On the fifth day of Gitmas, my mentee asked of me… how do I connect these? what’s this “GitHub” of which I’ve heard, Git’s ready – what then, how do I get Git set up, and could you explain Git,…

On the fourth day of Gitmas, my mentee asked of me… what’s this “GitHub” of which I’ve heard? Git’s ready – what then, how do I get Git set up, and could you explain Git, pretty please? Today’s Day 4…

On the third day of Gitmas, my mentee asked of me… Git’s ready – what then? how do I get Git set up, and could you explain Git, pretty please? Yesterday, we got Git installed on your computer. Today’s Day…

On the second day of Gitmas, my mentee asked of me… how do I get Git set up? and could you explain Git, pretty please? Welcome to the 12 Days of Gitmas! On Day 1, I gave you a super…

On the first day of Gitmas, my mentee asked of me… could you explain Git, pretty please? Welcome to the 12 Days of Gitmas! This twelve-part series will introduce you to Git, and teach you how to use it. This…

Last night, a newer Twitch cooking streamer asked us is we had any advice about growing a community. While our cooking stream isn’t particularly big, nor are we particularly successful as streamers, after eight months of streaming on Twitch apparently…

tldr: they’re called properties You know the most frustrating thing ever as a dev? (Even more frustrating than having to name things?) Not knowing the right search terms. I was trying to figure out how to have one of those…

tldr: box collider != box collider 2d. facepalm So I’m dipping a toe into gamedev. Actually I started about a year ago – learning Unity, doing alllll the tutorials, all that. And then I stopped for a while because life…

In a perfect world, search engines would have human-like intelligence. You could ask them a question, and they would actually provide results with the perfect answer. They could look at a website, and understand exactly how the images related to…

On September 11, 2010, WordCamp LA happened at Loyola Marymount University, in Westchester, Los Angeles, CA. WordCamp is a conference that has presentations about all things WordPress. Oh… and guess what? I was one of the presenters! My presentation was…

The sidebar is all sorts of useful. There’s no limit on the number of different sorts of things that could go in a sidebar. Your RSS button? Definitely. Ads? For sure! A video? Heck, why not? You can even have…

For the last few weeks, we’ve been talking about the header of your website. So what’s next? Well, there’s the content section of you website, which changes on every page, and the sidebar, which can get complicated as well. So…

By now, your header’s rockin’, I just know it. You know how to put a cool background on it, use one of WordPress’ built-in functions to put all your pages in the navigation, make your list of pages display nicely…

Now that you’ve got your navigation lining up all prettily, what’s next? Well, you could stop there, if you wanted. But there’s so much more you could do using the wonders of CSS, to make your navigation (and soon your…

Last week, we discussed the super-cool wp_list_pages($args) function, and how it can make creating your navigation on your website super easy. If you want your navigation in your sidebar, for example, or anywhere else as a vertical list, then this…

Last week in my coding series, we discussed headers. More specifically, we discussed how to put a gorgeous logo onto your header, using the background attribute in CSS. It’s a wonderful start, but there’s far more to headers than that,…

So you want to start putting together a website. Where do you start? Well, at the top, of course. The first thing anyone ever sees on your website is your header – so you want it to be great. What…

For the last two months we’ve been talking about PHP. The month before that, we discussed tables, ids, classes, and other rules and concepts that are important for developing a website theme. All of that is important, very much so.…

If you’ve been reading my posts about coding the last few weeks, then you’re pretty much ready to deal with any of the PHP that you come across in a WordPress theme. Heck, maybe you’re even ready to write your…

I’m such a tease. For the last two weeks, I’ve been tempting you with a game of hangman, promising you real PHP code that actually works… none of that silly pseudo-code business. Can you blame me? I’ve got to keep…