The strange rite of code names
So here it is. Time to begin a new coding project. Do I worry about what framework I’m going to use? Do I consider defining a feature set? Do I even have a clue what I’m going to build? Or is all of that far less important than the choice of code name? If...
IFTTT, WordPress, and XML-RPC
I have another pro-bono non-profit site I support, where I set up an automatic feed for news items. When an item is given a particular tag in Pocket, it’s picked up by IFTTT and then posted as a post on the destination WordPress site, which becomes a short...
Setting a featured image with Pods isn’t hard to do, but it’s incredibly hard to find out how
I wanted to be able to set featured images for the IPG website that I’m working on pro-bono. I spent a good part of the evening trying to get things to work with special Gravity Forms hooks, but kept running into unnecessary complexity and roadblocks. As it...
Playing whackamole with development software
Development can sometimes feel like a game of Whackamole. You find one thing that doesn’t work, fix it, and then move on — only to find that the next thing also doesn’t work. Today, I’ve spent a good part of my day trying to finally get my...