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Writing Posts with CLI Commands

Last updated on March 1, 2021 by Sal Ferrarello

A lot of the posts I write include command-line interface (CLI) commands to type in. I’ve found over time there are things I can do to improve how these commands are communicated.

Warning! This is a draft, not a finalized post. See full draft disclosure.

Filed Under: Dev Tips, Draft, Presentation, Recommendations Tagged With: blogging, command line, website

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Three Tips on Choosing a Topic for Your Presentation

Last updated on January 31, 2019 by Sal Ferrarello

I doing a lot of speaking at conferences and one of the challenges is choosing a topic. Here are three tips on how I choose a topic.

Filed Under: Presentation Tagged With: community, conferences, WordCamp

Override WordPress Publish Date on Creation

Last updated on November 5, 2018 by Sal Ferrarello

When creating new posts for a video demonstration, I wanted to display a consistent date. While my first thought was to reset my system clock, this snippet overrides the date when the post is first created, which worked for me.

Warning! This is a draft, not a finalized post. See full draft disclosure.

Filed Under: Dev Tips, Draft, Presentation Tagged With: WordPress, WordPress Filter

Creating Slide Decks with Reveal.js

Last updated on November 5, 2018 by Sal Ferrarello

When creating slides for my talks I use Reveal.js, which allows me to create slides using HTML. These are my general notes about creating presentations this way.

Warning! This is a draft, not a finalized post. See full draft disclosure.

Filed Under: Draft, Presentation, Recommendations Tagged With: reveal.js

Persistent Header Reveal.js

Last updated on November 5, 2018 by Sal Ferrarello

I use Reveal.js when creating slides for my presentations. Often I want persistent elements on all of the slides (for example my twitter handle @salcode or the conference hash tag). I’ve found the easiest way to do this is by adding a little bit markup and custom CSS.

Warning! This is a draft, not a finalized post. See full draft disclosure.

Filed Under: Draft, Presentation Tagged With: reveal.js

Transcriptions

Last updated on June 11, 2018 by Sal Ferrarello

At php[tek], I got the opportunity to meet Nicolas Steenhout. In addition to everything else he does, in the php[tek] slack channel he shared some recommendations for transcription companies.

Warning! This is a draft, not a finalized post. See full draft disclosure.

Filed Under: Computing, Draft, Presentation, Solution Tagged With: accessibility

Full Screen Image in Reveal.js

Last updated on July 31, 2019 by Sal Ferrarello

I like to use Reveal.js for building my slide decks. Getting an image to display full-screen (while avoiding the image being cut-off) can be difficult. The data-background-size attribute provides a solution to this problem.

Warning! This is a draft, not a finalized post. See full draft disclosure.

Filed Under: Draft, Presentation, Solution Tagged With: reveal.js, slides

Notebook And Computer

How Blogging Helps Me as a Developer

Last updated on February 15, 2017 by Sal Ferrarello

At WordCamp US 2016 I gave this talk, Blogging – The Best Thing I’ve Done as a Developer. This post contains the same general content in written form (for those like me who prefer reading instead of watching a video). I started blogging here at salferrarello.com in 2013 while working as a developer at LaunchDM. […]

Filed Under: Presentation Tagged With: website, WordPress

WordPress Responsive Images

Last updated on November 20, 2016 by Sal Ferrarello

On November 20th, 2016 I gave a talk called How Responsive Images Work in WordPress at WordCamp Baltimore, this is the companion post to that talk. The slides for the talk are available at How Responsive Images Work in WordPress How Do Responsive Images with srcset Work in General? In my previous post Responsive Images […]

Filed Under: Computing, Presentation, Programming Tagged With: WordPress

Avoid Mucking Up DNS

How to Avoid Mucking Up Your DNS

Last updated on August 16, 2018 by Sal Ferrarello

At WordCamp Lehigh Valley 2018, I presented How to Avoid Mucking Up Your DNS. When I started working with websites, modifying DNS settings terrified me. We’ll discuss the things I wished I knew then: A records, CNAMEs, TTLs, name servers, and how to test these things. We’ll look at things I broke and how the […]

Filed Under: Computing, Dev Tips, Presentation Tagged With: DNS

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