Editing the host file on a Mac
This is pretty basic in the dev world–editing a host file– but I’ve had to type up these instructions waaaaaay too often to send to our Marketing department. This post is purely just for me to send to them and…
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CSS aligning
Something I learned pretty early in my career is that vertically aligning in CSS isn’t as easy as you would think it would be. It’s not as easy as text-align:center. Nope. In the days of IE 7, I relied a…
Global .gitignore file
This is so simple I wish I knew it before. In every git project, there seems to be a set of local files that always get added to the .gitignore file. For example, PHPStorm users always get an .idea file…
mysqldump via ssh
Ever since I moved from the Heidi to DataGrip as a database GUI, I feel like some of the most basic things I was doing with mySQL was lost or it’s slow as heck. One of those exporting the database…
Major theme update + AWS Cloud
I’ve been wanting to update my theme and custom make one forever. Truth be told, I don’t have a lot of time to dedicate to it. Maybe one time I will. In the mean time, I’ve installed a very customizable…
WordPress Backdoor for Hackers to try to Login
I work for an ecommerce company. We don’t sell through our website but we do have a very customized, powerful WordPress site to tell people about what we do. It was one of my first WordPress themes that I ever…
Netsuite Toolkit: Finding an item in a saved search
Thanks to my job, I’ve had to learn a little bit about the accounting software known as Netsuite. All but 1 of our engineers say it’s name with a lot of cuss words. I’m kind of 50-50. Since the one…
Dev Dad Jokes
This is gonna be a quick post. I do enjoy good jokes. Dad jokes can be absolutely hilarious or horrible too. My dad shares a crap ton of them on Facebook. Also, as a Software Engineer, I enjoy the funny…
Display menu descriptions with HTML in WordPress
One of these days I’ll get around to finishing the Wedding recap post I started….ehh months ago. Today is not that day. So we are updating our navigation look and feel on our WordPress website. With that new look, it…
Changing permissions to just files or folders
So I was debugging something on WordPress and because I wanted something to work, I changed the plugin folder to 777. While that didn’t solve my problem, when my problem was fixed later, I needed to undo my change. For…
The SSH Clipboard
I have a confession: my memory sucks. Especially with the wedding right around the corner, it’s even worse. There are a bunch of random SSH commands that I don’t use all that often (even less with Docker now). Just wanted…
WordPress Command Line Interface
OMG it's been a year since my last update. So bad of me and so much has changed! Personal life is for a different post. This is all about the developer part.
Two years ago, I was working on a customed plugin that made calls to NASDAQ. There were a LOT of cron commands making API calls for updates. I found out pretty early that the 'Run now' button doesn't do what it says if there are 2 minutes or so before the next scheduled run. This became really annoying really quickly. Then, I had the most recent updates to plugins, I could turn on debug just fine and get errors to log just fine and dandy.