Google dropped a bombshell on most maps users, including many of the people using the Store Locator Plus WordPress plugin — they now require ALL SITES to register for an…Continue readingGeocoding With US Census Bureau
Businesses have been hiring programmers for decades now. Back in the 70s it was something only Fortune 100 companies did. Today everyone from your local cafe to full-fledged software…Continue readingHow To Hire A Programmer
While updating an inherited web project, I’ve been slowly introducing some well-defined libraries to the mix. My current favorite being Vuetify — designed to add some decent style standards to…Continue readingVuetify 12-Point Grid Layouts
Digging into Cypress.IO in a sprint to replace my almost-completely-useless stack of Selenium IDE tests for Store Locator Plus, I’ve run into some issues that seem to go beyond my lack…Continue readingCypress.IO Shortcomings — Pattern or Die
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
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
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
When using a private update service for premium WordPress plugins, some version tests get left behind leaving users with a half-updated plugin stack. When operating a freemium model, like…Continue readingWordPress wp_update_plugins Deep Dive
WordPress LOVES backwards compatibility as can be witnessed by the minimum-allowed WordPress PHP version remaining at 5.2.4 a decade after its end-of-life date. It may be one of the reasons they…Continue readingShould The WordPress PHP Version Be Updated?
