How to Become a Better Brogrammer
This video made my day, was laughing like crazy! Hat tip to Philip for sharing. Some dudes are just not born to be brogrammers :)
This video made my day, was laughing like crazy! Hat tip to Philip for sharing. Some dudes are just not born to be brogrammers :)
From WordCamp Norway 2012, earlier this year, an awesome presentation by Wilhelm, who takes us through the world of responsive wed design. It isn’t something new, I agree, and as he mentions media queries have been around for over 10 years. However, it’s very nice to catch up on things, since a lot of WordPress theme developers are still overlooking all of this.
One important aspect that Wilhelm mentions is that your printer is a device as well. Nothing to do with media queries, but reminds me of the importance of the print stylesheet. Also to keep in mind is that responsive doesn’t necessarily mean device, but the browser width too. It’s nice if you can shrink your browser width and still be able to read without scrolling left and right, I wish we had this in the PHP functions reference and the WordPress Codex — would save me a bunch of Cmd+Tab hits back and forth.
Anyway, how are you using responsive web design? What are your favorite examples? What grids and/or CSS frameworks would you recommend for responsive web design? Have you tried changing the browser width on my blog? Thank you for taking the time to read/watch this, and feel free to subscribe for more goodies!
Daniel Bachhuber of Automattic’s WordPress.com VIP team, gave this awesome talk at WordCamp Phoenix 2012 earlier this year. He walked through some things developers are overlooking when working with WordPress, and some great tips and tricks to speed up your development workflow.
One thing I learned from that talk is that I should stop using Textmate’s “search in project” and use ack instead, which is faster, available in the command line environment (no need for GUI), and has a bunch of options for output customization. By the way, here’s how you install ack on OS X:
sudo port install p5-app-ackYou can find the notes and slides to the presentation on Daniel’s blog, and by the way, it was originally called “Five tenets to mastering WordPress development” :)
Hope you enjoy the video and feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section below.
It’s never too late to learn about child themes in WordPress, and in this video from WordCamp San Diego, John walks us through the very basics of child theming, overriding templates, overriding vs. pluggable functions and of course theme frameworks.
Andy Stratton gave a presentation called “Diet Pills, SEO, and Theme Frameworks” at WordCamp Chicago 2011. He talked about WordPress themes, frameworks, marketplaces and a lot of related misconceptions, and some of the many problems with commercial themes including SEO, customization, child themes. Here’s a quote if you haven’t got time to watch the whole video.
There are no shortcuts to awesome!
So if your clients think that $30 themes are flexible, customizable and awesome products that will solve all their business problems, they might be wrong. Thank you Andy for clearing that out! Andy’s presentation is on SlideShare too!
Andrew Nacin and Otto Wood gave a great talk at WordCamp Montreal a couple of weeks ago on Advanced Topics in WordPress Development. They cover some of the cool stuff available in the WordPress like taxonomy and meta queries, the filesystem API, transients and embeds. Great to learn from the pros ;)
Hey there, been a while eh? I’ll write a little bit more about what’s happening here in a few days, but this weekend I’ve been watching the WordCamp San Francisco 2011 conference, and with all the brilliant sessions I got inspired, so this morning I crafted this:
Thinking if this is at all usable. I’m thinking yes since I’ve been using TextMate for a little longer than three months now and I really enjoy the bundles and macros there, real time savers. Thoughts?
You all know I’m a big fan of Google’s promotional videos, and here’s a really really nice one about their new Google Chromebook. Definitely one of the best promo video’s I’ve seen so far, and even better then Nexus One ;)
I’m not a big fan of Chrome OS but I do use Chromium for work and play, and I really love the idea of having no software. Salesforce, remember? And Larry Ellison on cloud computing: “If there’s no hardware or software in the cloud, we’re so screwed!” ;)
I’ve been working on a free theme called Minimal Georgia lately and based on it, I’m now running a few experiments for theme customization, of course inspired by Squarespace.
One of my first experiments is the color wheel and there are plenty of jQuery plugins and code snippets that could do that. With a few more research about colors and their hex codes, I found a way to determine a color darker or lighter than the chosen once, enabling me to do the gradient fill, drop-down menu colors. The HSL values returned by the color wheel let me switch the font color, so that the text appears white on a dark background and black on a light one.
As you can see the color wheel not only affects the website header, but also the links on the page, giving them a darker color than the one chosen, giving a better contrast. Of course it is not perfect, but I’ll get there eventually ;)