KF Development

Fixing things, setting things up, configuring things. Figuring out why the thing used to work but now it doesn't. We tinker and hack. From new sites, green field development, legacy fixups, automation, migration from one system to another, we do it. We do IT depoloyments, networking, web devlopment. We do business consultation, brand development, social media.

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LAMP Stack

Web development stacks are the layers of software that serve an application to the client, generally the operating system that runs the web server, database and scripting language.

I am most comfortable in LAMP environments. LAMP stands for Linux Apache Mysql Php, which the software stack powering much of the internet. There are lots of other stacks, but LAMP/LEMP is my jam. LEMP is Linux (E)nginx Mysql Php. Nginx is a high performance web server designed for proxying, caching and load balancing.

LAMP is an acronym for Linux Apache Mysql Php, which a software stack powering much of the internet.

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One could use this setup to write ~~a blog~~ short updates. It's best for text, but for the occasional image the recommendation is to use the loading="lazy" attribute, so images get loaded only when needed:

Skills Merit Badge Set

Here are some of the many jobs, tasks and skills of my working history:

Wordpress:
- Plugin and theme creation and modification
- Creation of child themes
- Add media collections to wordrpess
- Add custom image sizes to wordpress
- Content creaton with Elementor pagebuilder
- ACF, Advanced Custom Fields. I've done a lot of work with this.
- WP-Cli -- the command line wordpress interface
- Creation of custom posts types
- Creation and extension of custom widgets
Data, Databases, mysql:
- Write php command line scripts to migrate data between platforms
- Database schema design and creation
- Export data from mysql to text file
- Import data from text file to MS Excell
- Import data text file to mysql database
HTML 4/5
- Create html layouts in html 4/5
- Write html both as vanilla html and as js template language such as nunjucks
- CSS -- Cascading Style Sheets
- Use php to generate dynamic html
Other stuff:
- Build lists and source hardware, make systems recommendatatons
- Research things I didn't know
- Use office software like Word, Excel, Star Office, Libre Office, Google Docs, Sheets
- Use FOSS software alternatives as much as possible, such as Gimp, Inkscape, Open Office, Apache, Firefox
- Use Linux as primary os for the vast majority of his millenium
- CLI one-liners (for i in *.jpg; do convert -scale $size "$i" "scaled/$i"; done)
- Use rsync to sync and migrate large file systems
- PHP PDF Lib -- create pages in php that save as pdf files
- javascript
- jquery
- AJAX
- Create php apis to feed json data to js fetch api
- Familiar with GoogleMaps api via jquery and vanilla js

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