Throughout the years, I’ve found that every office space I’ve worked in presented challenges for being productive. Being comfortable in your work environment is a critical ingredient for staying focused and productive. After years of experimenting, I finally have a great formula that transformed my dimly lit home office into an awesome creative space in […]
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Using Git is great for version control for your various projects, but sometimes your repositories become so bloated with testing and development tools that the project becomes difficult to navigate. Not to mention how much more bandwidth is needed to pull and push updates to your code base each time you work on a new
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Introduction Local by Flywheel is a popular tool for getting quick and reliable WordPress installations running on your computer. One of its lesser-known features is the inclusion of xdebug support. xdebug is a PHP extension that allows for real-time debugging of PHP code. Today, we’re going to go over how to get both of these
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Any job requires planning, organization and communication, but remote work needs all of those things ten-fold. Working remotely comes with its own set of distractions, depending on how and where you work. Distractions might happen in the form of the hustle and bustle from your favorite coffee shop or the attention needed by your pets
As a 100% distributed company with remote work employees across the US (and one in Canada!), WebDevStudios (WDS) relies on Slack as our main internal communication tool. So when Slack goes down, as it did yesterday, our team is directly affected, but the reactions are pretty comical. When you’re working remote and @SlackHQ has been
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What Is Database Management? Very simply put, database management is knowing how to access, configure, debug, and manage your database. For some website owners, this isn’t really a concern. Even developers rarely need to poke around with the database, and for many of us, it’s just a piece of software that someone configured once and, as
If you’ve wanted to dive into Jenkins, chances are that the first thing on your mind is deployments. And if you’re like me and have absolutely no idea what you’re doing, it’s even more likely that you will be completely confused on how to approach it. I mean let’s be real, developing a Jenkins pipeline
As most of you know, WebDevStudios (WDS) is a 100% distributed company. We don’t have a brick and mortar office and we all call part of our homes our office. While this is great for a number of reasons, such as reduced overhead for the company and no commuting necessary for our employees, it does come with
December 7 is a date which lives in infamy. Chrome 63 was officially released. Okay, so really the attack on Pearl Harbor is what is worth remembering about this date, but let’s talk about why the release of Chrome 63 is important to those of us in the world of development. We are saying goodbye to
Photo by Andrew Wulf on Unsplash One of my favorite things to do as a developer is rubber ducking with other devs. If you aren’t familiar with rubber ducking, the term comes from the book The Pragmatic Programmer in which a dev would explain, line by line, their code to a rubber duck. Writing code is hard, and
