Author: Dan Walmsley
Dan Walmsley
Thrill of the Arts by Vulfpeck
My favorite music discovery of the week, and the album that accompanies packing up our house.
https://play.google.com/music/m/Brwsg7uvnoaejb3tcnhsxp7ynhu?t=Thrill_of_the_Arts_-_Vulfpeck
Field Notes: Tech Inclusion 2015
Automatticians, the people who build WordPress.com, participate in events and projects around the world every day. Periodically, they report back on the exciting things they do when not in front of a computer.
Earlier this month, Happiness Engineers Kathryn Presner and David Cole, Theme Wrangler Michelle Langston, and Community Organizer Jen Mylo attended the inaugural Tech Inclusion conference in San Francisco, CA. The event, which took place September 11-12, was created to explore solutions to the lack of diversity and inclusion in the tech industry, and drew more than 500 attendees as well as hosting a career fair attended by hundreds more.
Diversity in the tech industry has been headline news lately. It’s no secret that white men make up the majority of employees in Silicon Valley/the United States’ tech sector, despite the fact that white men only make up about 30% of the US population. Tech companies like Apple, Twitter…
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Kellea’s first blog post
The title of this post is a bit misleading. My dad and I had a blog for our ill-fated attempt at biking across the U.S. in 2008. Still, this my inaugural individual posting on the world wide web. Hello.
I dedicate this kick-off to my partner/husband/in-house tech advisor, Dan Walmsley, whose patience, persistence, and programming prowess have made my website possible. Full disclosure: he is VP of Engineering for Nationbuilder, the platform I’m using for this site. You’d think the family connection might mean I’m an automatic cheerleader for the product. Not so. I am trying hard to figure out how this works, getting frustrated, and feeling proud when something looks good along with the rest of you. However, I do have the insider’s view to know that the NB team cares deeply about democratizing the web, helping communities organize themselves, and unlocking the power of the internet as a tool for change. With that in mind, I’m giving this “online presence” thing a go.
Thank you, Dan, for dealing with my frustrations and helping me make something beautiful.
Test from iOS
this is awesome
Quick and easy WordPress development using Docker
TL/DR: Head over to this GitHub repo for a handy way to develop WordPress plugins and themes using Docker.
I recently decided to create my first public WordPress plugin which provides basic FitBit stats for your blog.
This was on a fresh laptop (the one handily provided by Automattic, my new employer), so I had the opportunity to try something new in terms of my development environment.
I decided to try out Docker and the new Docker Compose tool (installation instructions – or just brew install boot2docker and brew install docker-compose).
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Test post
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Fixing basic encoding issues migrating / upgrading a WordPress database
I recently joined Automattic as a Code Wrangler (more on that soon), and I decided now was the time to de-spam, combine and resuscitate my old WordPress blogs.
Along the way I noticed a few annoying encoding issues crept in. The Wordpress XML exporter/importer, for example, double-escaped all my quotes so that <a href=”this”> became <a href=”this”>, which as you can imagine broke… everything.
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Test post publishing
This is pretty sweet, but not perfect.
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