As mentioned in our end of year post, one of our goals for 2015 was to up our content game–and up it we did. Earlier in the year, I talked about how we have been using a collaborative approach to create content...
Read More Top 15 WebDevStudios Posts Published in 2015Category: Development
Unexpected Practical Applications of Programming Skills
Years ago, I worked in the electronics department of the Kmart in the city where I grew up. I was a young fresh teenager attending college for both Computer Science and Music Theory. Each day I interacted with dozens of customers, coworkers,...
Read More Unexpected Practical Applications of Programming SkillsHelpful Packages for Atom Editor
It has been a few months since I’ve transitioned from using Panic’s Coda 2 to using Github’s Atom editor as my main application for working with code. I tried switching to Sublime Text a few times, and never successfully gave it a...
Read More Helpful Packages for Atom EditorWebDevStudios Dances the Calypso
Recently, Automattic (the company behind WordPress.com) released a pure JavaScript version of their website hosting and creation service in the form of a formidable desktop app called Calypso. The new WordPress.com codebase moves WordPress away from MySQL and PHP. It’s built entirely in JavaScript, and...
Read More WebDevStudios Dances the CalypsoWhy Everyone Should Learn a Little Bit of Code
In my freelance days, I remember sitting on the worn leather seats of my Panera office, listening to the cries of small business owners tell me about how much money they had wasted on the programmers before me. Like a bad couples...
Read More Why Everyone Should Learn a Little Bit of CodeGetting Started with WordPress Hooks
It is well-known that WordPress is one of the most popular Content Management Systems available for building and maintaining a website. While a big part of that success is due to the ease-of-use, another big part of that is the wide variety of...
Read More Getting Started with WordPress HooksWriting Clean(er) JavaScript
JavaScript, like many programming languages, has some great ways to compartmentalize and structure code to make it more maintainable, more readable, and more reliable. This post will cover two things that can help developers to organize their code: namespacing and singletons.
Read More Writing Clean(er) JavaScriptRecent Changes to generator-plugin-wp
I last went over the features of generator-plugin-wp in May and a lot has changed since then! There are three more sub-generators (and more on the way), the JavaScript workflow is improved, PHPUnit tests are built in for the main plugin generator and all...
Read More Recent Changes to generator-plugin-wpSolving the Responsive Images Problem with WordPress Responsive Images
The quest for a beautiful, responsive website is ever-present. As front-end developers, we know the tricks of the trade when it comes to making all of those fancy little features work from desktop to mobile. Whether it’s degrading hover-based actions gracefully or...
Read More Solving the Responsive Images Problem with WordPress Responsive Images