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Have you seen your WebDriver tests fail with vague errors or timeouts when trying to locate and interact with elements on your page?
Following the best practices in this post will help you minimize random failures while running automated browser tests via WebDriver.io and Selenium.
Read more ⇨I never mind reviewing PRs from my coworkers, but I do want to minimize interruptions knowing I typically have other tasks in-flight. To help make the overhead of switching contexts (and branches) more efficient, try using the git pr command found in https://github.com/tj/git-extras …
Read more ⇨I was spinning up a new website using one of my favorite WordPress stacks built on Trellis and Vagrant, when I encountered the following error: “The box ‘bento/ubuntu-16.04’ could not be found or could not be accessed in the remote catalog.”
I had recently updated Vagrant from 1.8.5 to 1.8.7, and had also recently started using Ubuntu 16.04 for my new projects, updating from the previous LTS version 14.04 I had relied on for years.
Here is how I fixed it …
Read more ⇨A week ago, I decided to spend 7 full days learning a couple of the more popular MV** frameworks, after which I would write a little about my learnings and make a choice for my newest project. I had watched a presentation called Comparing Hot JavaScript Frameworks: AngularJS, Ember.js and React.js by Matt Raible, and was inspired to quantify my framework selection a little more thoroughly, even if inevitably I make my choice from the gut. Read more about my experiment with JS frameworks.
Read more ⇨[error] FastCGI sent in stderr: “PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Class ‘gkn\App’ not found.
Here’s how to solve one of the more frustrating auto-loader errors I’ve encountered in Composer.
Read more ⇨Developers love to launch. It’s the culmination of weeks or months of work (if it’s years, you better be building an operating system) and the public is about to see what you’ve created. But it’s far from the end of your big release.
And if you’re juggling multiple projects, it’s tempting to wipe your hands clean after a site or app launches, and change your full focus to a new project.
Read more ⇨If you’re having trouble with uploading images to WordPress (or other PHP frameworks) and seeing blank spots where images should be, read more to discover a possible fix!
Read more ⇨If you’ve ever chased your tail for half an hour on vague errors in your vvv-init.sh files, here’s a few things to check: escaped backticks in SQL statements within shell scripts, and correct Unix/Linux/OSX line endings.
Read more ⇨About a month ago, I gave a talk at WordCamp Austin 2014 about running enterprise-class WordPress in clustered, cloud-hosted environments. Thanks to all who attended, and for your great questions! While it was standing room only for “Cluster Fudge: Recipes for WordPress in the Cloud”, I hope that everyone who wanted to get in was able to see my presentation.
I’d love to keep the discussion going, so feel free to offer your own best practices and tips for success in running WordPress in the cloud at scale! You can leave comments at the bottom of the page.
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