Peter Tasker on creating blocks right now:

It’s fairly straightforward these days to get set up with the WP CLI ‘scaffold’ command. This command will set up a WordPress theme or plugin with a ‘blocks’ folder that contains the PHP and base CSS and JavaScript required to create a custom block. The only drawback that I noticed is that the JavaScript uses the old ES5 syntax rather than modern ESNext. Modern JavaScript allows us to write more concise

… Read article “How to Create Custom WordPress Editor Blocks in 2020”

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WordPress 5.4 was released not so long ago and, along with other improvements and bug fixes, it introduced a feature called Block Variations. I had a chance to use it on one of my recent projects and am so pleasantly surprised with how smart this feature is. I actually think it hasn’t received the attention it deserves, which is why I decided to write this article.

What is a Block Variation?

Block Variations allow developers to define instances of existing … Read article “How to Use Block Variations in WordPress”

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The other day in “Static or not?” I said:

[…] serving HTML from a CDN is some feat.

What I meant is that serving resources like images, CSS, and JavaScript from a CDN is fairly straightforward. The industry at large has been doing that for many years. An asset with a URL can be moved to a CDN and served from it. Changes to that asset are usually handled by changing the URL (e.g. style.324535.css, style.css?v=345434 or the like) … Read article “Static Hoisting”

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MDX is a killer feature for things like blogs, slide decks and component documentation. It allows you to write Markdown without worrying about HTML elements, their formatting and placement while sprinkling in the magic of custom React components when necessary.

Let’s harness that magic and look at how we can customize MDX by replacing Markdown elements with our own MDX components. In the process, we’ll introduce the concept of “shortcodes” when using those components.

As a heads up, the code … Read article “Working With MDX Custom Elements and Shortcodes”

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The accessibility trick is using <input type="range"> and wrestling it into shape with CSS rather than giving up and re-building it with divs or whatever and later forget about accessibility.

The most clever example uses an angled linear-gradient background making the input look like a volume slider where left = low and right = high.

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Michelle Barker notes that it’s been a heck of a week for us CSS layout nerds.

1. Firefox has long had the best DevTools for CSS Grid, but Chrome is about to catch up and go one bit better by visualizing grid line numbers and names.
2. Firefox supports gap for display: flex, which is great, and now Chrome is getting that too.
3. Firefox is trying out an idea for masonry layout.

Direct Link to Article — Permalink… Read article “Exciting Things on the Horizon For CSS Layout”

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It’s probably one part coronavirus, one part new-fancy-video setup, and one part “hey this is good for CodePen too,” but I’ve been doing more videos lately. It’s nice to be back in the swing of that for a minute. There’s something fun about coming back to an old familiar workflow.

Where do the videos get published? I’m a publish-on-your-own site kinda guy, as I’m sure you know, so there is a whole Videos section of this site where every … Read article “I’m getting back to making videos”

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Compared to the past, modern browsers have become really efficient at rendering the tangled web of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code a typical webpage provides. It takes a mere milliseconds to render the code we give it into something people can use.

What could we, as front-end developers, do to actually help the browser be even faster at rendering? There are the usual best practices that are so easy to forget with our modern tooling — especially in cases where … Read article “Let’s Take a Deep Dive Into the CSS Contain Property”

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India's cricket captain Virat Kohli and his actor wife Anusha Sharma are keeping themselves busy during lockdown by playing monopoly and by taking adorable selfies.

Having competed against quality cricketers, the 2005 Ashes stands out as special series for both Australian legends.

Cricketer-turned-politician Gautam Gambhir seems to be making most of the lockdown across the country. The lockdown across India was extended till May 3 to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic and East Delhi MP Gambhir is getting to spending time with his kids at home, even though they are not letting him catch up with his sleep.

In this webinar, the tax lawyers of Minden Gross LLP will provide a practical overview of income splitting strategies available today. This webinar will review in detail the various attribution rules devised to thwart income planning, and guide participants to strategies still available for safe and effective income splitting.

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1669, May 12, 2015

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

, February 04, 2015
, February 17, 2015

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1525, January 28, 2015

The 2014 T1 season is almost upon us, so it's time for tax return preparers to get updated again on all the current issues that may impact their clients' tax returns. This webinar will get you in position to prepare your clients' 2014 personal tax returns, and will review some of the more commonly experienced issues faced by tax preparers.

