Inspired-Musings.com

Inspired to blog about current events, politics, food/wine/beer and of course technology and web development.
June 9, 2017
why learning core JavaScript is still important

The big deal now and the last several years with JavaScript is the modern frameworks. The most popular being Angular JS, React JS and Vue JS . It seems like every posting you see for a front-end web developer position wants you to have hard-core experience with one of these frameworks. (Mostly Angular, but some […]

Read More
June 5, 2017
The death of grunge

The early 1990's were an interesting time. The economy was bad. America was at War in Iraq with the gulf war, George H.W. Bush was President, and I was a young adult recently out of college and struggling to find myself. I was young, unsure of what I wanted in life and my career, and […]

Read More
May 16, 2017
WordPress REST API 101

I have recently been exploring the REST API plugin for WordPress and how it works, and why it is such a big deal, as I've been hearing for a while that the WP Rest API is "a game changer" in the web development world. Of course, as a web developer, we hear this every month […]

Read More
May 5, 2017
College Basketball: One and Done - The Pros and Cons

I am a big college basketball fan. I live in arguably the best area for college basketball in the country, the Raleigh/Durham area of North Carolina. In this area, we have powerhouses in Men's college basketball, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina. There is also NC. State University, which used to be more […]

Read More
March 9, 2017
House Bill 2 a year later - now even dumber than ever

It's been almost a year since the North Carolina general assembly passed the controversial, stupid and discriminatory House Bill 2 (or HB2) also infamously known as the "bathroom bill". Since the bill passed in late March 2016, millions of lives of innocent bible thumping North Carolinians have been saved from evil transgender terrorist attacking and […]

Read More
February 11, 2017
The dreaded "C" word and the inspiring "C" word

"Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul. " -Jim Valvano Cancer is often a death sentence. Sometimes sooner, sometimes later. Many do survive and defeat cancer, so a diagnosis doesn’t mean a 100% death sentence. Those who […]

Read More
January 17, 2017
Content is King when it comes to SEO

When it comes to SEO content is king. Not just any content will do though. You need to have the right content pertinent to your business and marketing efforts and you need to ensure that content is filled with keywords in the right places. Visits are definitely important for your website, but it is not […]

Read More
January 11, 2017
WordPress vs. Drupal overview

WordPress and Drupal are two common open-source Content Management Systems. By open source I mean they are free to download and use, and they are powered by PHP and MySQL on the back-end. These systems are constantly evolving and being improved upon by a community of developers. WordPress was started way back in the dark […]

Read More
January 7, 2017
Welcome Roy Cooper, a governor for us all!

The Good Roy Cooper was recently elected the governor of North Carolina and he is the best choice to get the state back on track after helping to repeal HB2, and bring back businesses and entertainment events that left the state due to HB2 overall his leadership will make North Carolina great again (MNCGA). My […]

Read More
January 1, 2017
so long 2016, welcome 2017!

2016 was not the best year for me. In a lot of ways, 2016 was like taking a step backward as opposed to moving forward. 2016 was also a bad year for my home state of North Carolina. A discriminatory law was passed by the state legislature early in the year called HB2. I felt […]

Read More
linkedin facebook pinterest youtube rss twitter instagram facebook-blank rss-blank linkedin-blank pinterest youtube twitter instagram