VS Code extensions for the discerning developer palate

I am a VS Code extension snob. I like to hunt down the most obscure extensions for VS Code — the ones that nobody knows about — and impress people at parties with my knowledge of finely aged and little-known VS Code capabilities… then watch as they look around desperately for someone else to talk to. It’s like the “Sideways” of VS Code.

In my endless pursuit of the perfect VS Code setup, I reached out to my colleagues

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30+ Best Fonts for Business Cards

Typography plays a major role in business card design. It’s not easy to find a font that matches your client’s brand and business. With this collection of the best fonts for business cards, we’re suggesting dozens of fonts and typefaces that are a great fit for your next business card design. A business card is […]
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Torque Toons: WordCamp for Procrastinators

Speaking of WordCamps, I’ll be at WordCamp for Publishers next week in Chicago. I’ll be there shooting videos and handing out WordPress themed comics. I hope to see you there! Don’t forget to check out our other editorial toons!
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Advanced OOP For WordPress Part 7: Refactoring Is An Opportunity To Adopt Test-Driven Development

So far in this series on writing WordPress plugins using object-oriented PHP, I’ve focused mainly on testing. This is because a key advantage of object-oriented PHP is that it can be written in a way that is both highly testable and highly reusable. Just using classes doesn’t magically give us this We’ve also not written …
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On Switching Code Editors

I’m sure a lot of you are like me and have switched code editors a number of times. I think my first major editor was Coda. Then I moved to TextMate when I started working primarily on local. Then Sublime Text. And, most recently, VS Code. I bet your journey was different. I know lots of folks that quite love Atom, Brackets, WebStorm, and even BBedit. You do you!

For me, that’s four …

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