Most of the comments I get on this site have to do with someone trying something I’ve written about that isn’t working for them. In most cases, error messages can be your friends since they can point to the particular place your script failed and give you additional insight into why it failed. This post […]
Read MoreMost of what I write about on the site exists to save someone else from having to learn the painful lessons I’ve spent time, energy, or emotion solving. This is one of those times where I’m sharing something uber useful that many people familiar with PHP may already know. As JavaScript has evolved, one of […]
Read MoreOver the last several years I’ve had the opportunity to do a lot more work within the WordPress ecosystem here at VCU. Writing themes and plugins for WordPress was what really got me started in web development, but after years of working in other frameworks like Node/Express and .NET MVC/C#, a lot of WordPress architectural […]
Read MoreAs I frequently do, I’ve been taking a deep dive over the last few weeks into a very cool intersection between the WordPress and AWS ecosystems all in pursuit of the most scalable and turn key database structure for WordPress multisite. In this post, I’ll share some of the results of my research and walkthrough […]
Read MoreWe’ve been dealing with some decently complex system-level issues for awhile on Rampages. In an effort to track them down to the source, I’ve been digging through lots of log files. While we still don’t fully understand what is happening yet, I’m learning a lot more about sys admin type tools for tracking bugs across […]
Read MoreThis will be a short post, but I felt it necessary to do since I had to deal with this is a non-standard way given my situation. I decided to play around with WP CLI to scaffold out the theme for a project that we are starting, but ran into a few configuration issues. It […]
Read MoreIn this quick tutorial, we’re going to build a simple little menu add-on for Google Docs that lets you translate text into another language. Some of this functionality may be baked into Google Docs at this point, but this should be a good tutorial that wraps together a few different services and methods of augmenting […]
Read MoreOne of the hardest things to do as a developer is to resist the urge to add additional complexity where it does not add value to the overall solution. As technologists, we tend to think this stuff is cool, and so sometimes we fall victim to this trap. Let me illustrate with a recent example. […]
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