As a parent, sometimes it is difficult to motivate our children to do something. “Eat your crusts” is a classic parent command that often falls on deaf ears. I found myself using this phrase and trying to reason with my son why it is important not to be wasteful. I was less than successful, confirming […]
Hot Dogs and Marketing
I am a programmer. I write lots of code. Most often my code is related to marketing and I find myself thinking about marketing an awful lot. Today I was shopping at BJ’s and at the food counter, they were selling hot dogs. I was hungry so I checked the price; $1.49 for a Hot […]
Custom URL for S3 Bucket
My goal is to setup a custom url, in this case static.ironcodestudio.com, to pull directly from an S3 bucket. Create the Bucket Create the bucket with the name matching the url where you’ll load the file. In my case, I named the bucket static.ironcodestudio.com For the Region, I recommend US Standard. Make the Bucket Publicly […]
Replace Across Multiple Files
Replace All Instances of wolf with dog From the command line run ack ‘wolf’ -l –print0 | xargs -0 sed -i ” ‘s/wolf/dog/g’
Dad Journal
I have two young sons. I can’t believe how quickly their childhoods are passing before my eyes. In an attempt to savor this time I decided to begin writing down things about the boys everyday. I have been doing this consistently for one year. Some of the reasons I think I’ve been successful at this […]
htaccess Redirect with Hashtag
I had to setup a redirect the other day with a hashtag. Whenever a visitor hit a specific URL, I wanted to redirect them to another URL but I also wanted to include a hashtag to indicate where they came from when tracking the information in Google Analytics. It appears the secret is the NE […]
Git file force as binary
Goal Mark generated (concatenated and minified) JavaScript files and CSS files as binary files within Git to allow checking them in while avoiding merge conflicts (currently, I don’t check these files in). Failure I have been unable to get this to work so I thought I’d document my issue here and update this page when […]
WordPress Conditional Tags Earliest Hook
When using conditional tags in WordPress, if you hook in too early the conditional tags don’t work because WordPress hasn’t determined their values yet. The earliest hook for conditional tags Hook wp Example Hook Function to wp add_action( ‘wp’, ‘function_that_uses_is_front_page’ ); Examples of conditional tags is_home() main blog page is_front_page() front of the site is […]
Git Submodule fatal: Could not read from remote repository
Why to Setup Your Git Submodules as https:// not ssh I was pulling a public GitHub repo the other day which featured submodules. The frustrating problem is whenever I tried to init the submodules with the line git submodule update –init –recursive I got the error Git Submodule fatal: Could not read from remote repository […]
Inexpensive 27″ Monitor
I’ve been very impressed with the 27″ IPS-ZERO-G Slim Monitor WQHD 2560×1440 – Dual Link DVI, VGA from Monoprice. At just under $400, this was an excellent purchase for the money. It is disappointing that it uses a DVI connection rather than HDMI but with my Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter, also from Monoprice, hooking up my […]