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Setting Up a WordPress Development Environment with DesktopServer and GIT for WP Engine

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One of the challenges in using WordPress with an external hosting environment and multiple developers is the creation of a local development environment with version control that will work seamlessly. Fortunately, using a combination of DesktopServer from ServerPress, an industrial-strength WordPress host like WP Engine and Git, you can have multiple development environments up and running relatively quickly. In this tutorial, I will explain how to create and set up a local WordPress development environment on a Mac, using DesktopServer by ServerPress, using a WP Engine backup point and then set up Git for version control. If you don’t use WP Engine, this tutorial probably won’t be very helpful.

I highly recommend WP Engine for reliable, secure WordPress hosting. They provide excellent customer service, daily backups and an easy restore process, a staging environment, git for version control, and much more! I like them so much that I would recommend them to anyone (even if I wasn’t part of their affiliate program, which I joined after using their service).

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HTML5 Texas JavaScript Workshop – Client-Side Storage

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HTML5TX JavaScript Workshop - Pamela FoxWeb technologies have taken a long time to progress.

A lot of the standards we see today are because browsers decided to implement new features.

HTML5 is now just supposed to be HTML. It is supposed to be a living standard.

Pamela needs an HTML app that helps choose her hair color.

Client-Side Storage

Cookies are used for all types of tracking, but they have issues with security, user trust (can be disabled), performance and size.

In the HTML spec, they considered the issues and came up with the following solutions.

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localStorage

  • Key / value pairs – hash table
  • Persistent on page reloads
  • Avoids HTTP overhead of cookies

Create More Value Than You Capture at #SXSW2012

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Monday, March 12, 2012 at South by Southwest Interactive Conference, Austin, TX
by Tim O’Reilly (Founder, CEO – O’Reilly Media) and moderated by  #sxsw #values

What companies have done is stopped taking care of our clients and customers and thinking of themselves first, even when it goes against the good of their customers and clients.

It is important to understand that monetization comes later, but the really good things come from people having fun or providing a good

I wouldn’t say I’m a first rate capitalist. I have more than one billionaire come up to me and say, “It all started with one of your books!” And all I got out of it was $35. – Tim O’Reilly

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Jared Spool – Mobile & UX: Inside the Eye of the Perfect Storm

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UIE Web App Master’s Tour – Seattle, Washington – May 23, 2011

 

h2. Mobile & UX: Inside the Eye of the Perfect Storm

Session 1 – Jared Spool

The UX aspect of mobile has really exploded recently.

Examples:

My Coke Rewards – mobile site had to have Flash. Excluded all iPhone users.

Fox Weather “Alternate content should be placed here.”

MikePanetta.com – QR code on sign, but no mobile site.

Mariott Hotel – connect to wifi via mobile

h3. Sturgeon’s Law

Theodore Sturgeon “90% of everything is crap!”

United airlines email link to 404 page

Coke has fixed the flash problem, but shows the entire site when user is trying to input a code.

You would think by now that we now how to show sites on mobile now, but companies still have issues: verizon wireless, att, apple, air canada

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