How I added a custom post type to my site to showcase projects I’ve been a part of and how I was involved
Category: Web Development
I’ve redesigned GeorgeSpake.com with the default WordPress TwentyTwenty theme.
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 […]
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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 […]
Slides and speaker notes prepared for a talk at WordCamp Raleigh 2017. Old News – Before WordPress Campus NewsIn 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 but […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]