At the risk of stating the obvious let me first say that a 1:1 meeting is your chance to have a one on one conversation with your manager or one of your direct reports. This is a high impact meeting that builds the lines of communication that are vital for a successful work relationship. If…
Some years back I realized I had gotten really out of shape. I think everyone knows that feeling at some point or another. My wife wanted to get our oldest daughter into a beginner dance class at the YMCA and that turned into a family membership. So each week my wife and I would work…
At work we use a number of javascript files that hold constants we can import to any of our builders or editors. The structure looks something like: So a fairly large array of objects which makes it easy to work with. With this data structure I needed to export a whole bunch of these objects…
I got into woodworking and general maker-y stuff shortly after my wife and I moved into our first house. Since then I have tackled decks, a big playset for my kids, a couple of desks because I kept messing with my own, and a bunch of other projects I wish I kept better track of….
If you’ve been using create-react-app and tried to build things on your own you might have done/seen/used handleClick = () => { // do thing on click } This comes from the Class properties transform plugin from Babel: https://babeljs.io/docs/plugins/transform-class-properties/ So if you try to build a project on your own you’ll need to include it…
does anyone have a simple little plugin for custom login styles. I dont need a nuclear bomb option, just trying to make a simple thing I saw this question pop up in the Post Status slack earlier and immediately thought “that would be a quick plugin to make using the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate”. So lets…
I posted my rambled thoughts on writing out my slides/talk for WordCamp Miami last week and I thought a after action report would be a nice follow up. I ended up editing my slides a bit after talking with Topher DeRosia who was speaking just before me as part of our mini-workshop. I left out referencing…
[Note: I wrote this in bits and pieces over the past week or so which has caused it to be a bit all over the place 😁 ] On May 31st I will be speaking at WordCamp Miami about the WordPress coding standards, documentation standards, and showing how to apply those when writing your own plugins. Although it isn’t…
Up until the summer of 2014, I had been pretty much working alone for 8 years. With a rocky start in my early twenties, I eventually landed on a stable diet of sub-contracted agency work, graphic design, photography and finally concentrated fully on development. I did things right and incorporated early – which gave me an impressive list of titles,…
One of my goals for 2015 was to get a bit more active on my own site. It has taken me a few months to realize I have not actually been working on this at all. Whoops! So here we are mid April with a fresh start and a happy new year. I have a few…