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Freelancing Tips

How To Safely Update WordPress Plugins When There's No Staging Site

Travis Rodgers on Jul 20, 2020

A client asks you to update all their plugins, but there's no staging site to work to assure nothing breaks. How do you properly update their plugins in a safe manner? Years ago I did some contract for an agency out of Colorado. One of their managers asked me one ... Continue Reading

Conquering Life

How to Stay Excited and Fulfilled as a Software Developer Long Term

Travis Rodgers on Jun 24, 2020

How can developers keep from getting burnout? How we can keep from getting overly stressed or bored of the work we do and even align our dev careers with our life goals?! In this video, I'll discuss the three phases of EVERY software developer's career and how to navigate the ... Continue Reading

Coding Tutorials

How to Upgrade Git on RHEL7 and CentOS7

Travis Rodgers on May 21, 2020

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL7) comes with git 1.8. And git 1.8 is old and unusable in most situations. So how you do upgrade it. Well, with this script of course. Create a file: touch gitupgrade.shAnd add the following to it: yum -y remove git yum ... Continue Reading

Opinion

Learning to Code is Easy: Here's Why Many Fail

Travis Rodgers on May 15, 2020

Learning to code is EASY! But there are many who fail. How can these two both be true? Well, I believe that learning to code is easy, and by learning to code I mean learning enough to start applying for jobs. If you can follow just three steps in learning ... Continue Reading

Coding Tutorials

Learn Docker in One Hour: From Docker Desktop to Deployment

Travis Rodgers on May 13, 2020

A year ago I tried to learn Docker but just wasn't ready for it. The tutorials I tried to follow were too comprehensive and "theory-based."A year later I looked back and decided I would make a tutorial that would have been much more beneficial for me then. In this ... Continue Reading

Career Advancement

Your First Developer Job - 10 Things You Should Know

Travis Rodgers on Mar 23, 2020

So you've landed your first developer job .... or perhaps you've already started it. Here are 10 things you should know to help you succeed. It's been about a year now since I left the freelancing arena and joined the corporate world as a software developer. ⠀ It's had its ups and ... Continue Reading

Bangin Reviews

The Best Web Development Courses on Udemy (By Language)

Travis Rodgers on Mar 10, 2020

Udemy is still one of my favorite sites to level or learn something new. In this post, I'll open up my account and share what I think are the Best Web Development Courses on Udemy, by language. If you're a developer I bet you have a purchased a lot of ... Continue Reading

Career Advancement

Top 8 Places to Find Developer Jobs Online

Travis Rodgers on Feb 05, 2020

Landing that first developer job can be hard, but knowing the right places to look can help. Here are the top 8 places to find developer jobs online. I’ll say it again, landing that first developer job can be difficult. Employers take a chance on you by hiring you ... Continue Reading

Coding Tutorials

Manage Docker Easily With VS Code

Travis Rodgers on Jan 26, 2020

I manage Docker tasks almost exclusively using VS Code. I can visualize my Docker images, containers, etc., and can run all commands, "one-click," with it. Here's how. For most Docker newbies, we have to look up commands a lot. Docker build, Docker run, Docker exec, Docker inspect, etc. We also ... Continue Reading

Opinion

When Everyone Seems Smarter Than You - Junior Developers

Travis Rodgers on Jan 24, 2020

Junior developer, do you ever feel like everyone in the room seems smarter than you? Other developers are breezing through the day while you're sweating bullets? Let's discuss. I'm thankful that the 2020 software world is gladly hiring self-taught programmers. Computer science degrees, while nice, are no longer required to ... Continue Reading