Just in time for the holidays! Everyone has their gift lists but who wants to fight for a mall parking spot or struggle through a river of angry shoppers like a worn-out salmon swimming upstream to escape a hungry bear? Let me contribute to your peace of mind with my own lists. This series...
Future proofing your web presence is not just a buzzword – it’s real leadership
The political business is rife with sayings of conventional wisdom that are either thought-provoking, like “Praise in public and criticize in private”, or darkly funny, like “If you want a friend, get a dog”, or both. A whole dictionary of sayings about leadership is also in wide circulation, like “If you are one step...
WordPress plugin puts custom fields on the page as JavaScript
I’m working on a WordPress site for a client who is interested in tracking and providing links to local government, demographic and economic data from outside sources. I want to show it as bits of data as JavaScript instead of on a usual WordPress post. Why, you ask? I’ll get into that more in...
In AppPresser, bad things happen when updating jQuery in WordPress
With AppPresser, jQuery needs to be the version that WordPress ships. Do not remove it! You’ve been warned. I am one of those airplane travelers who likes to sit by the window and strain my neck as I spend every airborne minute staring across the skies to the ground below. While some people quake...
WP-API’s delay shows that the more things change…
I was going to write more about APIs and how they are not only the future of data on the web but also the future of data in real estate. APIs – in particular a flavor called REST API – allow for a universal way for devices, websites and databases to talk to each...