We are all constantly growing as developers in our respective areas, and as a frontender, I’m always excited to learn new code, particularly PHP and JQuery. I quickly learned it a mistake to not keep track of the custom functions and templates that have helped me complete the more complicated designs, mockups, and client expectations. As an employee…
Your website is important – there’s no denying that. It’s your virtual storefront, your first impression, the way you attract new clients/customers. Your website is where people learn about who you are, what you do and how GREAT you are at what you do. And it’s where they decide if they want to give you…
I ran into a small problem where my ACF text fields and textareas with shortcodes in them, on a new WordPress page template, were not working. I took different steps to try and troubleshoot this issue, making sure that the shortcodes were correct in the backend and that the theme was not stripping them in any way. I know…
Hello, today I want to talk about MySQL. This discussion requires some understanding of MySQL. Let’s discuss the optimization of NESTED SELECT statements. Consider this MySQL statement: SELECT name, (SELECT count(carts.product_id) FROM carts WHERE carts.product_id = products.id AND cart.date=’2015-01-01’) as count FROM products; I have a table for orders and carts and I want to find how many…
3D printers have become very popular in the last few years. I found out about them through a Kickstarter campaign about two years ago, and immediately wanted one. I’ve always been one to “tinker” with stuff; I used to take things apart just to figure out how they work. If I didn’t love web development,…
Here’s a fun little issue that didn’t take a newer developer more than 2.5 hours to figure out! Let’s say you plan to migrate a site from another host to Rackspace Cloud Sites, so you grab the files from the ftp server and move them over to the new host. You then retrieve either an unzipped, zipped, or…
Developers on all sides of the coding table run into walls on a rather regular basis, particularly entry-level developers. We tend to frequently need help but because the workloads never cease, we have to very quickly learn how to handle our problems alone. Of course, that’s not to say that 100% of issues should be…
MySQL statements can be complicated, and writing them can sometimes be quite tedious. Today I want to talk about a simple technique to help improve readability and cut down modifications for MySQL statements in PHP, such as, INSERT and UPDATE. This method requires some knowledge of PHP and MySQL. We will be using an array of data…
From small town Russia to small town Georgia (the state, not the country), our backend web developer Gene has had quite the life journey, picking up a multitude of useful skills along the way. He moved from Yoshkar-Ola, Russia to the states when he was 13, residing in Thomaston, GA ever since. Directed to us from Gordon…