The media seems to think that everyone should learn to code, but I strongly disagree and believe we should look at the bigger picture.
Your next-big-thing idea is worthless
So you have an idea and you think it’s worth a million dollars? I think it’s barely worth the paper it’s written on and here’s why.
How to add Departments in ZenDesk
ZenDesk is becoming the de facto support system but it doesn’t handle departments as obviously as other solutions — this is the missing guide.
Hosting your own Git server
Hosting Git repositories is easy and if you have SSH access to a server you can be up-and-running in under 10 minutes.
6 Vagrant provisioning wins
Six solid provisioning snippets that serve me well and make developing and provisioning with Vagrant a little bit easier.
The other side of “Just”
Another perspective on the most dangerous word in software development.
How complicated is programming?
I was recently asked “How complicated is programming, really?” and wasn’t quite sure how to answer — here’s my best attempt!
Get a substring between two strings in PHP
So you need to get a substring between two strings? A quick Google returns about 101,000 results, the first three of which are from StackOverflow and solve the problem for rather specific use-cases. I wanted to solve the problem once-and-for-all in a more general-purpose way.
Continue reading →Custom global commands in Command Prompt (cmd.exe) with parameters
Here’s a quick-and-dirty way to create custom global commands in Command Prompt (cmd.exe) with parameters.
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WordPress Actions & Filters with Closures
Closures (also known as Anonymous Functions) can be called by WordPress Actions or Filters instead of specifying a named function and can lead to cleaner code and escape from callback hell.