Hours 1-5
I know it has been more than a few days (or even weeks) since I said I was going to log all my events in reaching my 10,000hrs towards being an expert in development again. But with relocating back to Australia and taking care of some outstanding business, the time to post properly and catalog the information did not exist until today. However, I have my scrawlings in my notebook, and reference URLs stored in Evernote, which I will now present a nice, clean, aggregated format for your reference. Hopefully you can learn from me too!
Tasks I Needed to Dev
- Add custom theme settings to my WordPress Theme project – What I discovered here is that WordPress now has a WordPress Settings API over the last few versions and most themes/plugins are ridiculously out of date and not applying these new standards.
- Setting up GIT repos – Something I have never religiously done is use a version control system, and I thought this is a better time than ever to do it properly. Was reading up on setting up and using GIT properly.
- Stepping through and fully understanding how the ZURB foundation framework operates and how to migrate some of my existing client templates to that framework. Result: 2 massive thumbs up!
- Using the FatFree PHP framework for new projects, starting with my internal project management system. Loving it more than CodeIgniter at the moment, and spending time on the IRC channel to get help from the (small) community. Thanks for the help so far guys!
- Setting up the WordPress Debugging/Testing plugins on my local development instance. I cannot believe I did not do this sooner! Great feedback on all the work.
That is about it for now. Whether or not that is 5hrs exactly I am not too sure, but it’s a rough guess.
If there is anything I missed out or you have better resources, share them in the comments and I will add them to my list (and give you props).
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