The great thing about first principles is that it gives you the freedom to step back and say: Now how do I really want this to work? I want to incorporate into my blogs some sort of comment-ability. I also want this to post to Twitter with a direct call to action. I don’t see […]
Code Fun Blog Posts
Space Travel CodePen
Original CodePen by: https://codepen.io/jfirestorm44 My playground:
Why do I not use a Virtual Machine from my local box?
The first place I worked, iSTORM didn’t use virtual machines. They had a staging server and a production server. We developed on the staging server and used CVS to synchronize code into production. Later on in my career there was a project where part of the consistent environment setup is everybody using the same virtual […]
Cool, Well Done Site
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Slim Framework Auth Example
Clean Code Studio has done a great job with the Slim Auth tutorial. Check it out here: Setup Slim Views With Blade Psr-4 Autoloading Controllers Service Providers Pretty Whoops Error Page Env Variables Files Http Kernel Eloquent DB Setup Database Migrations, Seeds, & Factories Slim Console Commands Vue js front-end Tailwind CSS Setup – https://tailwindcss.com/ […]
Hooking Price Filters into Product Search Engine
As a user, I want to be able to search “cheap tape” or “expensive tape” and have the outcome bring to to relevant filtered results. Or even “cheap scotch tape” Bear in mind, the “Adhesive Tape” category isn’t that sexy. This would make better use cases for “cheap laptop” or “high-end computer chair” or other […]
The Making of a Slider
This blog is about this slider. First a little back story. This is a price filter. But in order for a price filter to work, you need to have products and prices which were feats in and of themselves. These prices come from competing distributors such that best prices are always calculated from the cheapest […]