Archive for March 2016
Adding Git Hooks Through Composer Dev-Dependencies
I have been working on refining my development workflow for some time now, in order to optimize the quality of my code. And as I am a big fan of automation, I tend to look for tools that just do their work in the background and only need my input when my mental processing power is truly…
Read MoreAttracting Developers To WordPress
Ryan McCue, Senior Engineer at Human Made and WordPress Core Developer, has posted a series of tweets regarding the fact that WordPress is far from an ideal platform for developers, which has spawned a lot of discussion. https://twitter.com/rmccue/status/710464212183572481 https://twitter.com/rmccue/status/710469646680399874 As a long-form response to this, here’s a list of changes I would like to see in WordPress,…
Read MoreType Declarations using Interfaces in PHP
I’ve recently completed a preliminary code audit on an existing WordPress plugin, and one of the goals I’ve set for that audit was to decouple the code from the JavaScript library it was using, so that it could easily be extended to support future versions of that library. A question came back about the constructor syntax…
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