Chris Reynolds goes mega in-depth with…
Chris Reynolds goes mega in-depth with a new post on WebDevStudios blog on their Git workflow.
Chris Reynolds goes mega in-depth with a new post on WebDevStudios blog on their Git workflow.
Pagely has made some drastic changes to their hosting platform over the last few months. They’ve moved from Firehost to being fully powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), led by their new CTO, Joshua Eichorn. Measuring tiers of hosting by pageviews is a popular method for WordPress hosting companies, but Pagely doesn’t do that. They…
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John Blackbourn gave an excellent lightning talk on Git Bisect. (His slides are here.) Trust me — if you work with Git at all as a developer, the things John has to show you will blow your mind. John also recently released a new version of the Query Monitor plugin that includes a new panel…
Evan Solomon has completely rewritten a command line automation tool for deploying to SVN with Git. It’s called Scatter, and it looks pretty awesome. He’s also got usage examples and a fully updated readme. This looks like a nice way to interact with WordPress and its SVN workflow if you’re more familiar with Git.
Using WordPress, it’s a poor assumption to assume the wp-content, plugins, and uploads folders are always in the same place, or even always called by those names. The configuration you see above is a sample WordPress root directory. This isn’t uncommon. Many people who manage their installs with version control such as Git probably recognize…
I loved these charts from Yoav Farhi on the “half-life” of WordPress code. The charts were generated from scrips authored by Erik Bernhardsson that he used to analyze Git projects. They show WordPress’s growth (by lines of code) over the years.