Author: Jeffrey de Wit

  • #WCORL – Designing a process that gets things done

    Speaker: Karena Kreger Several facets to establishing a system for repeatable tasks. These are my notes on this talk.

  • #WCORL – Write Better Documentation

    Speaker: Jeff Matson Why write documentation, and how do you get the most out of it? These are my notes for this talk.

  • #WCORL – Designing for development, the value of collaborative design

    Speaker: Michelle Schulp My notes for the talk on the collaborative workflow. Benefits and examples.

  • #WCORL – WordPress JSON REST API

    Speaker: Ivan Lopez My notes for the talk on the WordPress REST API, what it can do and how to use it.

  • Test for potential accessibility issues

    Are you interested in improving your website’s accessibility, but not sure where to start? There’s tools out there that will help you get started! The tool that we use for this very purpose is “WAVE”. You can use their online verification tool or download their toolbar for Chrome or Firefox. This tool will not only…

  • Accessible content in WordPress

    Accessibility is not just for developers. It is probably much more important when you’re a content manager/webmaster/marketing associate. You’re constantly writing content in WordPress long after a developer is done with the website and so it’s important to know how to make use some of the tips described here while you’re doing it. So how…

  • Dealing with White Screens of DOOM in WordPress

    Dealing with White Screens of DOOM in WordPress

    We’ve all been there. Happily writing our PHP for some template or another. But then you save your file and refresh the page and…the screen stays completely white. So why does this happen? Most likely you’ve made a syntax error somewhere. Like, say, forgetting a semi-colon or curly bracket. Another reason is that you’ve reached…

  • Updating Ubuntu 12.10 to 14.04 on Digital Ocean

    Today I had set out to set up automatic deployment for my theme on this server using git. However, I hit a bump in the road when actually trying to install git: The old quantal repositories have been moved and so it wasn’t actually able to find the appropriate git package to install. Being as…

  • My first contribution to WordPress

    My first contribution to WordPress

    Lately I’ve been trying to get more active in the community of Orlando developers. Specifically for WordPress, since that’s what we’re using the most at Highforge. I’ve been attending WordPress meetups and felt it was time to start putting my coding skills to good use on the software we use and love. WordPress has various…

  • Writing my Python Marvel API Wrapper Part 3: Refactor

    Writing my Python Marvel API Wrapper Part 3: Refactor

    This is part three of my ongoing adventure in writing a Python interface to the Marvel API. If you’ve not read Part 1 about structure and Part 2 about adding requests then you may want to do that first. So we left off with a functioning interface for the Marvel API, but ended up with…