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    Life

    A Look Back at 2023 and Looking Forward to 2024

    Jacob Martella

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    January 10, 2024

    It’s a brand new year. So of course that means it’s time to take a look back at what happened in the previous year and look forward to what’s to come in the new year. So let’s dive into how my 2023 went and what I’m hoping to do in 2024.

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    CSS, Web Development

    How to preload your CSS and why you should

    Jacob Martella

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    February 13, 2019

    You’re trying speed up the page load time of your website and you’ve tried everything. But it’s still not quick enough. Have you tried preloading your CSS and JavaScript resources?

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    Web Development

    The value of open source

    Jacob Martella

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    January 23, 2019

    What’s the value in using and contributing to an open source project? Well beyond the price, it’s really quite remarkable.

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    Life

    An update into life headed into 2019

    Jacob Martella

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    December 31, 2018

    It’s been a while since I’ve written anything, so here’s a brief update about the last month or so of 2018 and what’s coming in 2019.

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    PHP, Plugin Development, Web Development, WordPress

    Object-oriented programming in WordPress plugins

    Jacob Martella

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    August 27, 2018

    Creating a WordPress plugin is pretty simple. It’s just another functions.php file, right? But what if you tried creating a plugin with object-oriented programming.

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    JavaScript, Web Development

    Why you should always focus on the basics when starting web development

    Jacob Martella

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    July 18, 2018

    There are so many web development frameworks that it can be difficult to figure out where you should start. But the basics are always the right place to begin learning.

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    Block Editor, Web Development, WordPress

    How Gutenberg is from a developer’s perspective

    Jacob Martella

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    May 16, 2018

    We’re still in this sort of waiting period for Gutenberg, the new WordPress editor. If you’re a WordPress developer, however, you need to be learning how to develop with it now.

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    CSS, Web Development

    What is SCSS and how to use it

    Jacob Martella

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    March 19, 2018

    In the final tutorial on npm, Gulp and SCSS, we finally get to the fun part. SCSS is an amazing tool that makes writing CSS much better and quicker. And you won’t want to go back to normal CSS again.

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    Web Development

    What is Gulp and how to use it

    Jacob Martella

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    March 14, 2018

    So as we continue to learn how to compile SCSS/SASS into CSS, we now stumble upon Gulp. And this is how we ultimately compile our CSS together for the browser to read.

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    Database, PHP, Plugin Development, Web Development, WordPress

    How to add a WordPress admin page to add data to a custom table

    Jacob Martella

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    January 17, 2018

    So you have a custom table, but how do you get data in there the WordPress way? This tutorial shows you how to create an admin page and insert data into that table.

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