Join Erin Swint, a tax partner with Squire and Company, for a thorough overview of the key changes from the past year that will impact personal tax return filing including the 2013 Federal Budget, CRA announcements and relevant court cases. Erin will also discuss some other tax matters that are integral to personal taxation as well as administrative issues related to filing returns.

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1708, January 20, 2015

Objectives

 
The End User course content focuses on the key features that all employees use when entering time and expense transactions, updating the status of a project and finding client contact information. All of these features are designed to make sure that management has the most up-to-date information to make decisions.

Topics

·         Enter billable time or expense transactions in 30 seconds or less

·         Enter nonbillable time, expense, CPE and marketing transactions

·         Update project status when entering time and expenses

·         Review, edit and release time and expense transactions

·         Generate a reimbursable expense report

·         Review summary or detailed timesheet history

·         Monitor client and project alerts

·         Manage and review personal due dates

·         Look up client information

Attendees

 
All staff that enter time, expenses, lookup contact information, and update project status

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1244, January 15, 2015

Objectives

 
The Biller course content focuses on billing practices and features that help to ensure timely, profitable billing. We follow the philosophy that having WIP, prior Invoice and A/R information at your fingertips saves time and money. Keeping management up to date on the status and progress of client accounts is the fundamental philosophy that drives the course. This course includes hands-on computer training.

Topics

·         Select clients to bill

·         Bill related clients (client engagements) together

·         Generate a Quick Bill

·         Correct WIP

·         Analyze, Select and Adjust WIP

·         Bill by Category or project

·         Use Billing Agreements

·         Partial Bill (apply a write up or write down to a specific WIP transaction)

·         Format invoices

·         Generate a Progress Bill

·         Generate Fixed Fee Bills

·         Review billing decisions on-screen

·         Print or email invoices in a batch

Attendees

All staff that select clients to bill, make billing decisions, correct or transfer WIP, generate, format, or process invoices, and review and approve bills.

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1246, January 15, 2015

This Webinar will focus on how to prepare and submit your T-Slips using the new interface with FormMaster. Plus how to navigate around in the program when searching for extraneous forms.

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1699, January 14, 2015
ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1699, January 21, 2015

Objectives

The Administrator course content focuses on features in the Administration, Accounts Receivable, Reports and Report Writer modules. By learning how to work properly within these modules, you can better manage the program on a day-to-day basis. This course includes hands-on computer training.

Topics

·         Create new clients and prospects

·         Create custom fields

·         Maintain up to date client contact information

·         Lock releasing of time

·         Edit and update released time

·         Use Batch Time Entry

·         Correct WIP and update invoices

·         Select a Lock Reconciliation Date and WIP Approval date

·         Determine Security Settings for employees

·         Set up Alerts for assigned employees

·         Complete Year End Procedures

·         Use the Administrative Utilities

·         Enter A/R transactions

·         Apply Later Distributions (prepayments) to invoices

·         Update, Correct and Search A/R

·         Print A/R Statements and Dunning Letters

·         Calculate and update finance charges

·         Generate firm reports

·         Create and process report Queues

Attendees

Staff responsible for managing day-to-day operations in Practice Management, including clients, contacts, security, time, billing, A/R and generating reports.

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1245, January 14, 2015

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1392, January 13, 2015

This course focuses on using features within Practice Management to better track your marketing efforts.
The content helps you determine how your employees attain new business. The need for up to date information
concerning leads and prospects, as well as tracking Marketing Methods, Referral Sources and employee
marketing efforts drive the course content. The course also covers the use of mailing lists to generate
quick labels and letters.

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1528, January 08, 2015

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1554, January 06, 2015

This is a test seminar.

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

Fake City, ON, December 25, 2014

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1670, December 18, 2014
ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1670, January 21, 2015
ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1670, February 03, 2015
ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1670, February 10, 2015

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1371, December 18, 2014
ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1371, January 21, 2015
ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1371, January 26, 2015
ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1371, February 03, 2015
ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1371, February 10, 2015

CCH Portal



The CCH Portal's bi-directional file exchange capabilities make it easy for you to securely deliver and receive client documents, facilitating collaboration and supporting the upload of even the largest files. In this webinar, we will show you how CCH Portal can help you and your clients to:

• Access vital documents immediately from any location with internet access via a secure, private repository.
• Organize documents electronically in cabinets and folders that mirror the way you store paper documents.
• Easily upload documents of all sizes without relying on an FTP server.
• Designate files as read-only or read/write for easier access and greater security.
• Check out documents to prevent other users from editing them while they are being updated.
• Maintain previous file versions in the document history.
• Search, filter, and display documents by file type, title, creator, keyword and more.

