I’ve been developing ContentOracle AI Chat, a plugin that adds a retrieval-augmented ai chatbot to WordPress websites for the past six months. Today, I’d like to take a look at the main features of my new plugin, and share some lessons learned and problems solved in the process of building a powerful retrieval-augmented chatbot for […]
I am building an Laravel web app to help me generate annotations for images. I will be using these annotated images to train computer vision object detection models. As a part of that app, I need to a way to store images uploaded by users so that I can later go in and add object […]
It’s been a while since I showcased one of my web development clients here. But, that drought comes to an end today with my biggest client yet: Boyert’s Greenhouse and Farm. Boyert’s Greenhouse and Farm is a family-owned and operated home and garden retailer based in Medina, Ohio. Always full of beautiful plants and unique […]
If you have ever developed custom blocks for WordPress, you have surely run into the problem of applying block styles to specific html elements of your block. Maybe you want to apply a text color to one p tag in your block, but not another. Or maybe, you want the border color block support to […]
So you want to set up a new website for your business, church, or other organization? Great! Setting up a website is a critical step in the establishment of any organization. One of the most important steps when setting up a website is setting up a domain name to point to your website. A domain […]
As the developer of several WordPress Plugins, including Bible Buddy, StoragePress Self-Storage, and ContentOracle AI Chat, I have learned a lot about building plugins for WordPress. The most glaring among the things I have learned is how ugly a plugin’s codebase becomes as the plugin grows. There is no standard for how a plugin should […]
Laravel is a powerful framework that offers a whole suite of built-in goodies meant to help enormously speed up application development. Blade, its built-in templating engine, and Eloquent, the ORM it ships with, are two of the most especially useful utilities Laravel brings to the table. As you build apps in Laravel, you will inevitably […]
Do you remember learning about inheritance in school? It may have seemed needlessly complex for the projects you worked on at the time. However, as you begin working on bigger, more complex projects, making wise use of this object-oriented design principal can vastly cut down on the size of your codebase, making maintenance and development […]
What is GraphQL GraphQL is a powerful, expressive query language for APIs, as well as a runtime for using existing data to respond to these queries. Often viewed as the successor to REST APIs, it provides a concise and easily human-readable interface for querying your API for data and tasks. GraphQL offers a number of […]
GraphQL is an expressive query language for APIs. Developed by Facebook in 2012 and open-sourced in 2015, it is seen as the successor to REST APIs by many in the modern API development space. It deserves this recognition, as it offers a host of tangible improvements over traditional REST APIs. Read on to learn about […]
