Month: October 2018

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Join me at WordCamp 2018

I love WordPress. It was my gateway technology into feeling like a real web developer. When I did my capstone for the UARTS Web Design program in 2017, I created a WordPress theme from scratch. I started with an index.php and a styles.css and I was off. It was tough in the beginning, so I reached out to a former coworker who was a developer for some much needed help.  I referred to him as the WP whisperer. After many tutoring sessions over Dan Dan noodles and gchat messages about this and that, he was able to guide my understanding and I was able to build my very first WordPress theme.

After that, the bug hit. I started playing around in WP and digging in the source to figure out how it worked. With my newly minted swag, I did my own WordPress on AWS workshop at my house and I even TA’d an Intro to WordPress  class for GDI.

 

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Fast forward to 2018. I took the WordPress show on the road. Liam Dempsey, the organizer for Philly ‘burbs WordPress MeetUp asked me to bring my workshop to his group, so I did a talk for  on how to deploy WordPress to AWS at one of their spring MeetUps. Next, I joined forces with Ebonie Butler, a WordPress developer in Philly to do an Intro to WordPress workshop at the CodeLand Conference in NYC. She is also an organizer for WordCamp Philly.

My love for WordPress and the Philly coding community runs deep. When I discovered the opportunity to become an individual sponsor for WordCamp  2018, I didn’t even hesitate. I appreciate all that I’ve learned from this very welcoming community and I’m glad to be a sponsor this year.

Join us October 27-28 for WordCamp Philly 2018 at The University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. 600 South 43rd street.  Registration opens Saturday morning at 8:00 AM and the keynote kicks off at 9:10 AM, done by the wonderful, Tracy Levesque of Yikes! and GDI Philly fame!   Day 2, Sunday October 28th is contributor day. Bring your laptop  and get ready to  dig in and get involved with supporting the WordPress open source project. Get your tickets now and I hope I will see you this weekend. If you see me, please stop me and say, Hi!

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Using the Tree command to list out your directory structure

I’m in the middle of writing a readme for my final project for my coding bootcamp and
I want to show the directory structure in an image. The tree command is a handy utility (mac and linux) that can be installed via a package manager if you don’t have it installed already.

From the man page for Tree:

Tree is a recursive directory listing program that produces a depth indented listing of files

 

The issue was that I didn’t want to include the node_modules folders (of which there were 2) or the image files. I wanted to exclude the node_modules and *.jpg and *.png files from the output.

  • -I  is to ignore a pattern
  • –ignore-case is so you don’t have to account for case in your search
  • | (pipe) allows you to string the patterns together, just remember to put them in quotes and no space between the pattern and the pipe.
tree  -I "node_modules|*.png|*.jpg" --ignore-case

This did the trick!

Output from tree command