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Here are my favorite (most frequently used) resources for debugging .gitignore files: I found this resource on a random hunch that there would be some way to audit or trace back ignored files to see which rule in particular was causing the file to be ignored. After searching for a […]
Rocket Surgery Made Easy is basically a follow-up book to Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think. Where Don’t Make Me Think focused on users’ behaviors and how we make decisions, Rocket Surgery Made Easy is more focused on how to implement user testing in the simplest way possible. Chapter 11 is titled, “The […]
QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life by John G. Miller My rating: 4 of 5 stars I picked up QBQ! at The Bookshelf in Brunswick in June after donating a handful of books I didn’t need anymore. I wasn’t really sure what […]
Recently, I was testing a redirect issue on a WAMP WordPress installation. I was getting tired of going through my history to remove my cache from just the one site, localhost. So I googled and found this solution to make Chrome automatically clear cache for localhost on exiting. Menu > […]
One of the few blogs that I’m subscribed to and one that I actually open and read the emails from is Jay Hoffmann’s The History of The Web. Hoffmann does a great job of narrating how the web developed into what it is today, covering everything from the history of […]
Towards the end of May, I started reading Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin. The book is broken down into three sections. The first is described as the “feel-good” section, where the rules are introduced and detailed. The second section of the book focuses […]
The following questions will help you with preparing for your front end web development interview, or could serve as a refresher! They cover basic, entry-mid level topics in WordPress, AJAX, JSON, and best practices. What is the difference between server-side programming languages and client-side programming languages? Client-Side languages are open […]
