Bienvenue! Welcome!
My goal is to help you work faster.
I must speak and teach until I hear 10 people say, "That thing you taught me? I used it! And it saved me time!"
(Ahem ... although maybe blogging slower than I'd hoped. Ugh, coders' repetitive stress injury.)
So check out the tutorials. Play with code. Tell me about your triumphs.
Sep. 9: Content creation panelist on Whiskey Wednesday podcast
08 Sep 2020
Sep. 9 at 9AM Pacific / 12 noon Eastern / 4PM UTC / 5PM British Summer Time, I’ll be livestreaming as a guest on Whiskey Wednesday, a new web development podcast by Marc Backes and Scott Spence. I can’t wait to join fellow panelists Randall Kanna, Rich Haines, and Jon Hilton.
Continue ReadingIntro to XML, JSON, & YAML: the book
04 Sep 2020
I wrote a book!
I'm honored by this lovely note from traditional sysadmin turned Salesforce admin + developer Kris:
"Thank you SO MUCH for making JSON and XML clear and removing the enigma and fear and ego from these topics."
Download or print your copy of Intro to XML, JSON, and YAML.
Continue ReadingReading a datetime with miliseconds into an Oracle DATE
26 Aug 2020
While fetching information from Instructure’s Bridge learning management system API, I noticed that their course completion timestamps include miliseconds (e.g. 2020-06-30T08:19:16.413-07:00). I needed to load this value into a DATE-typed column in an Oracle database table.
Choosing a headless CMS without losing your head
24 Aug 2020
Snap judgments about whether I’d ask my grandparents to use a variety of content management systems (CMSes) popular in the world of static website management:
Continue ReadingWhy do bloggers love Markdown? Why use MDX? And other notes from MDXConf 2020
24 Aug 2020
Live-notetaking from MDXConf below.
Continue ReadingQu'est-ce qu'un générateur de site statique ?
18 Aug 2020
Dans les temps anciens, pour télécharger mon site web BestKatie.com vers son serveur, j’ai composé à la main un dossier de fichiers du type .html pour servir comme des « pages » du site. Je ne veux jamais plus répéter un tel effort.
Qu'est-ce que l'hébergement web statique ?
18 Aug 2020
Avant de devenir développeuse, j’ai eu un site web personnel. Disons que c’était sur http://www.BestKatie.com. Je ne l’ai pas construit avec un constructeur de site web tel que Squarespace ou Wix.
What is a static site generator?
18 Aug 2020
In ancient times, I’d hand-write a folder full of .html-typed files and upload them to a directory katie on a web server, where they’d become my site’s “web pages.” I never want to do that again.
What is static web hosting?
18 Aug 2020
Long before becoming a programmer, I had a personal web site. I was definitely already a nerd. Let’s say it was at http://www.BestKatie.com. I didn’t make it with a site builder like Squarespace or Wix.
Heroku live previews for Gatsby + Sanity sites
17 Aug 2020
I said previously that I wouldn’t use Gatsby Cloud’s free tier for hosting the “live preview” instance of a Gatsby site coupled with Sanity CMS because I didn’t find its usage quotas generous enough for handing over to a content author.
Today I’ll show you how to deploy a Gatsby site in “develop” mode to Heroku so that you can host a lovely site at https://preview.yoursite.com.
Update: at GatsbyConf 2021, Gatsby Cloud seems to have lifted the quotas sufficiently on their free tier to hand a small site over to a content author.
According to my friends, anyway. I haven’t been back to try it myself.
But in case that saves you time…
