These days, every person you meet has a blog. Be it for sharing their personal thoughts and feelings or to promote a business or company, blogs have become more and more popular in the last decade and they are a great way to get your message, whatever that may be, out to the community. Although anyone can have a blog and cultivate an audience over time, there are a few ways to make your blog stand out from the crowd. Finding the right balance of unique yet relatable content can be tricky, especially when you are first starting your blog, […]
Why You Should Hire a WordPress Developer For Your Business
Of all the web platforms available today, WordPress is one of the fastest and easiest tools for creating a functional website in minutes. All you have to do is install the CMS and start adjusting your look to fit your needs. It plays a key role in the effectiveness of your Internet marketing and the overall growth of your business. Websites created through WordPress are effective and interesting marketing tools. Usually, this is a predefined free website that companies of all scale mark their web presence by enabling them to display varieties of products they sell and the services they […]
7 Ways To Truly Understand Your Target Audience
As a marketer or blogger, one of the most important factors to your success is how well you understand your target audience. They have all this data and metrics that give them data on their audience. They don’t, however, truly know their target audience. They don’t know what makes them tick. They don’t know what motivates them to go to their pages and read their content and that is where they really miss the mark. Your first realization should be that your audience is made up of actual human beings with all the dimensions that come with the human experience. […]
Testing React Components With Enzyme
So far in my series of posts on React development for WordPress, I’ve covered React basics, create-react-app and testing with Jest. Jest is useful for testing the rendering of React components. There are a few big buckets of functionality we have not looked at testing yet. Specifically how the internal state of stateful component changes, DOM events, and isolated testing of component class methods. Jest alone can’t do that. Using Enzyme For DOM Testing I hope it’s clear now how Jest, with the default test renderer, can do a lot of test coverage quickly. A snapshot covers one component, with […]
How to Think like an Agency to Become a Better Developer
My company, Hallam, attended a whole company outing to the Google HQ in Dublin last year, and part of that involved a talk about the “Agency of the Future.” The talk focused on how changes in the labor market and the evolution of technology will require the development community (and other related digital communities) need to evolve from optimizers to consultants. In this article, I will branch out from the regular technical blogs published on this excellent website and start to discuss soft skills and behaviors for developers that will help the community rise from being optimizers to consultants. It’ll […]

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