Tag: Web Development (Page 2 of 3)

When it comes to making HTTPS available for everyone, the Let’s Encrypt project is great; however, if you’re running a shared host and you have an add-on domain, then there may be a problem with trying to install certificates for each of the sites.

Fortunately, many cPanel installations have an option for installing certificates by Let’s Encrypt.

But what happens when you try to install a certificate, and you see the following error message?

There was a problem installing the certificate. Please contact support for more information.

Depending on your set up, you may never see this message. But if you’re working within a shared hosting environment or you’re trying to configure a certificate for a set up with an add-on domain, then there’s a specific way to resolve this.

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We do a good job of evangelizing the different tools, environments, and ways to tackle problems in our space (that is, within WordPress development), but I often wonder how well we do for actually documenting our practices, procedures, and so on for others.

Sure, some companies open source their practices, and that’s great, but does every company? And should they?

Sometimes, I think people believe that if a company bases itself on open source, then they should have everything out in the open:

• Their software,
• Their practices,
• Their financials,
• And so on.

I don’t agree, but I do think there’s something to be said for documenting your practices within your team as this benefits both you, your teammates, and people you may end up bringing on to a project or on to your team for future work.

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I talk a lot about the significance of having a development environment, a staging environment, and a production environment whenever it comes to managing projects for yourself or your clients. Aside from previous blog posts I’ve written, this was a significant part of my talk at WordCamp Atlanta.

But at the end of the day, the talk about having three separate in which to manage, deploy, test, and release code can seem mundane especially if you’re working with the same codebase for an extended amount of time.

To help fight that boredom, one of the things I’ve always done is come up with a type of themes for my environments and then I’ve named them accordingly.

Case in point: The various environments we’re using for Pressware Plugins are all based in Star Wars (predominately those in The Force Awakens but not limited to that).

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Watershed Moments, defined in multiple places the least of which not being Quora, is defined as:

A “watershed moment” is a point in time that marks an important, often historical change.  The pertinent original usage of “watershed” is to describe a ridge of land separating waters that then flow into two different bodies.

This idea isn’t isolated to web development or software development, though since that’s the area in which many of us work I think it makes for good conversation.

This weekend, I saw my friend Justin (who, if you’re a WordPress developer, should be following) tweet out the following:

Software Developers: What are some “watershed” moments you’ve identified in your own growth?

— Justin Sainton (@JS_Zao) March 26, 2016

And each time I tried to respond using 140 characters, there wasn’t enough space (or tweets) to share my opinion on the topic (and no, this is not my advocating longer tweets ;).

But seriously, I thought it was a great question and the more I thought about it, the more I thought it might serve better as a blog post.

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