As a 100% distributed company with remote work employees across the US (and one in Canada!), WebDevStudios (WDS) relies on Slack as our main internal communication tool. So when Slack goes down, as it did yesterday, our team is directly affected, but...
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Database Management
What Is Database Management? Very simply put, database management is knowing how to access, configure, debug, and manage your database. For some website owners, this isn’t really a concern. Even developers rarely need to poke around with the database, and for many of...
Read More Database ManagementA Jenkins Pipeline for WordPress Projects
If you’ve wanted to dive into Jenkins, chances are that the first thing on your mind is deployments. And if you’re like me and have absolutely no idea what you’re doing, it’s even more likely that you will be completely confused on...
Read More A Jenkins Pipeline for WordPress ProjectsCommunications in a Remote Work Company
As most of you know, WebDevStudios (WDS) is a 100% distributed company. We don’t have a brick and mortar office and we all call part of our homes our office. While this is great for a number of reasons, such as reduced overhead for...
Read More Communications in a Remote Work CompanyGoogle Chrome 63: Goodbye .dev, Hello .test
December 7 is a date which lives in infamy. Chrome 63 was officially released. Okay, so really the attack on Pearl Harbor is what is worth remembering about this date, but let’s talk about why the release of Chrome 63 is important to...
Read More Google Chrome 63: Goodbye .dev, Hello .testRubber Ducking
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...
Read More Rubber DuckingFixing 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. RevertSimple Solutions for Curating Social Media Content
“How do you find content?” That’s one of the top three questions seasoned social media professionals are normally asked. Along with finding the perfect time to post and which social media channels to post on, business owners, entrepreneurs, and those new to digital...
Read More Simple Solutions for Curating Social Media ContentGet 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...
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