Month: January 2017

What’s Next?

Well I’ve completed my training on WordPress fundamentals. While I will be taking more WordPress courses in the future to advance my knowledge of the platform, it is time to get back to my main task of building a site devoted to do-it-yourself home automation.

I’m starting a new course on Lynda.com, “Amazon Web Services Essential Training”. I would like to host my next site on AWS for two reasons; 1) to have the ability to easily scale the services if (hopefully) the site is successful, and 2) as an opportunity to gain experience with cloud computing platforms in case I need to reenter the corporate workforce.

As I move on to the development of my home automation site, I’m planning to use the Orchard Project CMS in order to keep advancing my Visual Studio and C# skills, but I will be keeping my hands in WordPress as com back to this site to document my process.

Until my next post!

Using content from YouTube and other streaming sites.

Working on the next unit in the media chapter of my WordPress training. This unit covers embedding content from sharing sites such as YouTube. The first technique involves simply pasting the url of a page supporting oEmbed. If the site supports oEmbed, then WordPress can automatically handle the embed.

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Fall 2016 Visit to Tennessee

I’m at the stage in my WordPress training where I need to create an image gallery along with adding a featured image. Rather than just throw up some random images, I thought I create a post recounting my fall trip to Tennessee.

In October of 2016, I visited east Tennessee with my wife Jan. We stayed in the city of Knoxville, but made a couple of excursions which presented me with some nice photo opportunities. I’m not particularly happy with the featured image above because of the portrait orientation, but it is currently my favorite standalone image from the trip, so I will leave it for now.

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How Did I Get Here

In this second post, I’m going to backtrack a little and tell you how I got here. Before being able to make my first post, I had to my blogging environment setup.

Now I had registered my domain some time ago, but had just allowed GoDaddy to park it. For those of you unfamiliar with domain naming conventions (I am hardly an expert), “.me” is technically the top-level domain (TLD) for the country of Montenegro. However, it is a commonly used domain-hack used for registering personal domains.

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2017 New Year, New Life

Dover Williams AvatarWelcome to my new blog. 2016 was a year that presented me with many challenges, culminating with the elimination of the job that I had been doing for the last nineteen years. While my work developing custom software for a company working on an Air Force contract was rewarding and allowed me to grow my skills and work with many good people, the work had become repetitive and at the end I was comfortable that it was time to go.

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