Author: Jeffrey de Wit
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Writing my Python Marvel API Wrapper Part 2: Requests
With my structure largely in place I was now ready to add functionality. To make things a little easier on me, I’ve decided to use the wonderful Requests Python library. It makes it significantly easier to make requests and handle responses, because it does all the heavy lifting for you. Discoveries I quickly discovered there’s…
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Writing my Python Marvel API Wrapper Part 1: Structure
A little while ago, Marvel released an API that allows you to get information on just about anything related to Marvel comic books. Be it a first appearance of a character, what series a specific writer was responsible for, or which characters were part of specific events in the Marvel universe, you can most likely…
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Some Accessibility Basics
Update August 21st 2014: I’ve updated the skip-links section to add a fix for an issue in Internet Explorer and Chrome. This fix has been described in this “Fixing Skip to Content Links” article by Nicholas C. Zakas and so is not mine. Credit where credit is due :). For my job at Highforge I…
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Video APIs and mobile devices
When developing websites it’s inevitable that you’ll come across the need to implement videos of some sort, and to save your own server’s bandwidth you’re using a video provider like YouTube or Vimeo. Now, it’s easy to just drop in the embed code where it’s needed. And there’s nothing wrong with that. However, embed a…
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Learning Python the hard way, Day 1
A recent development at work has been a shift away from WordPress to build our websites. After giving Drupal a shot, we’re about to start a project using Django. Since I had plans to learn Python regardless(see last year’s Cheffism Episode IV: A New Look), this was the perfect excuse to actually get started on…
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The end of the year, 2013 and holidays
I’ve been sitting on this post for months, mostly because I’m trying to find time to restructure my site’s multilingual portion, trim plugins and figure out AWS. But more on that in a later post. Now, on with the original post! And just like that, 2012 is over and done with and I’ve been in…
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The story so far…
So I’ve now long passed the 6 month mark in my new home country America and there have been a number of changes since my last post about obtaining my SSN and bank account and getting married. Employment and things First of all, I’m finally able to work legally in this country. It took almost 3 months to finally get…
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Cheffism: Now with more sass
Recently I’ve been becoming more and more exposed to different development frameworks and techniques. One of them is the Sass CSS pre-processor, which has been nothing but lovely. In an attempt to learn and use this practical tool, I’ve converted all of my theme’s CSS to work with Compass/Sass and configured Compass to minify theCSS…
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Cheffism Episode IV: A new look
While having nothing to do seems nice, and it was the first month or two, watching TV all day gets boring very quickly. Especially with HBO showing The Green Lantern multiple times a day and week. So things had to be done, not only to entertain me but also to hone my skills further and keep…
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The ceremonial wedding
I really need to get back into the habit of updating this more often. In my defense though, I’ve been waiting for the pro wedding pictures but they’re taking some time to get done. And because we still don’t have them yet, I’ll just go ahead and write this post and show pictures separately. This…