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Web App Testing, Selenium IDE Is Back

December 21, 2018Lance Cleveland

After a year-long hiatus, one of my favorite web app testing tools is back. It is nice to have Selenium IDE back as a viable option. Yes, it is similar…Continue readingWeb App Testing, Selenium IDE Is Back

WordPress Continues To Break Things In The Name Of Security

December 18, 2018Lance Cleveland

In what has become a nearly annual tradition, WordPress has released yet another update that broke thousands of plugins across the Internet. As usual, they claim this is in…Continue readingWordPress Continues To Break Things In The Name Of Security

WordPress

Should I Update To WordPress 5

December 10, 2018Lance Cleveland

Should you update to WordPress 5? This is a question that has been asked thousands of times in the past week. I have been asked at least a dozen…Continue readingShould I Update To WordPress 5

Development JavaScript

Vue Intro Article

November 21, 2018Lance Cleveland

A quick intro to Vue. If you are a jQuery fan I highly recommend looking into adding Vue to your developer toolbox. www.telerik.com/blogs/vue-for-jquery-developers

Development Technology

Using Bitbucket Pipelines To Deploy to AWS EC2

October 4, 2018Lance Cleveland

This is not an in-depth article — have too much going on these days for that. It is a more a short-hand techie crib sheet of how I got a…Continue readingUsing Bitbucket Pipelines To Deploy to AWS EC2

Technology

Microsoft Teams Wiki Export

September 6, 2018Lance Cleveland

Microsoft Teams is a mixed blessing. Like most Microsoft products it starts off with a great idea, does some of it exceptionally well and the rest of it is half-baked. …Continue readingMicrosoft Teams Wiki Export

AWS

Alibaba An AWS Threat? Not Quite

August 30, 2018Lance Cleveland

A recent Seeking Alpha article proposes the theory that Alibaba could threaten Amazon’s AWS cloud services. Amazon has been my best investment by far. The article has some great information…Continue readingAlibaba An AWS Threat? Not Quite

JavaScript Plugin Development Programming Programming Languages Technology WordPress

Vue – JavaScript Library Outside Google/Facebook Control

August 23, 2018Lance Cleveland

Vue is running on several projects to create a better admin user experience. Vuetify is layered on top and baked into WordPress themes and plugins. You will need to add…Continue readingVue – JavaScript Library Outside Google/Facebook Control

AWS Security Technology

Install A Name.com SSL Cert On Amazon Linux

August 21, 2018Lance Cleveland

Get Your Certificate Signing Request (CSR) From Amazon Linux: cd /etc/ssl openssl req -new -key vim <domain>.<tld>.key -out <domain>.<tld>.csr Buy Your Certificate From Name.com purchase a cert for either a…Continue readingInstall A Name.com SSL Cert On Amazon Linux

Development PHP

PHP __set() Magic Method Conundrum

August 1, 2018Lance Cleveland

I am completely baffled by this one and hope one of my techie friends can help. I’m using a PHP class with magic methods to set and get the properties…Continue readingPHP __set() Magic Method Conundrum

Development Technology

IEEE Top Programming Languages

August 1, 2018Lance Cleveland

Python, C and C++ top the list. Surprising to see PHP higher on the list than JavaScript. spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/innovation/the-2018-top-programming-languages

Programming WordPress

WordPress Needs To Abandon PHP 5.2 Compatibility

July 17, 2018Lance Cleveland

As PHP continues its march into the future with improved support for objects, better memory management, and notable performance boosts WordPress seems to be dead-set in sticking to the “must…Continue readingWordPress Needs To Abandon PHP 5.2 Compatibility