Blog
- September 30, 2018
- My ColdFusion Summit 2018 Schedule
In a few hours I jump on a plane for Las Vegas to attend the Adobe ColdFusion Summit!
- September 29, 2018
- WordCamp Notes: Blogging Basics, Improve Your Blog and Maximize Results - Jennifer Bourn
blog is a file cabinet - a place to store content that other people need to be able to find easily and quickly
place to store infocategories are like drawers
tags are like folders
- September 29, 2018
- WordCamp Notes: Lessons Learned Releasing My First WordPress Plugin - Jamie Bergen
1. Scratch your own itch
think about pain points for YOU
if you built it, YOU would want to use it
will help you feel invested in the project
- September 29, 2018
- WordCamp Notes: Accessibility, Beginning The Journey - Ben Byrne
Accessibility is...
The degree to which a product, device, to services or environment is available to as many people as possible
pertains to more than just websites - also apps, etc.
- September 29, 2018
- WordCamp Notes: Start Your SEO Strong With 4 Key Pieces Of Content - Taylor Waldon
why your website NEEDS a blog
defining your place online
3 key pieces of content
- September 29, 2018
- WordCamp Notes: Local SEO The Old Fashioned Way - Jim Kaspari
local SEO vs global SEO
local = brick and mortar businesses providing services in the local area
- September 29, 2018
- WordCamp Notes: Getting Your First Online Course Published - Bodie Quirk
What do you need to build an online course?
7 things you must know about
- September 29, 2018
- WordCamp Notes: Podcasting With WordPress - Ray Ortega
The Podcaster Studio
Why WordPress for podcasts?
does everything a podcast needs
starts w/ basic creation all the way up to full blown sites and community
membership site, monetizing
- September 29, 2018
- WordCamp Notes: The Biggest Design Problem I've Confronted Is Project Management - Chris Ford
PRINCIPLES --
guiding principles in design
#1 skill is EMPATHY
REALLY care about people
genuine interest
flexibility
- September 29, 2018
- WordCamp Notes: Site Migration? Redesign? Don't Tank Your SEO - Kathy Alice Brown
what's changing?
migration and redesign can mean a lot of different things
domain name?
url?
design/ theme?
information architecture?
are you rebranding?
- September 29, 2018
- WordCamp Notes: Leverage Linting To Be A Better Developer - Matt Vanderpol
linting
code quality tool4 main components
1. the code
2. rules - describe what the code should look like when everything is working well
3. process - a program that runs, pulls in the rules, analyzes the code, figures out where it does NOT match the rules
4. reports - when the process is done, you need a way to see the output, where your code does not match, where the problems are that you need to address
- September 26, 2018
- WordCamp Sacramento 2018 Recap
Two weeks ago was WordCamp Sacramento 2018. I’ve spoken there before but haven’t been able to attend in the last couple of years due to scheduling conflicts. I was actually scheduled to teach an HTML/CSS workshop in San Francisco on the same weekend this year but the client had a conflict of their own and had to cancel, so off to WordCamp I went!
- September 4, 2018
- Upcoming HTML5 Training Classes in San Francisco
Attention San Francisco Bay Area folks! Who wants to learn how to make web pages?! We’re partnering with the Bay Area Video Coalition and teaching both Beginner and Intermediate HTML5 classes in San Francisco this fall.
- August 21, 2018
- SacInteractive - Static Website Hosting on AWS
On Wednesday September 19 at SacInteractive we have Dave Jones coming to give his talk "Static Website Hosting on AWS".
- June 18, 2018
- Speaking at SacInteractive: The Modern World of ColdFusion + CFML
This Wednesday I'll be speaking at SacInteractive, giving a talk we're calling "The Modern World of ColdFusion + CFML". As anyone that was at Into The Box 2018 knows, modern CFML and tooling rivals other modern languages (even beating them in some areas of functionality). This talk will be an intro to CFML, CommandBox, and related tooling, showing non-CFML developers that writing ColdFusion in 2018 has all the same perks, language features, and other benefits of JavaScript, Node, and whatever else the "cool kids" are using.
- April 29, 2018
- Into The Box 2018 Recap
As is customary these days, I’m at the airport, waiting for my flight, so now I shall write up my thoughts on the latest conference. :)
Into The Box 2018 wrapped up last night, and was a huge success! Attendance has grown since last year, most pre-conference workshops were sold out, and all the regular sessions were streamed on line. Congrats to Luis and his team for all the success — their hard work is clearly paying off!
- April 29, 2018
- Into The Box Notes: Integrating MVC Into Legacy - Brad Wood
the state of your app
what does it currently look like?
is it partially converted to ColdBox?
what are your goals?
are you looking for new features?
better support on a newer version of CF?
- April 29, 2018
- Into The Box Notes: ColdBox HMVC 5 - Luis Majano
software is always bound to change
we must be ready to adaptnot getting out of “legacy hell” is what gives CFML a bad name
running on a deprecated environment
nobody wants to work that way
too many old CF engines still in use
- April 29, 2018
- Into The Box Notes: GET /cfml - Matthew Clemente
github.com/toddmotto/public-apis
list of APIs availablewe use APIs so we don’t have to reinvent the wheel
- April 29, 2018
- Into The Box Notes: Thinking Modularly - Brad Wood
what’s a package?
1. a folder
2. box.json file
3. some codedoesn’t have to be a full blown app.
could be a single UDF, an entire CMS, something in between, etc.