twitter pretty regularly. But I don’t that much more either. So, given that I’ve started keeping a list of things in Apple Notes that I find useful, I thought I might as well return to form and share them here.
They will probably have a much longer shelf-life and maybe reach more people between subscribers and tweeting out a link to the post.
Continue readingYears ago (maybe a decade – or more, yikes 😬) I used to post links to resources that I found online that I found interesting or useful for other people that were designers, developers, or anyone who was interested in doing something on the web in-general. Case in point, here’s a post from 2010.
A broad umbrella, I know.
And then I started sharing stuff on Twitter pretty regularly. But I don’t that much more either. So, given that I’ve started keeping a list of things in Apple Notes that I find useful, I thought I might as well return to form and share them here.
They will probably have a much longer shelf-life and maybe reach more people between subscribers and tweeting out a link to the post.
Continue readingOne of the more challenging aspects of working with WordPress is working the fragmented nature of documentation. And I don’t necessarily mean the Codex nor do I mean the Developer Resources.
But I mean the fact that there’s a ton of information spread across blogs (mine not exempt), subreddits, questions and answers on Stack Exchange, and shares via Twitter, and so on.
I’m not making a case that this is inherently bad or good but I am making the case that when given the opportunity to provide a central repository of information for a feature, set of APIs, or tools that it can be extremely helpful especially if it’s written an maintained by the author of something like one of the aforementioned issues.
Case in point: WP-CLI and Alain Schlesser.
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