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
Author: Kirsten Cassidy
Php Storm + AZERTY = :) –Updated
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
Create a Custom Hire me form with Ninja Forms
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
Why bother with Semantics?
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
Up and running with WP-CLI
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
Using the WordPress Text Editor
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
New Year’s resolutions for 2014
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