One of the greatest things about the Amazon AWS services is that they save a tonne of time on the reinventing the wheel. There are numerous technologies out there and nobody has the time to dive deep, learn, and try all of them. Amazon AWS often provides ready-made templates and configurations for people who just … Continue reading Get Started with Blockchain Using the new AWS Blockchain Templates
WordPress is an excellent system for a whole lot of different projects and needs. It’s widely used, fast, and flexible. However it does show its age in many ways. One of the areas where things could be a lot better and simpler is the WordPress plugin development. WordPress plugins are still non-trivial to develop. This … Continue reading WordPress Plugin Boilerplate – a standardized, organized, object-oriented foundation for building high-quality WordPress Plugins
“Parsing: a timeline” is a historical timeline of parsing, as done by computers and computer programming languages. It starts well before computers were actually invented, from the time where people started thinking about what is a language, what it consists of and how it works. Even though this article is mostly aimed at technical people, … Continue reading Parsing: a timeline
“Immutable Deployment @ Quorum” describes yet another approach to automated, and this case – immutable, deployments. This particular setup is slightly more on the SysAdmin/DevOps side rather than on the development side, utilizing tools like Ansible, Amazon EC2, and Amazon AMI. If you are building very few projects, or projects with little variations, and use … Continue reading Immutable Deployment @ Quorum
The other day I came across this blog post by Mark Jaquith, who is one of the lead contributors to WordPress, in which he describes his process of updating WordPress plugins with WP-CLI and Git. I think a lot of people these days are trying to use Git for version control and automate their deployments, so … Continue reading Updating WordPress with Composer and WP-CLI