Being able to have custom post types has been a great addition to WordPress since version 3.0 came out in 2010. The ability for having a way to separate out progamatically certain kinds of posts has been very useful, and is something that I have been using for quite some time. Recently, however, I came across the [...]
Web development on Windows
Back to development on Windows… In my last post, I mentioned about how there is nothing like developing awesome web applications on a Mac, and that I had reverted back to my old Macbook 13-inch white model, circa late 2008. I had purchased a mini-dv adapter, and was showing off the latest enhancements to a [...]
Local Web Development on Virtualbox / Ubuntu Server
In my opinion, the best way for performing local web development work is on a Mac. I’ve tried to incorporate everything I’ve learned onto a Windows box when I switched jobs, and I just couldn’t do it. I had to go back to my personal Mac, I don’t know if it was the feel of [...]
Pulling data from a database and loading it via AJAX through Laravel
I have been learning more and more about Laravel, from both the documentation online and also in the IRC chat room #laravel. Again, the community support is superb. I still consider myself a Laravel newb, but I hope my posts on the subject will help clarify somethings for fellow newb’s. This little gem I augmented [...]
The Laravel Framework
I have been working with the Laravel for a recent website. I made the move for a couple of different reasons. I started with CodeIgniter at my previous job, and it was really my first foray into frameworks like this. I was not a seasoned master at it, but I could navigate around it and [...]
Google Apps, Salesforce and Outlook…oh my!
So I encountered this problem a while back. Basically I worked for this company that made a complete move to Google apps. No harm, no foul, the actual email part was not hard. In the office, there was a mixture of Windows 7 computers and Windows XP. The main problem I was experiencing, however, was [...]
Move a WordPress site from development to live
So you’ve created a WordPress site. You developed everything on your local server, and was even a good dubee and made it cross-browser compatible. Now it’s time to move it to the web. (This process works for both the preview site and making it live when they sign off on it) The easiest way that [...]
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