As someone who’s been an information technology professional for over three decades, I’ve learned a few things along the way. It has been said that
For many of us, swords are special even today, and there’s no doubt that they were special throughout much of human history. Amid all that romanticism, one might be forgiven for forgetting that a sword is simply a tool, made for use in battle. It’s easy to forget sometimes that we developers are making tools that people use to get things done.
Log files are just good practice; not only can they help in development and debugging, but they can act as silent sentinels, watching over your code and helping you find a quick solutions when things go wrong.
Have you ever written plugin code in WordPress that was dependent on another plugin to run? If your code tries to execute before the plugin you require has loaded, obviously, it won’t work. There’s a very simple way to make sure that your plugin doesn’t run until it’s ready.
Development tools like Angular.js, React.js, and Vue.js have transformed front-end website/web application development. It’s actually possible to write whole applications in JavaScript now in a cohesive, management manner. The real question is: should you? The answer is, of course: it depends.
As a developer, you’ve no doubt been asked “can you do [insert user request here]” more times than you can count. The answer is pretty much always “yes.” The tougher question these days is “how” … there are hundreds of ways to get things done these days. In this post, I’d like to share some of the things that shape my decisions about the “how.”
In a previous post, I introduced Wordpress Plugin Boilerplate (hereafter referred to as WPBB for brevity), an attempt at standardization for the way Wordpress plugins are developed.
WordPress uses wp_posts to store post, page, and Custom Post Type (CPT) data the wp_postmeta table for Custom Metabox data. To retrieve this data you have to read for the post plus multiple linked postmeta rows. In this post, we conquer postmeta with subqueries.
With over 50K packages in the WordPress.org plugin repository – all open source – the code within these plugins is all over the place. Into this picture enter the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate. In their own words, the Boilerplate is “a standardized, organized, object-oriented foundation for building high-quality WordPress Plugins.”