Author: projectimmerse

I had some consulting work come in – task was pretty straightforward, then again what
exactly is “straightfoward.” In software though, nothing is ever “straightforward”, though
that word gets used a lot to describe something pretty close to being straightforward but not
exactly so.

Alright anyway, I was working off a Genesis theme. Themes, templates, architecture. I think
these terms are all synonymous, the keyword really here is architecture. There are some bad ones,
good ones and terrible ones. Genesis in my opinion is pretty good. But what qualifies as “pretty good”, really? For starters I’d say architecture that is lightweight, modularized, and loosely coupled. Architecture where we can inject new features seamlessly.

I was working on enabling an author box on a blog page, on every single blog post – so this was to be a global implementation for a blog. It’s been a while since I’ve worked with Genesis themes but good news is there’s a pretty big community around it and chances are I would be running into a frequent feature.

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I’m back in the mood for more Javascript, more specifically “vanilla javascript” – which is just a phrase for writing Javascript in it’s true form, free from any frameworks or libraries. I guess the only thing we would be dependent on would be the “Javascript Engine” itself and the available “API’s” available for our use. I think this is pretty cool, we can do a lot with just “vanilla javascript” alone.

Now don’t get me wrong, frameworks and libraries are great – they take care of all the nitty gritty cross browser stuff but often come with unnecessary bloat or extra features that aren’t even utilized. Frameworks like ReactJS and VueJS manage DOM manipulation for you so you can offload having to manage a bunch of selectors. There are some key concepts to be learned in writing plain Javascript though, as we shall see – we can achieve the same functionality with much less code.

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I decided to take a break from my usual programming and wandered the internet, I tried breaking away from any programming related videos. I was looking for something light, I don’t know maybe a web dev conference.

This post is based off a youtube video I stumbled on, it’s entitled “The Early Days of Id Software – John Romero @ WeAreDevelopers Conference 2017“. You know, I didn’t know who John Romero was and I played both DOOM and QUAKE back in the early 90s. John was rockin’ the long hair, it was super long, looked super cool though. I wish they would invite more people like John over to Web Dev Conferences.

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If you’ve been programming for a while now, even if you consider yourself a novice, you’ve probably run into the SSH (Secure Shell) protocol. Now, don’t get intimidated by this technical term, this is just another protocol like FTP (File Transfer Protocol) or HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol). So look, you’ve already engaged with a protocol at one point in your dev career. In simple terms, protocol’s are just a set of instructions to complete a given task.

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Greetings fellow developers, I hope you’ve continued to immerse yourself in something interesting whether it’s programming, physics, math – or whatever. The point is – just keep pushing forward and don’t be afraid to fail. Seriously though, enjoy the journey of making mistakes.

This post is about two functions – PHP’s substr() and preg_match() functions.

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Taking a quick break from System Architecture for a bit, right now I’m in the mood for some (asynchronous) function callbacks using Javascript. A clear understanding of this will help any javascript developer in understanding the dynamic language we all have grown to wrestle with – Javascript.

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