As you may have read on my LinkedIn or elsewhere, in the last year or so, I started working with APIs fairly regularly at work. A couple of the APIs I’ve used are WishList Member, Mandrill, Stripe, and ActiveCampaign. At my job, we use APIs to store customer information (name, […]
I was browsing CodePen and found this pen by Jamie Caballero. What comes as a surprise to me is that it isn’t using any JavaScript. The animations are all done in SCSS, which is a CSS preprocessor. It is also using Haml, which is a markup language that stands for […]
Here’s a cool jsfiddle by Chris Coyier I came across one day. It’s kind of like a “floating” border effect with transparency. Transparent Inside Border Pseudo Element
Today I’d like to share with you my favorite things about my career, and the not-so-great things. We’ll start with the worst, since the “best” list cancels them out. The 3 Worst Things About Being a Web Developer #3 People believe you perform magic. I can’t tell you how many […]
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! 🙂 I was inspired for this week’s Function Friday when I was working with Stripe API (using PHP). I was developing a webhook for when a charge fails that would send an email to various departments at my company. We needed the email […]
Have you ever been on some random site that you have an account on and you realize your photo is automatically there? Well if you’ve never experienced this, you must not have a Gravatar. Created by the makers of WordPress, Gravatars can be pulled from any WordPress site using the […]
My WordPress Multisite Experience Welcome to my first Multisite post! I certainly do not claim to be a WordPress Multisite expert (or even a WordPress expert), but I recently launched a Beta version of my first WPMU site. As I write this, the Beta version of the site has 57 […]
