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Kirsten Cassidy

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5 Tips for Making Fewer Unneeded Decisions

November 21, 2014September 26, 2015 by Kirsten Cassidy

In the last few days I’ve read two articles and listened to a podcast about decision fatigue. Decision fatigue is based on the idea that there is a finite number of decisions that a person can make during the course of the day. The idea is that in this age of information overload, we are …Continue reading

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Php Storm + AZERTY = :) –Updated

September 13, 2014September 26, 2015 by Kirsten Cassidy

Update: I am very pleased to announce that as PHP Storm 9 (or maybe even a later build of PHP Storm 8) this problem has been fixed. You can now do keyboard mapping to your heart’s content and the default mappings work as expected on AZERTY 🙂 I was very excited to use PhpStorm by …Continue reading

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Create a Custom Hire me form with Ninja Forms

July 10, 2014October 6, 2016 by Kirsten Cassidy

I first heard about Ninja Forms on the Apply Filters podcast with Brad Tournard and Pippin Williamson. Apparently they have been around since 2012 but as I was happy with my goto Contact Form 7 and as I didn’t need anything as fancy as Gravity Forms I didn’t think to look into form plugins too …Continue reading

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Why bother with Semantics?

June 27, 2014September 26, 2015 by Kirsten Cassidy

I learned web-design in the age of the W3C validator and used to think something terrible would happen if I launched a site using incorrect HTML. I had a Firefox extension that told if a site was valid or not and it horrified me when other sites didn’t get at least 2 of 3 checkmarks. …Continue reading

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Up and running with WP-CLI

April 4, 2014December 28, 2015 by Kirsten Cassidy

This isn’t a tutorial about installing WP-CLI but if you want one I recommend this one. Let’s compare two ways of downloading WordPress and creating the database. Without WP-CLI This is the fastest way I’ve managed to install WordPress on my local server before WP-CLI: 1. Create the database. mysql -u [username] -p[password] -e “create …Continue reading

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Using the WordPress Text Editor

January 13, 2014September 26, 2015 by Kirsten Cassidy

There are two views in the WordPress code editor:  Visual and Text. To complicate matters there are two different types of buttons that one can add depending on whether one wishes to write in code/text or in WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) mode. The buttons that appear in the visual editor are …Continue reading

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New Year’s resolutions for 2014

January 10, 2014March 17, 2019 by Kirsten Cassidy

Why make resolutions in the first place when they are inevitably broken by mid-March? Some of our age-old practices have their roots in superstition, some in religion.One of the strong points of Catholicism, for one, is the ability to start again with a clean slate. I’m not sure if there are ties between resolutions and …Continue reading

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