4 minute readWhen writing out filepaths and URLs, should you use forward slashes / or backslashes \? Windows expects one, whereas Unix-style operating systems (Linux and Mac OSs, primarily) expect another. PHP has two built-in solutions, but both have problems, especially if you’re working with WordPress. Backstory At work, I’ve recently had some trouble getting my linux […]
Read More Which Way Do Your Slashes Face in PHP?2 minute readToday I watched “Gutenberg for Plugin Owners“, an online discussion between Brian Hogg, Kyle Maurer, and Daniel Bachhuber, where they discussed and answered questions about how WordPress plugin owners can better prepare for the new editor, Gutenberg. You can watch the replay, but here’s my notes. I was admittedly doing some somewhat noisy house-chores while […]
Read More My Takeaways from "Gutenberg for Plugin Owners" Crowdcast5 minute readToday I spent a few hours wrapping my head around an issue where some websites weren’t able to connect properly to PayPal.com. I found it pretty tricky to understand because it involved quite a few technologies and programs: PHP: a programming language, and a program to interpret lines of code written in that programming language […]
Read More Penpals Explanation of PHP/cURL/openSSL/TLS/SSL/PayPal Handshake Issues2 minute readThis morning I was contributing some code to WordPress trac. There are a few hard-to-remember-commands and hoops I currently need to jump through. Here they are so I remember for next time. Context for anyone else who’s reading: I’m using Windows 7 and VVV because npm doesn’t work well on VVV in shared folders with […]
Read More Technical Notes on Contributing Code to WordPress Core2 minute readWhile troubleshooting an iPhone app, it’s sometimes helpful to see exactly what HTTP requests its sending. Enabling Fiddler to View iPhone HTTP Traffic I managed to do that with Fiddler by following these steps: https://www.pluralsight.com/blog/tutorials/using-fiddler-with-an-iphone-ipad I found my laptop’s IP by doing this: Click on the Start menu and type cmd. When you see the […]
Read More Troubleshooting iPhone App Communication with Fiddler4 minute readThis is some technical stuff I learned today using Git, VVV with a Linux virtual machine, and Windows. I recently started getting these annoying messages again whenever I’d commit anything using Git: warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in payment_methods/Paypal_Standard/help_tabs/payment_methods_overview_paypalstandard.help_tab.php. The file will have its original line endings in your working directory. I had […]
Read More Line Ending Troubles with Git, a Virtual Machine, and Windows< 1 minute readDownload it here: The Magic Keys of Esprenevestos. Print it and read it to your kids! The idea is to try to teach kids “computer sense”, a bit like “number sense”. And I think it can help adults too to understand how HTTP is different from HTTPS, what “certificate” and “certificate authorities” are, and even […]
Read More The Magic Keys of Esprenevestos Children's Story3 minute readOk so I’ve finally decided to continue blogging. I must apologize for the dearth, and for leaving on such a hope-filled note. Alas, I’ve never gotten around to doing that FB Search project. I now have a new project I’m dreaming up… (Another family history one, I’ll probably get around to blogging about it too […]
Read More The Return of Blog: JEE tutorial begins2 minute readSo the next string of posts will be relating to my creation of a FB/Kynetx App tentatively called “Advanced Search.” With it, users will be able to search through facebook photos, wall posts, and whatever else. It will primarily be a facebook app. I want practice using facebook-connect though, so it will also be a […]
Read More KICKOFF of FBAdvancedSearch FB/Kynetx App2 minute readApparently I need to send json to an SQS queue. It’s described at http://globalconstant.scnay.com/2011/03/02/programming-sqs-with-python-and-boto/, and http://classes.windley.com/462/wiki/index.php/SQS_Queues.So I replaced the necessary fields with content specific to the ‘commentprocess’ in sqs. Still, while it doesn’t throw any errors, I’m not seeing my messages being posted into the queue, so I’m not sure if it’s working. Yuck—————————————————-SO I […]
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