In Magento 2, anytime you want to write custom PHP code, you must first create a “module” — which is where your PHP code will live. For this example, our module shall be named “MyCompany\MyCommandModule” and our PHP code will be written in the MyCommand.php file. Create this folder structure…

While the regular Google Maps feature will not let you do multiple locations and the Google Maps API costs money, there is a 3rd alternative that is FREE and very easy to set up. Here is how you can obtain a custom Google Maps HTML embed with multiple locations and…

Whether it’s retail, manufacturing, wholesaling, or any supply-chain organization that ships/receives product, labels are a huge part of how things get done. When I first started in manufacturing, I was a little overwhelmed by the number of different labels, barcodes, numbers, etc. …

Last year I read 42 books…..all hard/paperback books. How I accomplished this was extremely simple….I truly believe anyone can do this. Here is a summary of how I did it, and how you can do it too! Microhabits I will start with the most useful tip: microhabits. If you don’t…

(For Non-Technical People) Software development can be an incredibly mysterious and frustrating process...not only for the developers making it, but also the end users who use it. My goal today is to explain the two most common ways that we build software, and why one of them is terrible and the other is…

Motivation, even in its greatest moments, is a sugar-high. I think software developers know this more than anyone….because motivation alone will never ship large projects. The first few weeks of a large project are tons o’ fun. Nonstop caffeine, diagrams, and clacking mechanical keyboards. But towards the end, when the…

Quick-and-Easy Reference: (If you’ve done this before, and just need a quick reference) Run these 3 commands: ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C “you@yourEmail.com” eval “$(ssh-agent -s)” ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa Go to Github.com. Click your profile icon (top-right), select “Settings”. On the left, click the “SSH and GPG Keys” tab. Click “New SSH…

Is it really worth it? For most jobs, I would argue it is worth it to learn keyboard shortcuts. For programmers, the productivity boost is undeniable. Not only does it save time, but the keyboard is actually more precise than the mouse. In addition to saving time, it takes less mental energy/focus. The idea is…

Combining Parallel Arrays (in PHP) I was today years old when I discovered you can pass multiple arrays to PHP’s array_map() function. 😶 For example, lets say you have two parallel arrays: $firstNames and $lastNames. You can use array_map() to combine them into a single array of $fullNames. Here’s how: …