Adding markers to a satellite image
In the previous blog posts, I have shown you how to add a marker for a GPS coordinate to an SVG image. In this case, we calculated the x/y pixel position and have drawn an SVG circle or marker path. … Read more →
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Geo coordinates to pixel positions – build a map with your own images
This blog post will be a start of a little post series. For a project, I recently had to add markers of cities to a map of Germany. I did that manually in the past, but as the maps has … Read more →
Fatal errors on WordPress with PHP 8+ and an incorrect translation
Last week, I got a report about a broken site, that caught me a bit by surprise. I’ll recreate the issue with a dummy plugin here, so show what went wrong. When navigating to the page with the error, this … Read more →
The “text-underline-offset” and other lesser known CSS properties for links
Working for a larger agency has many benefits. One of them is that you work with people, that know a lot more about many things then you do. I usually read commits from my colleagues to see how they do … Read more →
Create a dynamic iCalendar with blog posts
A small local website used a booking calendar plugin. Those bookings were then copied manually to an online calendar, where the team would have an overview on the bookings. Unfortunately, the booking calendar plugin didn’t have any feature to dynamically … Read more →
Use different Git settings for personal and company projects
If you are working for an agency or for your own clients, but you also work on personal projects, you might want to use different Git settings for these two types of projects. When setting up your machine to work … Read more →
Run your custom code only once in an action
WordPress offers a lot of hooks you can use to interact with code. Filters are used to change a value of a passed variable, and you usually want to change this value every time this filter is applied. But for … Read more →
Update all composer dependencies to their latest versions
If you code in PHP, changes are very high that you are using composer to manage your dependencies. At one point, you will add a dependency. The version you’ve first installed can be updated with a single command, but it … Read more →
Work and travel – or how coding on a train can be a challenge
Today I want to share a different type of story. When I travel in Germany, I usually always take the train. If some of you ever travelled from Berlin westbound will probably know, that as soon as you leave Berlin, … Read more →
Adding form specific Gravity Form hooks to your code
Those of you who read my blog regularly will probably know, that I use Gravity Forms in many projects. I really like the huge feature set of the plugin (and it’s add-ons), but even more than that, the possibilities to … Read more →