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Advertising On My Blog

These are my thoughts on the common forms of advertising in blogs (AdSense and affiliate marketing). I plan to include ads until I’m actively consulting.

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WordPress Classic Block vs Gutenberg Blocks

After importing posts into WordPress from Blogger, I changed the text from a single classic block to Gutenberg blocks to make plugins work and update posts.

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Throwing C++ Polymorphic Exceptions

If C++ code has exceptions derived from std::exception and a logging function that takes a std::exception the sub-class can’t be re-thrown. Here’s why.

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Now Running on WordPress!

I have migrated my blog from Blogger to WordPress hosted on BlueHost. Here we discuss issues we ran into including DNS and email forwarding to G Suite

Migrating to WordPress Coming Soon!

Recently I have been working on getting a website running for Taylor Built Solutions so that potential clients know what I can offer them and know how to contact me. After posting about switching a client’s site to WordPress I decided to try to use WordPress for Taylor Built Solutions’ site. Given that I’ve now…
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Switching to WordPress and WooCommerce

Here we discuss why we decided to switch a client from GoDaddy’s website buider (GoCentral) to WordPress and WooCommerce hosted on SiteGround.

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GoDaddy’s Website Builder and the Woes of its Bulk Product Import Functionality

These are the problems we ran into while attempting to import products and pictures into GoDaddy’s Website Builder. Let’s just say it was difficult!

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What We Have Here Is A Failure To Communicate

In recent weeks I’ve been busy on several projects in and outside of work. These projects have spawned lots of discussion surrounding the requirements for and definitions of done. Through these discussions I’ve been reminded of three essential points of effective communication. I chose the word reminded because I’ve learned all of these in the…
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C++ Date Silliness Update

This post shows how to use the date library maintained by Howard Hinnant to do simple formatting on a date string. It turns out to be surprisingly easy!

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C++ Date Type Silliness

Recently, I had a project which needed to hold a date with the following properties: Hold the year, month, and day Take a C string (char*) in the format “YYYYMMDD” Do some basic validation and assumption fixing (disallow blank & empty input) Produce a string in a specified format for JSON output My extensive experience…
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