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Installing Safari Webdriver for Selenium 2

September 21, 2017Lance Cleveland

Automated testing with Selenium is now your best option for scripted web testing if you have been using Selenium IDE with Firefox for the past few years. As of Firefox…Continue readingInstalling Safari Webdriver for Selenium 2

WordPress 4.8.2 Data Query Woes

September 21, 2017Lance Cleveland

Millions of websites across the Internet were automatically updated to WordPress 4.8.2 yesterday. Thousands of those sites have key components that are no longer working. Many of those…Continue readingWordPress 4.8.2 Data Query Woes

Technology

What (Not) To Do If Your Phone Got Wet

August 29, 2017October 3, 2023Lance Cleveland

From USA Today – https://apple.news/AB301Z-2KScauDPud4WogmQ First things first. Do NOT turn on the phone to check it. Water plus electricity inside the case will try the phone at the speed…Continue readingWhat (Not) To Do If Your Phone Got Wet

Development PHP Programming Languages Technology WordPress

PHP Autoload and Singleton(ish) Model

August 17, 2017Lance Cleveland

Once every couple of years I take a month off from hacking away at the Store Locator Plus products and delve into some personal projects. It is a way to…Continue readingPHP Autoload and Singleton(ish) Model

Development Technology

Adopting GitFlow As My Branching Model

May 23, 2017Lance Cleveland

A couple of months ago I noticed SmartGit, my preferred git management tool, had a GitFlow button in the toolbar when I updated to the latest version. Curious I…Continue readingAdopting GitFlow As My Branching Model

Development Plugin Development Technology WordPress

WordPress As An Application Framework

May 15, 2017February 6, 2023Lance Cleveland

A summary of my notes from my SyntaxCon 2017 “WordPress As An Application Framework” presentation. Constraints Constraints of working in and around the WordPress application. Built-In Overhead Using any…Continue readingWordPress As An Application Framework

Quality Assurance Technology

Selenium IDE Rollups With Arguments

April 18, 2017Lance Cleveland

As I prepare another release of Store Locator Plus with some new features I’ve decided it is time to up my QA-fu with Selenium. I’ve been using Selenium IDE…Continue readingSelenium IDE Rollups With Arguments

Development Technology

Better Release Management For Distributed Teams: GitFlow

March 21, 2017Lance Cleveland

Despite having a number of git interfaces available including a half-decent one built right into phpStorm (my fav for any PHP development ESPECIALLY WordPress) , my go-to tool after 5…Continue readingBetter Release Management For Distributed Teams: GitFlow

Technology

xDebug Remote Debugging With WordPress and phpStorm

March 20, 2017Lance Cleveland

I’ve been using phpStorm to do local debugging of my WordPress app on a VVV box for a few years now. This week I have been running into some challenges…Continue readingxDebug Remote Debugging With WordPress and phpStorm

Plugin Development Technology WordPress

Why Your WordPress Plugin Should Have Almost Nothing In The Main Folder

March 3, 2017Lance Cleveland

As we continue to roll out our Store Locator Plus SaaS service built on top of WordPress as our application foundation we continually refine our plugin, theme, and API architecture. …Continue readingWhy Your WordPress Plugin Should Have Almost Nothing In The Main Folder

Graphic Design Technology

Hacking Snagit PNG Files For Clarity

March 1, 2017Lance Cleveland

While working on some updates to the Store Locator Plus website I ran into a rather annoying issue when it came to the logo for the website. On the documentation…Continue readingHacking Snagit PNG Files For Clarity

AWS gSuite Technology

Save Money With RDS / Get Your gSuite Mail Forwarding

February 27, 2017Lance Cleveland

Two quick hacks I learned today while doing some general “tech life” maintenance. Amazon Web Services – Saving Money The first “hack” is an easy one that I am now…Continue readingSave Money With RDS / Get Your gSuite Mail Forwarding