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    TruUcde Rabbithole 02/12 : Testing & Tooling Concepts

    Bytroy June 6, 2020November 1, 2020

    This post looks at some background concepts and the tools required for unit and integration testing.

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    TruUcde Rabbithole 08/12 : Unit Testing

    Bytroy April 23, 2020November 1, 2020

    In this article we are going to look at the actually unit tests for the TruUcde plugin code.

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  • WordPress child themes
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    WordPress child themes

    Bytroy December 20, 2019June 18, 2020

    I’m playing a little catch up here. This resource was created in the spring of 2017 to support a 2-part workshop at the Educational Technology User’s Group (ETUG) spring conference. I found the documentation on creating child themes was either too ‘bitular’ and brief, or it was full-on book length. So I tried to assemble…

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  • TruUcde Rabbithole 01/12 : Whitelist, Blacklist and the Unit Testing Rabbit Hole
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    TruUcde Rabbithole 01/12 : Whitelist, Blacklist and the Unit Testing Rabbit Hole

    Bytroy November 19, 2019November 1, 2020

    This is the story of coding the TruUcde WordPress plugin which enables Site Admins to add users outside of black/white list restrictions.

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  • Plugin: Academic Blogger’s Toolkit
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    Plugin: Academic Blogger’s Toolkit

    Bytroy November 8, 2019June 15, 2020

    Every now and then a WordPress plugin comes along that I instantly know will be a useful game-changer for many TruBox and OpenETC users. I recently installed this plugin on both servers and will take a few paragraphs to show you what it does. The Academic Blogger’s Toolkit (ABT) helps you manage citations and bibliographies…

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  • Easing into Gutenberg: Trubox updates to WordPress 5.x
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    Easing into Gutenberg: Trubox updates to WordPress 5.x

    Bytroy May 29, 2019June 15, 2020

    Trubox has been updated to a version that includes the new Gutenberg editor. Read on for what it means for you and how to use the new editor.

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  • Myscript Stylus
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    Myscript Stylus

    Bytroy February 14, 2018February 14, 2018

    This app profile was scribbled out by Troy Welch with inspiration, advice and consultation from Brian Lamb What is it? I don’t know if it is just me and my stubby fingers, but I find the ‘Lilliputian keyboards’ on mobile devices a cruel form of torture. Like many of you I probably spent well over…

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  • A tale of two [mattermost servers, container types, databases]
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    A tale of two [mattermost servers, container types, databases]

    Bytroy December 11, 2017December 12, 2017

    It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it…

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  • Festival of Learning Reflections
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    Festival of Learning Reflections

    Bytroy January 28, 2017

    [dropcap]E[/dropcap]arly in June a small group of intrepid TRU folks made their way to the Festival of Learning. The four days passed at a furious rate. As I await my homeward flight in the quiet and relatively unknown Stanley’s Brew Works Lounge at YVR the following reflections come to mind. Monday Monday was a very…

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  • Cloud Computing
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    Cloud Computing

    Bytroy March 8, 2016March 8, 2016

    “…it’s cloud illusions I recall…”[ref]http://jonimitchell.com/music/song.cfm?id=83[/ref] [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he “Cloud” has become a staple of everyday computing. We can store our documents in the cloud, create content in the cloud and use a variety of cloud applications. We can move from work to home to the beach and there’s our stuff, conveniently located in the cloud. There are…

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