Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development

Category: Resources (Page 8 of 60)

A summary of useful links, applications, and tools that I find around the Internet.

Versions App For WordPress Plugins

Versions App is one of those Subversion clients that’s been around for years. In fact, when I moved to Mac, it might have been the first one I tried.

Versions App For WordPress Plugins

I liked it, too. It did what I needed it to do, it did it well, and it was simple. And that last part, simplicity, is something that I really want out of software these days.

Maybe I’m getting old. Or maybe I’m developing better taste. I’m going to go with the latter one for this.

Anyway, for some time I ended up using a slightly more advanced client that had a wider range of features, and that did some really good stuff as far as Subversion is concerned. But over time, I’ve migrated further and further away from Subversion.

And in doing so, I’ve begun to re-evaluate my tools (as one should do from time-to-time).

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Tab Management in Chrome with Toby

Tab management is one of those problems that’s kind of funny.

Remember back in the day when we had browsers and we opened multiple windows so we could track all of the various sites on which we were browsing or on which we were working or whatever?

IE6

The browser everyone loved to hate.

Yeah. Those days.

Then remember when Firefox came along (or one of the open source alternatives), it was kind of nice to be able to install an extension or add-on that added tab management.

But now we’ve just kind of increased the problem exponentially. At least I have. Because I have multiple windows each with multiple tabs.

And yeah, the Merge Windows extension is nice because it helps bring everything together. But then we’ve gotta deal with saving our session (which there are some nice extensions for that) or keeping track of where we were.

That’s where tab management starts to get a little bit rougher.

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Promoting WordPress Products Easily

When it comes to promoting WordPress products, or products in general, is not my strong suit. You can ask any number of friends I’ve talked to about branding, marketing, and other things that go into it.

That’s okay, though.

I mean, that’s why we have these kinds of people in our lives right? We treat them as mentors, leverage their experience. And we opt to do the same for others when we’re approached, too.

Although I don’t know much about the above I do know about writing and sharing your content via Twitter to help it reach your followers (and hopefully their followers and their followers followers).

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WordPress Deals for Black Friday 2016

This is that day of the year where everyone is offering deals for different products and services at a discount. It’s a pretty sweet deal, isn’t it?

It’s also one of those times where a lot of people try to build up affiliate links to make some extra cash along with promoting said products and services. I don’t necessarily think there’s anything wrong with that, but it’s not my style.

So I thought I’d try something new for this Black Friday: Earlier this week, I asked anyone and everyone I knew to share the sales they had going on, so I’ve listed what I’ve found below.

None of the links are affiliate links – they are just responses (or tweets) or emails I’ve received over the past week.

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A Few Spotify Playlists for Work

A few weeks ago, I was talking with some others about the types of Spotify playlists we listen to whenever we’re working primarily to help us focus and get things done. (And no, I’ve nothing against Apple Music, fanboys, I pay for it, too so ease up. ).

Spotify Playlists for Work, Volume 1

I forgot to ‘heart’ or ‘like’ or ‘star’ or whatever Twitter is calling is currently calling the act of bookmarking a tweet, but I still thought it was a neat idea to list out some of the things we all listen to whenever we’re writing code, writing words, or taking a break.

So here’s what I’ve been listening to lately.

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