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WordPress Core Contributor

I’m officially unofficially a WordPress core contributor! Earlier this month I decided that I wanted to contribute to WordPress. The first step I took was joining the WordPress slack channel and I mostly silently (with the odd sentence here and there) observed various...

June 2020 Interesting tidbits about PHP & WordPress

PHP 7.4.7 was released on June 11, 2020. It looks like this was a pure bug fix release. You can find a list of bug fixes here: PHP 7.4.7 change log PHP 8 Release Date PHP 8 will be released in November 26 2020 now instead of December 3, 2020. This schedule is still...

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Vanilla flavoured JavaScript

jQuery, Vue.JS, React, Ember, what do all of the previous items have in common? They’re all frameworks and libraries of Javascript. Beginners and experienced developers like to use things like jQuery because it speeds up the development time. The only problem with...

Your Website is like managing an NHL Team

I have been the GM/President of many websites over the course of my web development career. 
To many people, comparing being an NHL GM to running a website might seem like a reach. Being a sports fan, specifically a hockey fan and only being a fan of the Vancouver...

Know Your Language – PHP

A programmer’s journey to mastering a language and all its features is never considered complete, especially while a language is still in development and obtaining new features. As you read more about a language and discover new tools, you will usually find new and...

The Senior Developer

There’s a time in a boys life (or woman) when he/she crosses from junior developer, to intermediate developer. The intermediate developer can start making decisions in code without screwing the website up, though there’s the caveat that no developer is safe from...