I have a Facebook friend who is an elementary school teacher. One of their students is an aspiring web designer, and has some questions for me to answer. Does a website usually succeed? A website has to be made with a goal in mind before anything can be described as successful or not. The goal …
Category Archives: Programming
I wrote a thing for work, about WooCommerce & mobile apps
http://zeek.com/using-the-woocommerce-api-in-mobile-development/
Jumping on the gulp.js bandwagon
For funzies and learnzies, I reworked my Normalize.css Sass fork to use gulp.js instead of the iconoclastic mix of shell scripts and a Makefile. I had been going with my batches of shell scripts because I value auditability in what I use, and to keep a low overhead of 3rd-party dependencies. Every additional programming language …
Missing Documentation
I had to help a client with a WooCommerce problem with product catalog theme overrides. I have some things to add to their page on Template Structure + overriding templates via a theme: The resulting rendered theme files loaded by default are not the same as what would be loaded if you copy over the …
Poor Artisans Always Blame Their Tools
Then there’s PHP: https://www.flickr.com/photos/raindrift/7095238893/in/set-72157629492908038
Presentations Updated
I gave a presentation today for the local WordPress Meetup group on PHP Quality Assurance tools, named “Automagical Code Checking“. My Presentations page has been updated too.
New Presentation Up
I have updated my Presentations page with what amounts to a crash course in reading PHP for people who want to make WordPress themes. And a gripe, I shot myself in the foot in trying to get KDE to mirror displays, ending up turning both off when an external monitor is plugged in. Much thanks to …
Keep CSS in sync with SASS with Git
I made this shell script for use as a post-merge hook in Git that I’d like to share. Assumptions: You are using the SCSS flavor of SASS; even if you don’t have SASS installed on the system you’re using this on, you have it and compass installed on a machine you have SSH access to. …
WP Watercooler #49: Speeding up WordPress
I did a thing Monday morning: I get to talk about Google’s mod_pagespeed on WP Watercooler
Neat Little Domain Name Service Trick
If you own your own domain, and you resort to local hosts file trickery to get a test version running on your localhost, you don’t have to do that anymore. If you own example.com, and use dev.example.com as your localhost version of the site, you can create a CNAME entry for the dev subdomain that …