Upgrading Drupal and Internal Server Error 500

So you haven’t worked on a client’s Drupal site in over a year and they are way overdue for a core update and plugin updates. You upload the core updates and blamo – site throws  Internal Server Error 500. Easy, easy fix – if you overwrite the .htaccess file don’t forget .htaccess  has one little Read more…

WordPress Rotated Media Files on Upload

Having a nice camera has led me to not use my iPhone for photos but recently I have been using the iPhone  more and more for those quick pics I don’t want to bust out the old DLSR for. Unfortunately no one tells you that the iPhone has its own JPG markup that will actually Read more…

Buena Brewing

Buena Brewing

Blog showcasing small batch beers. My ongoing experimentation with tweaking the 2012 Theme is still going strong. Check it out.

CRI Landscape

CRI Landscape

CRI Landcape specializes in hardscpes and landscape in Ventura and Santa Barbara. The site’s focus is all about showcasing it’s high end work through imagery. Check out the site.

Adding a post category class to the body tag in WordPress

I always forget how to add classes to the body tag in WordPress. You can use this code for generating any kind of class. Just replace the foreach statement with the variable you want to pull from the page. add_filter(‘body_class’,’add_category_to_single’); function add_category_to_single($classes) { if (is_single() ) { global $post; foreach((get_the_category($post->ID)) as $category) { // add Read more…

Programmers: Stop calling yourself engineers

Interesting article in The Atlantic about how software engineers aren’t really engineers. I wholly agree. I would  consider myself a developer yes, but engineer no. I would say in my 15 plus years in this “industry” the QA side alone would disqualify software, web development or app development from being considered a piece of engineering. Read more…

Cypher Genomics

Cypher Genomics

Complete overhaul of site. Conceptualization, redesign, structure and wireframing by Russell Creative while all custom themeing and implementation by the Dotbrigade. Check out site.

Cycle 28

Cycle 28

The client had a very specific vision with approaching how to sell her subscription service on the internet. There would be three levels of subscriptions offering the same products from different brands, while being able to choose different sizes, while also having different quantity thresholds for each subscription level. Luckily leveraging WooCommerce and writing a Read more…

Bionano Genomics

Bionano Genomics

Redesign of homepage, header and footer in conjunction with Russell Creative. Complete overhaul of how pages handle data. In the past pages had static data. Now each section uses dynamic data that can now be pulled into other sections of the site if need be. Design by Russell Creative with Dotbrigade handling the WordPress implementation. Read more…

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