This was the inaugural year of Wordcamp Sacramento. This seemed fitting as it was also my first Wordcamp to attend.
Category: Coding
Color Bars on Codepen
I created HD Color Bars on Codepen today at work.
Relational Database in CodeIgniter
My description of a recent project that needed to be refactored to read/write data in a relational database.
Mediawiki API – Connecting a WebApp to the Mediawiki Database
My process for connecting to a Mediawiki api via jQuery and returning the results to use in another application.
Graphviz: A Better Way to Create Flow Charts
A while back I wrote about the wiki that I set up for the television station that I work at. Using the mediawiki software I setup the wiki on an intranet webserver to handle our troubleshooting and technical guides as well as a directory of our equipment. We’ve made good progress over the two years…
My path to learning Javascript
I’ve jumped around to a bunch of programming languages and I decided both through my own frustrations and the suggestions of my peers that I need to hone in on one language. It should be one that you intend to use in my future projects and a core language that sees lots of use in…
My Steam Achievements Plugin is Officially Launched
After realizing that my achievements plugin hosting request at WordPress.org was not the final step in the process I successfully went through the steps to push my plugin to the repository. https://wordpress.org/plugins/steam-achievements/ I kept checking back and searching for the plugin but it was taking forever to be added. I then did a little more…
Intro to the WordPress JSON REST API
Last night I attended my local WordPress Meetup with the topic of the WordPress JSON REST API. I was really excited to attend because the whole idea of a REST API is something I know about, I just don’t really know what it does and what the purpose of it is. All that has changed.…
WordPress Plugin – Team Fortress 2 Achievements
One of the fun things with most Steam games are the achievements that you can earn while playing. Some are silly, some ridiculously difficult and all are very satisfying when you hear the achievement sound fx in the middle of a match. Some people will “farm” these achievements on an idle sever but I always…
Just Build Websites
I often fall into a pattern when I’m learning new things. I get really excited and want to learn everything. Then I learn about a related topic, and shift all focus to the new thing. This makes me somewhat knowledgeable in a lot of things, but never really great at one thing. I’ve always heard…
A Designers Guide To WordPress
I’ve been attending the Sacramento WordPress Meetup Group for the past few months and I’ve enjoyed discussions talking about Genesis, Responsive Styling, and most recently how to design for WordPress. For this most recent talk we had a guest speaker from the Bay Area, James Hipkin, from Red8 Interactive. Mr Hipkin mentioned a couple times…
Just Do It
I’m one month down in my twelve month project (or at least I will be by the end of this post) and I’m moderately happy with my success. I’ve certainly written a good bit but I’m sure each post is unorganized and could be better edited. This is mostly due to the fact that I…