Articles
These cover a variety of topics. Some of them might software development, productivity, web tech, and popular culture. These are typically referred to as "blog posts", but the term blog has largely fallen out of favor. The term "posts" has largely been recast to refer to short content on social media sites like Facebook or Mastodon. Since my writings are usally longer, I prefer to my writings as articles.
HTML Is For Everyone
Today I presented a talk HTML Is For Everyone at WordCamp Seattle 2015:
Beginner Edition.
PHP Namespaces in WordPress
Namespaces are a feature that was introduced in 2009 as part of PHP 5.3. As of this writing, the current version of PHP is 5.6.13, and the anticipated release of PHP 7.0 is rapidly approaching. So why aren’t WordPress theme and plugin developers using namespaces to organize their code? Our colleagues in other PHP projects … Read more » PHP Namespaces in WordPress
WordCamp Vancouver 2015
This past weekend was fantastic. I attended WordCamp Vancouver, where I spoke for my first time at a conference. I’ve had this idea for a long time, that I could teach people the fundamental ideas of Object-Oriented Programming using robots. This is where I put it to the test. My talk “Robot OOP” includes Wall-E, … Read more » WordCamp Vancouver 2015
Solving my Lumen errors
I’ve been starting to work with Lumen, a micro-framework based on Laravel. I was getting an unexpected error, and I didn’t understand why. Here’s what I found.