I’ve written articles on Jetpack Autoupdate before — you’ll find some of them in the Jetpack blog. For many neglected sites autoupdate of plugins is a good idea. Plugins…Continue readingWhy Jetpack Autoupdate Is A Bad Idea
If you are running your own Linux server — an AWS EC2 instance, perhaps, you may want to check that your etc daemon I’d not accessible. Read this ARS Technica…Continue readingRunning A Linux Server? Check etcd
After discussing projects over the past week, one of the guys at Automattic brought up CypressIO. If you’ve been following the recent posts on Lance.Bio you know that the path…Continue readingCypressIO Simplifies Web App Testing
A recent discussion with a tech guru at Automattic posed a great question — how does JavaScript asynchronous processing work on a single-threaded app? Great question, but before I found…Continue readingOptimizing JavaScript for Chrome
An unusually short article, for me, on basic WordPress plugin loader tricks. Basic setup Name the “loader” php file the same as the plugin directory. Text Domain must match the…Continue readingWordPress Plugin Loader Tricks
Selenium IDE was a great way to handle automated web app testing like the Store Locator Plus plugins for WordPress. Selenium IDE is a simple script recorder and playback…Continue readingAutomated Web App Testing With phpStorm
I have multiple sites using Jetpack services at various levels from the Free through the Premium service. Some sites are playing nicely with the Jetpack services at WordPress.com but…Continue readingThe Inner Workings of Jetpack
