Codeable needs people like you! Do you have a special relationship with the WordPress Codex, dream about coding standards and are able to build your own custom plugins from scratch? Do you work well with clients, have amazing communication skills and can solve the most difficult of WordPress customisation problems? Want to be part of… Read more about Are you an experienced freelance, full stack developer, who loves building things for WordPress?
Category Archives: Development
New focus in 2019.
Usually, towards the end of a year, I start looking back at the year that has been, and looking forward to the year ahead, planning my new goals and resolutions. This year, however, I have one very specific goal in my head. It’s an idea that actually birthed itself way back in July of 2016,… Read more about New focus in 2019.
The evolution of a work space
It’s amazing how stories mutate. What started as a simple ‘this is my setup’ post, then turned into a ‘what a day in my life looks like’. This morning I woke up and realised it might be more interesting, and less braggy, to look at how, and why, my workstation has evolved in the last… Read more about The evolution of a work space
It’s just software! WP Builds chats to Matt Mullenweg about Gutenberg.
My friend Nathan over at the WP Builds podcast had the opportunity with chat with Matt Mullenweg about the pending WordPress 5.0 release and Gutenberg. Worth a listen if you are worried about the 5.0 release. While you are there, take a listen to the chat I had with Nathan regarding the GPL. Probably not… Read more about It’s just software! WP Builds chats to Matt Mullenweg about Gutenberg.
Completing the beast – the dream of a lifetime come true.
I stumbled across Car Masters: Rust to Riches on Netflix this past week. As a bit of a petrol head I’ve always enjoyed a good car restoration show and I found the ‘upgrade and trade’ business model that was central to the series story line extremely interesting. Watching the team from Gotham Garage upgrading and… Read more about Completing the beast – the dream of a lifetime come true.
This is why you want to become a Codeable Expert Developer
Is the Codeable Expert Developer certificate worth the weight of the digital paper it’s printed on? In 2016 I certified as a Codeable Expert Developer. I’d already spent a number of years working with freelance platforms such as Upwork and Freelancer but Codeable has stepped out from this crowd to become my preferred platform of… Read more about This is why you want to become a Codeable Expert Developer
Slides from my talk at @wordcampjoburg #WCJHB
The slides from my freelancing talk at WordCamp Johannesburg
WordCamp Johannesburg 2018 – Workshop Resources
I learned a valuable lesson yesterday, if your workshop prep requires a lot of involved setup, you might want to reconsider your workshop. Anyway, for those who want to try and replicate the workshop process at home, here are my slides and the workshop notes I used. You should also be able to followed the… Read more about WordCamp Johannesburg 2018 – Workshop Resources
WordCamp Johannesburg 2018 – Workshop prep
On Thursday the 25th of October 2018 I will be presenting a workshop titled “Turning your WordPress plugin into a SaaS”, where I will be sharing some insight into connecting a WordPress plugin to a Laravel App through HTTP requests. As with most workshops, there is some preparation work required to attend. However because we… Read more about WordCamp Johannesburg 2018 – Workshop prep
On Ubuntu 18.04, Installing MySQL Does Not Set the Root Password.
One of the things I love about using Ubuntu as my primary operating system is that I can have quickly set up a ‘bare metal’ LAMP development environment. While I unusually run my client websites inside on of my custom Vagrant boxes, for working on personal projects or plugin/theme customisation everything’s much faster when it’s… Read more about On Ubuntu 18.04, Installing MySQL Does Not Set the Root Password.