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WordPress US 2019 – Design Systems: Crafting For Crafters – Jon Quach
Jon Quach – https://jonquach.com/ Design Systems are important but can be complicated and hard to understand. What Are Design Systems? They are about process. They make up the interfaces and designs of a product. They help answer many design and development questions. What Are The Challenges of Design? There can be a breakdown of handoff between design and development. Things don’t always end up the way they were intended. No documentation. Nobody knows how developer created things. It’s not because people are bad at their jobs or don’t care. Lacking the understanding of how user interfaces and experience should work together. How Do You Create A Design System? You create a Design System to empower the team building the product. End users don’t care about…
WordCamp US 2019 – Just Enough React for WordPress – Shannon Smith
New Block Editor Discover the Possibilities Block templates Blocks instead of custom fields, shortcodes, etc How Does the New Block Editor Work? Uses React, JavaScript/JSX Blocks are like plugins There is a Core Layer & Editorial Layer React abstraction is built-in Cool Stuff Blocks can be reusable Backend Workflow-only blocks Block level locking – you can remove blocks that are not needed. React Uses JSON literals It’s in the HTML but doesn’t negatively affect the HTML Templates You can create block templates Can be assigned to existing post types You can have nested templates Compatibility Shortcodes Will continue to work as before but contained within a block Custom Post Types Metaboxes Can be converted to blocks Can be used in the block editor Themes You…
WordCamp GR 2017 – Development With Material Design – Matt Christensen
Matt Christensen – https://www.mattchristensen.net/ History Announced 2014 2015 Most Google apps use it Intended for Android Focused on Native Mobile, web was an afterthought What Is It? – https://material.io/ A metaphor – think paper Uniting Style – look the same everywhere Design as a physical medium Paper and Ink Seams & Edges Motion has meaning Web Features – https://getmdl.io/components/ Cards – base component (could be used as a means to layout “table” data) Drawers Snackbar – nice feedback component, can hide automatically Tables Out of the box there is styling but not responsive jQuery Alternative – https://datatables.net/ Frameworks MDL (Material Design) Materialize – http://materializecss.com/ (stay away from Materialize WP, not much development) MDLWP – http://mdlwp.com/ (most features in commercial) Bootstrap Material Design – http://fezvrasta.github.io/bootstrap-material-design/ How Do You Design? What are you…
WordCamp GR 2017 – Elementary, My Dear Coder – Nicole Paschen Caylor
Nicole Paschen Caylor – https://github.com/nicolepaschen Code.org The Hour of Code Kodable – paid program, self-guided game Tynker – tynker.com Code Spark Academy Computer Science Curriculum Uses drag-n-drop code blocks Points out more efficient ways of accomplishing task ScratchJr – found on PBS Kids as well(provides more familiar characters) Scratch – for older kids Tips for Success Site with your child Explain things to your child as you go along Resources: Lego Mindstorms Hello World – book on Python programming CS Unplugged – free, downloadable, offline, ages 9+ Grand Valley State University, Pew Campus, Grand Rapids, MI
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My 1st Group Run
Had an awesome time this morning running with the HWP Daybreak Team. Enjoyed running with and getting to know Todd Sadler. [endomondowp type=’workout’ workout_id=’861942037′ ] Bauer, Michigan, United States of America
WordCamp US 2019 – Code Like A Writer – Alex Ball
Writing Principles Punctuation Saves Lives Separate your metaphors separate your concerns making good comments Coding Principles Syntax Form – code formatting Spellcheck – code linting DRY – Don’t repeat yourself Redundant words just take up time Code is Poetry Being creative Clean and concise Doing as much as it can with as little as possible In Stories Someone Usually Dies in the End In AJAX function wp_die() at the end.