Windows Store app development setup

UWP apps have a bunch of extra setup options that typical WPF does not have.  This article either explains or points to resources that could help.  Most, if not all, of the focus will be on the package.appxmanifest file that is generated with defaults upon creating a...

Installing Windows

Every couple years, it seems I have a need to install a fresh Windows operating system.  In the past, it’s been about refreshing.  The new Windows recovery option helps with that a bit.  However, recently I’ve purchased a new HP computer and it came...

Compiling LESS Files

Recently, I gave up on using Eclipse in favor of NetBeans.  I had also considered Visual Studio for my Windows machine, but NetBeans was easy to setup a project that did not get in the way of the folder hierarchy and worked well with my local WAMP setup. As I started...

Packaging plugins with themes

As I develop a new theme, I want to package plugins with my theme.  Normally, plugins are installed under wp-content/plugins – but if you are distributing your theme, you need a clean, WordPress-familiar way of distributing the corresponding plugins as well...