Adding Projects to GeorgeSpake.com
How I added a custom post type to my site to showcase projects I’ve worked on.
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Redesigning GeorgeSpake.com
I’ve redesigned GeorgeSpake.com with the default WordPress TwentyTwenty theme.
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Talk: NPM, Yarn, Babel, Webpack – Why You Should Care
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 prioritize learning and understanding them.
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Better JavaScript with ESlint, Airbnb, & Prettier
Add ESlint, Airbnb’s Style Guides, & Prettier to Create-React-App without Ejecting. Integrate ESlint with your editor.
- Code
- Software
- Talks
- Web Development
- Airbnb
- Create-React-App
- Eslint
- Javascript
- Memphis Web Workers
- Memtech
- 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 developers at user groups, conferences, and events over the past 5
years, I might hand over the degree.
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Talk: Beyond Custom Post Types – Building an Organizational News Site with WordPress
Slides and speaker notes prepared for a talk at WordCamp Raleigh 2017.
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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.
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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 the recently
established partnership between the University of Memphis and the Memphis
Technology Foundation.
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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.
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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
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