WordPress WordPress as a back-end data store using the WP REST API I'm just starting to experiment with the WP REST API and it has the potential to make WordPress the back-end for my non-WordPress coding projects. For zack.pizza I can make a new
WordPress Layout in the WordPress Twenty Sixteen theme I'm going to make some changes to a child theme of the WordPress Twenty Sixteen theme. It's currently one of my favorite starting points when theming in WordPress. It is simple but not
WordPress Spend less time searching the WordPress Dashboard Menu "Where is that button?"That is what I most often think when looking at the WordPress dashboard menu and an experience I want to minimize for clients I'm handing a site off to.
WordPress Setting Up Local Development on a WordPress Blog at Dreamhost We will be working with a Mac running MAMP and a Dreamhost account running a 1-click install of WordPress.Basic OverviewTo run WordPress on Dreamhost, locally on your Mac there are a few
Saving user data in the Hubot Redis brain This is a quick tutorial about saving user data in the Hubot Redis brain using the Slack adapter.There is documentation out there about the hubot-redis-brain, about redis commands, and the Hubot slack
Thoughts on the Cooper Hewitt Pen About a week ago, I went to the Cooper Hewitt to try the experience of visiting with their new Pen, designed in house by their technology team.Using the PenIt felt very natural
Removing leading and trailing spaces and   in Ruby tl;drIf .strip isn't working, try .gsub(/\A[[:space:]]+|[[:space:]]+\z/, '')The POSIX space character class [:space:] matches tab(\t) , line feed, form feed(\f), carriage return(\r), and space. In Unicode,
Sieve of Eratosthenes In working on Project Euler's 'Largest prime factor' problem I wanted a better way to find primes in a range than brute force testing each number. After a little research I found the
Flatiron School Cinch IRC bot Setup I've been wanting to setup an IRC bot for a while and finally got a chance last weekend. It was both free and easy to do using the Ruby Cinch bot framework, Heroku
Flatiron School Building the Sunset Somewhere app Sunset Somewhere is a web app that Matthias Loker, Amy Johnson and I built at The Flatiron School. The idea is to show a big beautiful photo of a place where the sun
Flatiron School Getting familiar with IRC I've tried to figure out why many of the engineers I know still use IRC even though it's such old technology. I've tried it but don't totally understand it. Since I'm learning to
Flatiron School Notes on My Beginner Dev Environment This post is a quick list of some of the things I'm doing to help me code and learn during my time at The Flatiron School.