(Okay before anyone objects too loudly, I know WordPress does not have an MVC architecture, and I know this example isn’t really what MVC is all about. But please bear with me.)
One of the tenants of the Model-Controller-View software architecture is that logic is separated from the views. This is not unlike separating style from content in html. In MVC, views are the files that the user interacts with.
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Now that Andrew Nacin has announced that WordPress 3.4 will allow page templates to reside in subdirectories, I am finally going to be able to organize my theme directories with headers, footers, sidebars and page templates all sitting in their own respective directory.
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This is a quickie for Windows users.
Pretty much every single day — or at least days that I’m working on web dev projects (pretty much every single day!), if my computer has been shut down I have to re-launch the same bundle of applications that I use to work. I finally realised that computers are quite good at dealing with repetitive tasks and really should be handling this, not me. The answer is to create a batch file that launches each program.
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Recently I applied for a new (cheaper) business account after over a decade with my current bank. Filling out the application reminded me of doing this very same thing many years ago, and not being able to find my ‘industry’ in the list they provided. Back then I just assumed it was because web development was pretty new. Imagine then my surprise when I found exactly the same problem on this latest application.
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