Git tracks files by where they are in the directory structure. This creates unintended commits and losses of file history when renaming directories. There are two good solutions I’ve found for these issues, depending on the circumstances.
Improving Client Relationships By Communicating Solely Via Slack!!!!
Communication is the fuel that powers relationships. Ease of access to the right information makes communication a stronger, more powerful fuel for the relationship. That’s why I put a lot of thought into what I use for communication and organization, and choose Slack.
Using Composer To Increase Your WordPress Development Powers!!!!
Composer is an important tool that is not only easy to use, but also leads to increased code reusability, a reduction in copypasta errors, encourages best practices like using namespacing and autoloaders, and can aid in deployments.
WordPress, Acomplishments and HoloTree!!!!
Over the last 16 or so months that I’ve worked in the WordPress ecosystem full time I’ve reached a lot of important milestones. In the last few weeks, I’ve achived some important milestones on the project that actually brought me here: HoloTree. Today, HoloTree is a team decision making system, and is in private beta, with its first few users.
WordPress Tallahassee Meetup: Turning WordPress Sites Into Web & Mobile Apps!!!!
For the second meeting of the Tallahassee WordPress Meetup I am presenting on solutions for turning WordPress sites into mobile apps and using WordPress as the back-end for a web and/or mobile app. This is a subject that I’ve thought a lot about as I work with the WordPress REST API, and my own projects.
New bbPress Slack Integration!!!!
Like a lot of WordPress plugins, at Pods we use bbPress for our support forums. Like a growing number of WordPress developers, we use Slack for both our support, development and internal chat. We’ve got Asana and GitHub integrations, all routed to the right channels. The one thing we didn’t have was updates from our bbPress support forums in our support channel. So I wrote one.
Using The New WordPress REST API: Tally Code Camp 2014!!!!
Slides from my presentation at Tallahassee Code Camp 2014, on the WordPress REST API (WP-API,) some links and frequently asked questions about the API and a list of what I’ve made with it so far.
Using Dropbox To Keep VVV In Sync on Multiple Computers!!!!
I’ve been plotting for a while now to get a kick-ass desktop for development. Since I work once or twice a week at a co-working space and travel for WordCamps or to visit family fairly regularly, I’m going to need to keep my laptop for those situations. Thanks to Dropbox and Scott Kingsley Clark, it’s actually really easy to keep your WordPress VVV-based development environment in sync across multiple computers
Learning PHP Through WordPress Development: Object Oriented Programming!!!!
This post is not a tutorial on learning OPP. Instead a collection of posts and series on learning object-oriented PHP for WordPress development, in the order I would recommend reading them. Think it as the reading list for a course on OOP that I really should teach one day.
WordCamp Milwaukee: Co-Creating and Co-Designing Support Systems That Strengthen Your WordPress Business!!!!
My WordCamp Milwaukee presentation on Co-Creating and Co-Designing Support Systems That Strengthen Your WordPress Business. In this presentation I show how to apply the principles of co-design and co-creation to create better support systems for WordPress products and services.