One of my favorite things to do as a developer is rubber ducking with other devs. If you aren’t familiar with rubber ducking, the term comes from the book The Pragmatic Programmer in which a dev would explain, line by line, their...
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Fixing Things: Git Reset vs. Revert
Here at WebDevStudios (WDS) we use a GitFlow-like process during development. The branch and merge strategy allows for multiple developers to work on a multitude of various features concurrently. In practice, it allows us to have greater development speed and product stability with...
Read More Fixing Things: Git Reset vs. RevertWhat Programming Language Should Aspiring Developers Learn First?
TL;DR? JavaScript is eating the world, often with PHP by its side. To give some background, my programming introductions went something like: 1986 – Logo on an Apple IIe 1994 – Programming on a Texas Instruments TI-81 graphing calculator 1995 – BASIC,...
Read More What Programming Language Should Aspiring Developers Learn First?Using Elasticsearch on Your Local Dev Environment
Using Elasticsearch (ES) on your site can help boost performance, especially with complex search setups. When using Elasticsearch on your local development environment, it can be tricky, because the names of indices are based on URL and can be the same as...
Read More Using Elasticsearch on Your Local Dev EnvironmentGet Started with Git Command Line
For many, the command line is a scary place where the only way to interact with your computer is to write a bunch of cryptic commands. This often leads us, as developers, especially newbie devs, to look for a better GUI-centric option. But...
Read More Get Started with Git Command LineEvolution of CSS: Class Naming Methodologies
This is Part II of a series called “Evolution of CSS”. Evolution of CSS: Becoming a CSS Composer Evolution of CSS: Class Naming Methodologies Evolution of CSS: Overview of Tachyons Perhaps you’ve heard this one before? There are only two hard things in...
Read More Evolution of CSS: Class Naming MethodologiesRebuilding the Feature 5 Grid to Create More Than a Comeback
WebDevStudios recently completed a challenging, yet very satisfying, WordPress project for The Comeback, a popular sports fan website. Among many duties, our team was tasked with rebuilding the Feature 5 grid functionality and extending it to support multiple grids, archive pages, and update styling. These...
Read More Rebuilding the Feature 5 Grid to Create More Than a ComebackEvolution of CSS: Becoming a CSS Composer
I have been coding CSS almost daily for over 10 years. I don’t say that to try and establish supremacy, but merely to give some context to the subsequent observations. There are quite a few days I still feel more like a...
Read More Evolution of CSS: Becoming a CSS ComposerTim Tam Launched in the US (and We Helped)
Australia’s favorite biscuit (remember, it’s not a cookie) Tim Tam has hit the US, and we’re proud to say that WebDevStudios (WDS) built the website for it. ItsNotACookie.com launched on January 17, and since then, our team can’t stop talking about it. Neither...
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