Julien Melissas

Julien Melissas


This is my blog.


I can’t promise anything, but I hope to write in here about Code, Music, Food, Cars, Life, and other stuff. Enjoy!

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Goals for 2015

Posted on January 1st, 2015.

Hey there! I know I don’t blog enough (see below), and that’s sad. However, I did think it would be nice to quickly write up a post with some quick goals for 2015 for my own reference, and maybe to inspire some others! I’d like to be able to come back next year and see how well I did. Work/Life Balance: This is the main...

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Simple Bootstrap Shortcodes Plugin

Posted on November 22nd, 2014.

For any of you Roots developers out there, or really anyone who has a WordPress theme that uses Bootstrap 3, this little plugin that I created might be helpful.

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Slides from WordCamp Raleigh 2014

Posted on November 8th, 2014.

Hope you enjoyed the presentation at #wcraleigh. I covered the Roots starter theme in a talk titled "Roots: The starter theme that will make you a better developer".

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Setting the alt attribute from an ACF image object

Posted on August 24th, 2014.

You want to make sure your site always has an alt attribute for every single IMG tag for usability reasons, right? Yes. The answer to that question is yes. This is how to get one with ACF, without having to fill in the alt field for every single media object.

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No Gutter Column Trick for Bootstrap

Posted on August 7th, 2014.

Recently I had a need to have a default grid in Bootstrap, but also on the homepage I needed to have 4 boxes that butted right up against each other. I came up with a handy .no-gutters class, which has some pretty basic CSS, that you apply to your .row tag holding your columns. Regular Bootstrap version below (with kittens!): No gutters:...

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Do you have a Retina MacBook Pro?

Posted on June 27th, 2014.

This is by-far the best computer I’ve ever owned. I came from a 13″ MacBook Pro with the optical drive replaced with an SSD, and 8GB of RAM. That computer was great. Fast, strong, sturdy, just about everything was awesome. Then I bought my late 2013 15″ rMBP. I decided to move up screen sizes so I could put more code on...

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Poliça – Live

Posted on June 25th, 2014.

Two drummers is better than one I guess. Maybe I should clone myself.

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My slides from WordCamp Asheville 2014

Posted on June 1st, 2014.

Hey all! Hope you enjoyed my presentation at #wcavl. For those who don't know - I spoke about "Building better websites through Collaboration, Communication, and Consistency."

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Preparing for WordCamp

Posted on May 30th, 2014.

WordCamp is officially underway! Sitting here teaching the newbs at our PreCamp really got me thinking – this is kickass. The organizers I’ve worked with have been awesome. We did something that not only sold out, but it’s running so smooth, and we’re going to have a really good time!   My Talk…...

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Super Easy Breakfast Salad

Posted on May 23rd, 2014.

It's all about the mayo in the eggs.