Enterprise API Development…Navigating The Battlefield

ByTim Nolte January 28, 2017January 29, 2017 Updated onJanuary 29, 2017

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.

Tim Nolte

Technical Architect

A Christ-follower, husband, father, and WordPress Developer with Forum One.

Geek / Programming / WordPress

WordPress Development On A Chromebook, Termux, & Neovim

ByTim Nolte June 13, 2018July 1, 2019 Updated onJuly 1, 2019

So about 6 months ago I decided to make some changes to my personal development environment. I’ve been using a Chromebook as my primary machine since about 2013. I first purchased an Acer C710 for my wife to use but compared to our Macbook Pro it was a frustrating and subpar experience for her, not to mention she was a heavy Adobe Suite user. Since sharing the Macbook Pro was challenging I set out to use the Chromebook as me development machine. Originally I went with the crouton option. It was pretty sweet to have a full Linux environment alongside Chrome OS. I was then running a full LAMP environment with PhpStorm as my IDE. This worked OK, I had performance and stability issues at…

Notes / Programming

WordCamp GR 2017 – Underscores & Me – Frederick Polk

ByTim Nolte August 26, 2017August 26, 2017

Frederick Polk – http://oneblackcrayon.com/ Generate your Underscores Theme: Use a custom build, with the Advanced Options, in order to tailor to your project needs. – https://underscores.me/ Underscores is Pre-built With: Sidebars Custom Logo Comments Featured Images Custom Headers Standard Core Theme Templates (404, comments, archives, header, footer) phpcs Sample Sites: amplifygr.com – Underscores, Visual Composer (Page Builder) bigdataignite.com – Visual Composer, Paid Theme oxx.com – Layer Slider, Visual Composer, Underscores Grand Valley State University, Pew Campus, Grand Rapids, MI

Programming / Work

Lean Software Development and Lean Startup

ByTim Nolte May 5, 2017

Programming

I Ascribe To Dreams Like These…I’m A Developer That Is Certain

ByTim Nolte January 11, 2017January 11, 2017

Friends / Relationships / Work

Friends At Work

ByTim Nolte January 13, 2017January 13, 2017

I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to once again work with one of my close friends. What’s cool is that God brought me to Michigan not only because of my wife, but He placed me in a job where I had the opportunity to build a solid relationship with my co-worker Jon Kay. Since returning to Sprint he has been a huge support to me at work. I’m blessed to work and share life with a close friend.

Notes / Programming

WPGR: Learn about the Developer Tools in your browser

ByTim Nolte February 15, 2018February 16, 2018 Updated onFebruary 16, 2018

Firefox Developer Tools – Topher Inspector – look at HTML/CSS behind a web page Responsive Display Mode Console – look for errors (security/resource loading issues) Different results depending on when you open – loading vs loaded Debugger – for JavaScript Style Editor – for changing CSS Performance – monitoring page load performance Network – Storage – Local browser items, page cache, cookies, etc. Chrome Developer Tools – Brian Shortcuts – keyboard commands to open dev tools (CTRL-OPT-I[Mac OS X]/CTRL-SHIFT-I[ChromeOS]) Docking – SHIFT-CMD-D(Mac OS X) / CTRL-SHIFT-D(Chrome OS) Elements (inspector) Styles – Filter allows for viewing specific CSS states (i.e. :hover) Add specific element styles Color Swatch – has a color picker, can save swatches Computed Styles View a visual representation of spacing See the CSS that…