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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 developers at user groups, conferences, and events over the past 5 years, I might hand over the degree.

2017-07-05

7 minutes to read

Talk: Beyond Custom Post Types – Building an Organizational News Site with WordPress

Slides and speaker notes prepared for a talk at WordCamp Raleigh 2017.

2017-04-23

10 minutes to read

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.

2017-03-30

13 minutes to read

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 the recently established partnership between the University of Memphis and the Memphis Technology Foundation.

2017-02-21

2 minutes to read

Py Tennessee 2017

This past weekend, I rode to Nashville with some friends from the Memphis user group community to attend Py Tennessee 2017 . This was my first year attending the conference and I’d hardly call myself a Python developer but I had a great time, learned a lot from the talks, and met some really cool people from all over the country.

2017-02-07

One minute to read

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.

2016-12-31

4 minutes to read

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](http://www.techcampmemphis.org/sessions/beyond-seo-what-your-web-

developer-wants-you-to-know-about-web-content/) on November 5, 2016

2016-11-05

One minute to read

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…

2016-10-18

One minute to read

Refactoring PHP for loops with array_map()

You have a PHP array that you need to change in some way so you loop through the array, using a for-loop, alter each item, and push it in to a new array. Try map instead.

2016-10-14

4 minutes to read

Talk: Intro to WP-CLI

These notes are for a talk at the WordPress Memphis User Group on October 6, 2016 .

WP-CLI is a command line utility for WordPress that I regularly use to manage WordPress sites. WP-CLI works great for small sites and huge multisite installations and without it, some of the work I do - even as simple as updating multiple WordPress sites - would be magnitudes more tedious. This is something that everyone developing or maintaining WordPress sites should be familiar with.

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2016-10-06

2 minutes to read

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