Web Developer, Photographer, and TV Professional
I had a recent request to set up some default Advance Custom Fields Flexible Content Fields for new posts. We often use FCF blocks for a lot of our page creation to allow for greater customization and flexibility. While this might seem like limiting some of that flexibility it comes with the benefit of streamlining…
I’ve been working from home for almost a year we finally got around to setting up a better office. We have a three bedroom home and decided to swap the rooms we use as the office and the guest room. After a few years of living in a home you realize the initial decisions you…
Almost a year has passed since I left the TV station and pursued Web Development work full time. Things are going great, but now I’m starting another journey that has led me back to television. I am now the TD for the Sacramento Kings games on NBC Sports California. For now I’m doing mostly the…
2017 Shaped up to be a better reading year. Getting hooked to the Expanse and Red Rising series certainly helped. That and my new job allowed for a long vacation in December to get a lot of reading done. The Well of Ascension – Brandon Sanderson The impossible has been accomplished. The Lord Ruler —…
This year I took on the role of Photographer Wrangler on the organizing committee. That meant I reached out to all the volunteers who said they would help photograph the event and organized a schedule for everyone. We were a little short on volunteers so I ended up shooting both days and I had to…
I’ve been going through some old photo folders and stumbled across some of my favorites from my lomo kick. All pictures taken with the Lomo Fisheye and Holga film cameras.
Today marks my final day working at a television station. It’s been a long journey, with many interviews and jobs that I almost got. I’ve been working on my programming skills for several years. A little more than a month ago I got my first part-time Junior WordPress Developer position that I could do from…
I’ve used a few different options for local development on my laptop over the years. I’m at a transition point in my career and I thought I would take a minute to post on my workflow. I hope it helps others and serves as a reference point for me in the future. For a while…
In my day job working at a local television station I spend time in Master Control monitoring our five stations that we broadcast. Two of these are sub-channels that play out old movies and tv shows from a network feed. The network sends a pulse when its time for our local break to air and…
I didn’t read as many books this year but the ones I did were great. I finished reading the Silo series, started the Mistborn and Expanse series. Here are all the books and their descriptions. Shift – Hugh Howey In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that…
WordPress has many best practices when setting up a new site, one of which is changing the links for the WordPress login pages. When I set up my own site I realized I took some shortcuts and never got around to this.
The blog post version of my WordCamp Sacramento 2016 talk on the WordPress Customizer, covering the basics as well as brand new features as of WordPress 4.6