This content was written for the Memphis Web Workers User Group on April 10, 2018 The purpose of this talk is to convey how essential NPM, Yarn, Babel, and Webpack are to the JavaScript ecosystem; how lucky we are to have them given the scope of the problems they solve; and why JavaScript developers should… Continue Reading
Better JavaScript with ESlint, Airbnb, & Prettier
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Want to be a Programmer? Find Mentorship Through Tech Communities.
Finding my local tech community and participating in various open source communities has been my single most valuable privilege in the context of my career and fueling my passion for web development. If I had to choose between a master’s degree or all of the wisdom I’ve found and friends I’ve made from talking to… Continue Reading
Talk: Beyond Custom Post Types – Building an Organizational News Site with WordPress
Slides and speaker notes prepared for a talk at WordCamp Raleigh 2017. Old News – Before WordPress Campus News In 2013, UTHSC’s online news was limited to a Press Releases page on the Marketing and Communications department’s site. There was lots of boilerplate press release stuff that was the same on all of the news… Continue Reading
Talk: Managing State in Frontend Webapps with React and Redux
This brain dump was written with love for a presentation at the Tennessee Higher Ed Tech Symposium 2017 and an internally talk for the fine folks I work with. Technology is constantly evolving and changing so it’s easy to dismiss hype as “new hotness.” I must hear “There’ll be a new thing in 6 months” on… Continue Reading
GiveCamp 2017
GiveCamp Memphis is a weekend-long event where local developers and designers get together to build software for non-profit organizations. Give Camp 2017 was held on February 17th, 18th, and 19th at The Fedex Institute of Technology at the University of Memphis. This was a new location for the event, now on its seventh year , thanks to… Continue Reading
Adventures in Laravel Deployment – Digital Ocean vs Heroku
I spent more than a few hours this weekend investigating laravel deployment options. I have an existing personal app I’ve been working on but, until now, I’ve been developing it in Homestead and haven’t really put much thought in to where I would deploy it. The two options I was most interested in were Digital… Continue Reading
Talk: Beyond SEO – What your web developer wants you to know about the web
Here are the slides for the talk I gave at Techcamp Memphis on November 5, 2016 Abstract: I build websites for a diverse set of clients and the greatest challenge I consistently face is not code related; it’s educating clients about web content. Many people want to build a website for themselves or their business but are unaware… Continue Reading
Quick HTML Terminology Reference
It always helps to know what to call things. Someone asked a question about html terminology recently and I thought this might be useful to keep around… consider the following markup: <div class=”my-class” id=”my-id”></div> div is an element with two attributes (class and id) which you can use as selectors, in addition to the element tag (div), to target the element. Targeting… Continue Reading
Talk: Building a [Not So] Simple Navigation System
Memphis Web Workers User Group – May, 10 2016 University of Memphis FedEx Institute of Technology As part of a complete redesign, we developed our navigation menus from scratch and ran in to quite a few challenges along the way. I’ve been working on a major redesign at work and even with the help of… Continue Reading