This week in my development world I did the following:
- Finished Codecademy’s Learn PHP course. It was loads of fun and like all programming endeavors, had ups and downs as I learned skills and concepts new to me.
- Learned git branches – their purpose and how to create new ones, delete old ones, switch between different ones, etc.
Codecademy’s Learn PHP
I wanted to take this on to help me master WordPress theme and plugin development. Now that I’ve dipped my toes into the back-end, I feel even more confident in tackling the infamous WordPress loop.
Before I get to that, however, I am practicing my newly acquired fundamental PHP skills by building a simple case building app to help speed up one of my primary work tasks: building cases for tech support tickets! It feels good to kill two birds with one stone: building a tool that will help me in my 9-5 as well as practicing a new skill. I’m excited to calcify some of the new concepts I’ve learned as well as test out my new tool at work later on this week.
Git Branches
Expanding on my fairly new Git skills, I have finally gotten into branches. My current case building app project required it as I’m making tons of mistakes and version-control’s utility is really showing itself here.
I’ve managed to build a good starting point for my project so I’ve published that onto my master branch and as I tack on new features—some which work, some which don’t—Git branches specific utility is more obvious to me now than ever.
Now if you will excuse me, I have to get back to my case building app.
Until next time—huzzah!