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The 3 Horizons
July 8, 2020
I recently read Gene Kim's, The Unicorn Project, and it touched upon the concept of The 3 Horizons. I have started to introduce this concept into my workplace and it has been getting a lot of positive responses.
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Master Your IDE
July 1, 2020
Every pragmatic programmer knows how important it is to master their IDE (integrated development environment). I created a checklist of easy ways to know when you've mastered it. Since I primarily use PHP Storm in my workplace I will be providing examples and screenshots from the software.
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Updating Laravel 4.2 to 5.0
June 22, 2020
The Pragmatic Programmer brings up an interesting idea that I think Laravel could have learned from earlier on. Avoid inheritance and decouple components. For this article, I will specifically be discussing Laravel and PHP so the examples will of course be from that language.
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Books This Year – Update
June 15, 2020
I wrote a blog post earlier this year discussing the books I had read so far this year. This is an update for the books I have read since posting that.
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Black Lives Matter
June 8, 2020
The world is going through changes. It's important to have conversations with people and use the platforms available to us to try help. I wanted to use this post today to highlight ways that anyone can help in the Toronto community.
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Lazy Loading Images in WordPress
June 1, 2020
I was recently looking for a way to leverage lazy loading on a WordPress site while still using the srcset and custom image size functionality that comes with wp_get_attachment_image(). I found this article on Google's Web Dev Fundamentals that describes how to use intersection observer.
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