In PHP 5.5 the DateTimeImmutable class was introduced. Immutable objects are nice in that they can not be modified, which helps reduce the likelihood I make certain types of errors. This is how to ensure the DateTime you’re working with is immutable.
Programming
PSR-2 EditorConfig
The editorconfig project allows you to standardize general coding standards on a project.
I was working on a project where I needed to follow the PHP PSR-2 standard. This is the .editorconfig file I used.
WordPress JavaScript async defer
When loading JavaScript on a webpage with the “script” tag, there are additional attributes you can add to tell the browser how and when to load the JavaScript (‘async’ and ‘defer’). In WordPress, there is not a native way to add these attributes but this code snippet does the trick.
Genesis Child Theme Load style.css with Version Number
How to get your Genesis Child Theme to load style.css with a cache busting ver URL parameter based on the version defined in the header of style.css.
WP CLI Output Results
When working with WP CLI, I often have data to output and instead of looking up how to do it each time, I wanted to make myself some notes.
301, 302, 303, and 307 Redirects
A quick table of the differences in 301, 302, 303, and 307 Redirects.
HttpOnly Cookies
For fun, I was copying the “wordpress_logged_in_” cookie on one of my sites so I could manually set it in another browser and log in without going through the authentication step. While it worked, I noticed I could read the “wordpress_logged_in_” cookie from the Chrome developer tools but I could not read the cookie with JavaScript. It turns out this is because it is a HttpOnly cookie, which I got to learn about.
Git Commit Message Editor
By default Vim is the editor used when writing a Git commit message. While I love Vim, it does work very differently than most other editors. A good option for those who are not comfortable with Vim, is to use a different editor. This is how to setup Git to use a different editor.
Introduction to Arrow functions
I’ve been spending more time working with modern JavaScript (including learning about arrow functions) and I wanted to make some notes here regarding arrow functions (since some details about them were not intuitive to me at first).
Why Learn jQuery
A friend of mine, who is not a developer by trade but deals with websites a lot, asked me recently about learning JavaScript. The short version of my recommendation is to learn jQuery. It is already installed on the sites he is working on and using it he can get results quickly.