At Vatu Ltd, we have 3 main goals: Create high-quality websites Give great customer service to our clients Create a happy, safe, and fulfilling work environment for our staff Today we’re launching a 3 month trial which aims to improve goals 2 and 3, and it simply involves not checking our email. To be more specific, it involves [...]
Darren Pinder
We love WordPress. There are so many reasons to use it, whether you’re an individual blogger or a large company looking for a stable content publishing platform. From it’s excellent editing capabilities, to the extensive library of over 37,000 free plugins in the WordPress directory (plus countless more hosted elsewhere), the many themes [...]
Darren Pinder
As always, us developers will have a task and a plethora of ways that we could go about solving it. But, being the way we are, some more NIH (Not Invented Here Syndrome) then others, we don’t want to just solve the problem, we don’t want to just hack something up to solve it, we want to solve it in the most awesome and [...]
OzzieP
Abstract This article will go over hosting our RSS Feed Slack Bot we created earlier. If you have not followed along you can grab the code from Github. I chose to use AWS Lambda because it should cost less than a dedicated hosting solution, such as EC2. Also, I wanted to learn how to use AWS Lambda. Adding an AWS Lambda Hook Add this [...]
thewongguy
Abstract The goal of this project was to create a Slack Bot which would post blog updates into our Slack. This was born in part, due to laziness. I did not want to manually check for new posts and I had reached the RSS feed limit in my reader. I also wanted to learn AWS Lambda, S3, and the AWS SDK, boto3. I should note, this [...]
thewongguy
So you've got a custom taxonomy, and you want to return the taxonomy's name(s) ("terms") on a single post template on the front-end.
Darren Pinder
My article on Problem 1 is here. This is Project Euler’s Problem 2: Each new term in the Fibonacci sequence is generated by adding the previous two terms. By starting with 1 and 2, the first 10 terms will be: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, … By considering the terms in the Fibonacci sequence whose values do not exceed [...]
jeffliu
wu yi When ECMAScript 2017 was finalized in June I felt that I was not completely comfortable with the language features introduced in ECMAScript 6. ? To fix that I started solving the exercises at Project Euler using as many ES6 features as possible. This is Problem 1: If we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are multiples of 3 [...]
jeffliu
I came across a problem recently whereby I needed to update a few thousand WooCommerce product variations’ shipping classes. To explain, this store had hundreds of products, each with at least a dozen variations. These variations were typically split into 2 types, we’ll call them Type A and Type B. Type A variations were [...]
Darren Pinder
If you haven’t been paying attention, some of the big players like Google and Mozilla are on a mission to make the web more secure. Google search has been using HTTPS as a ranking signal for a few years, but now there’s a browser penalty, too. Beginning in January 2017, browsers like Chrome and Firefox started displaying [...]
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