The pandemic and politics happened are happening but I’m talking about the work I’ve been doing the past two years, all that I’ve been learning, how different my work has been, and all of the content I haven’t been posting. As this past contract/project comes to a close I have a bit of time to ..read more
Someone brought to my attention how woefully out-of-date my site is so I thought I’d post a quick update: for the past year I’ve been working primarily on a Golang + Vue application with an amazing team having the time of my life. Since it has been a learning experience all along the way I ..read more
I was late to the party finding out about the new powerful “orderby” argument that came along with WordPress 4.0. From the documentation: orderby accepts a string, representing a column on which to sort: 1 2 3 4 $q = new WP_Query( array( ‘orderby’ => ‘post_title’ ) ); // or an alias $q = new WP_Query( ..read more
WordPress hosting/Web hosting service-providers are a dime a dozen but you get what you pay for. Many businesses or sites that are just getting started opt for cheap hosting and/or something that seems to bundle a lot of “useful” features (cPanel, free WordPress themes, 1- click install, free e-mail) but this often ends up causing ..read more
Continuing on in my series of developing A Django Project on using Windows 10 as your operating system– we are going to move forward by creating our virtual environment and installing Django on it. If you are not familiar with this concept you may find this article helpful for an in-depth explanation on virtual environments, ..read more
Updated on May 11, 2019 It is easy to find plenty of examples/tutorials for developing with Python/Django in Linux and OSX but when it comes to developing on Windows there are many options. Some of these options include using tools like Cygwin, Vagrant, or most recently Windows 10 has provided a new feature called the ..read more