A Happy New Year to you all!
It’s that time of year again for looking back to see how far we’ve come. 2017 was a rather productive year for me where I have tackled some big tasks.
Here are some of the highlights of my 2017.
Released PostTypes v2.0
This year I set about adding unit tests to PostTypes. This was an interesting endeavour and I learnt a lot in the process.
Adding unit tests to a project that works with WordPress can be a tricky task at best. I did a lot of research and documented my thoughts in an issue on Github. There I expressed the problems I was facing along with potential solutions.
In the end it took some time but it turned out to be rather painless, and in October I released PostTypes 2.0. Now I need to create better documentation for it.
Rebuilt Oh Thats Nice
I released Oh Thats Nice back in 2016. I built it on WordPress but soon came to realise that was a mistake. The process of adding a new site to the gallery was taking far too long and hosting was becoming an issue.
Wanting to automate a lot of the work, I made a decision to rebuild the site using Jekyll. This allowed me to manage posts using git, have the site built with Travis CI and deployed to Surge.
I automated things further by creating and uploading screenshots programatically with Webshot. I then went automation crazy and started work on a twitter bot for the @OhThatsNice_ account.
I’ll be working on this project more in the year to come.
Cleaned up hosting
I occasionally make websites for friends which I also host. The hosting I was using for several years had become slow, outdated and a complete mess.
The process took a lot longer than I’d like to admit but I finally finished migrating all sites to a new setup. Using Pixeno’s reseller hosting has cleaned everything up. Each site has it’s own cPanel making things much easier to manage and setup new sites.
If you’re looking for a new host Pixeno (affiliate link) is a great company offering developer friendly hosting with good support.
Looking forward to 2018
I’m stepping into 2018 with a lot of excitement. I’ve got some new projects lined up which I’m eager to get into and will be a lot of fun to build.
I’m planning on writing more for this blog giving insights into some of the things I have been working on. So keep coming back over the year to get a sneak peak at the projects I’ll be building.