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Being A Developer For Life…Can I Keep It Up?
photo credit: LeeroyBy now you’ve probably seen the viral clip of a father getting interrupted by his children while giving a live interview on BBC. Working parents everywhere, especially remote workers, could identify with the humorous embarrassment of the situation. Even those who have had pets interrupt Skype calls know the feeling. You want to… via Hacker News Question: Developers with kids, how do you skill up? — WordPress Tavern I’ve had many discussions with one of my good friends and fellow developers on this very subject. The key is keeping it all in balance and managing the priorities. It is tough sometimes, and I have to realize that I can’t do it all, but I also have to keep in mind that I can accomplish…
Doing It Right…Code Commits
As a developer there are industry standards and expectations that should be followed, especially in the open source world. Aaron Jorbin has got this spot on.
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The Road Of Lifelong Learning To Be A Better Developer – Using Git Better
As a developer and, in some areas, a perfectionist I’m always after better #development practices when working collaboratively. An I personally find value in the #commit history. As a #git user I appreciate detailed case from @ecampidoglio on the proper way to keep a clean commit history. The Case for Pull Rebase
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Talking WPRig and Theming in the Gutenberg Era with Morten Rand-Hendricksen
This month we’re taking a look at the WPRig WordPress framework from its developer Morten Rand-Hendricksen. This will be a live remote presentation with Q&A as time allows. If you want to learn more ahead of the meetup, follow this link https://wprig.io/ “Pave the cowpath” – WordPress could be the thing that paves the cowpath for the modern web, but it isn’t. Underscores used to be the starting theme do build off of, but there was no real standard, and modern, build process. Build Process Modern JavaScript Modern CSS (customer properties, etc) WordPress Coding Standards Code Linting for PHP, JS, CSS Automatic internationalization Code and asset optimization Starter Theme Accessible Modern best-practices Styled out of the box Minimum required files Optional templates Progressive features Gutenberg New…
WordCamp GR 2017 – Computers <3 Structured Data – Steve Grunwell
Steve Grunwell – https://stevegrunwell.com/ https://github.com/stevegrunwell/structured-data/blob/master/README.md What is Structured Data? Standards to help computers to understand our content. Content is for humans. Structured data is for machines. Structured Data Structured data is all about providing context itemtype/itemprop/content HTML/XML HyperText and eXtensible Markup Language Meant to convey information in a meaningful way Generic layout RSS An extension of XML for content sydication Introduced structure: post titles, content, dates Standardized and can be validated Microformats & Dublin Core Competing standards for rich data Dublin Core is a specific set of standards, but designed to be limited in scope Uses meta tags Microformats – uses class names Resource Description Framework (RDF) A specification for modeling metadata New attributes Opengraph Facebook’s social graph Used to create rich media when sharing content…
Enterprise API Development…Navigating The Battlefield
Right now at work I’m the lead on a project to establish a new vendor API. Unfortunately there were decisions made on key specifications of how the API was to be developed before it was handed to me. Where I work there is a lot of legacy standards and so it’s challenging to introduce new technologies as a standard. I do see that there is a constant struggle between what APIs are needed internally versus externally, for B2B integrations. I’m always looking to try to balance this out whenever I can.