Register now for this FREE webinar and discover how CCH Portal can help you protect your clients' privacy and gain a competitive edge by delivering a new level of client service.

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

, December 17, 2014
, January 07, 2015
, January 14, 2015
, January 21, 2015
, January 28, 2015

In this 90-minute webinar, we will show you how to get around in the software and what functions are available to make you more productive. Includes an in depth look at Family Coupling, File attachments and the Pathfinder, what they are and how to use them to improve your productivity. This session is intended for those who are new to the Cantax software and those who would like a refresher of all the menu items and their function.

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1698, December 17, 2014
ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1698, January 16, 2015
ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1698, January 23, 2015
ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1698, January 28, 2015

CCH Scan is a paperless software solution that effortlessly and electronically takes all of the disorganized and unsorted client information, determines what each item is, and outputs the organized documents to a single, organized, and bookmarked PDF file.

This webinar will provide an overview on the use of the product and illustrate how it:

• Delegates the work required to organize T1 source documents to an admin person
• Improves the tax preparation workflow by automatically retrieving the PDF related to the return.
• Speeds up the data entry and review process
• Reduces the risk of errors
• Reduces office space required to store paper documents.
• Reduces time required to retrieve work papers (eg. CRA’s EFILE requests in the summer).
• Saves money - no need to buy additional expensive software to improve scanning image.
• Reduces time for manual bookmarking process for those who are currently scanning.
• Can be used for all source document scanning (front-end scanning)

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

, December 17, 2014
, January 07, 2015
, January 14, 2015
, January 21, 2015
, January 28, 2015

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

, December 17, 2014

Our Best Practices consultation session is structured as a 2-day course.
 
Designed to ensure a smooth implementation, a knowledgeable consultant will guide your firm's implementation leaders through important decisions within the software.

Through the first day of this course, new customers gain a head start on using the software to its full potential while existing customers benefit from a detailed
review of their current use of ProSystem fx Practice Management.  Both new and existing customers learn how to implement CCH's recommended best practices.

Day two provides a more detailed look at the Implementation Checklist resulting in a customize Best Practices document that will suit your firm's workflow
and organizational structure. Additional time will also be available to discuss more complex technical, procedural and functional implementation issues.

Topics

    - Assess implementation goals
    - Discuss setup items you need to complete for a successful conversion
    - Use the implementation checklist to create a to-do list for conversion and implementation
    - Make assignments and set due dates in the implementation checklist
    - Begin updating the Best Practices guide to build best practices specific to your company
    - Ensuring an in-depth understanding of the implementation checklist and related best practices documents
    - Customizing a "Policies and Procedures Guide"
    - Working through complete multi-office or large-scale implementations

Attendees

Practice Management Champions Team, which should include representation from each department that will use the program.

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1334, December 16, 2014

Join our CCH trainer for this interactive session on improving your Search Techniques using CCH Online platform - a great learning opportunity!This session is for those CRA clients who are comfortable with the platform, and would like to delve a little deeper into researching.You will learn more sophisticated methods of Boolean searching which will, in turn save you time and energy.Have you been searching for something specific, or not quite getting the answers with the searches you've conducted? Please submit examples that we can use to tailor our session to your specific needs.Please send your name, e-mail and the date and time of the session you have registered for to: wisam.mshati@wolterskluwer.com and we will use those examples during the session.

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

, December 15, 2014

When it comes to side projects, micro-sites and one-off experiments, you don't need much to get started.

I re-learned an old design lesson from the humble toilet flusher. As new features are added to existing technologies, careful design is required to make their usage clear.

Problem-solving is an essential part of software development. Sometimes we get stuck on a particularly baffling problem, and this can feel frustrating and discouraging. The following are some strategies for getting yourself "unstuck."

Lately I've been using variables to plan out pure CSS timelines for complex animations. I built an SVG and CSS Rube Goldberg machine to put this technique to the test!

If you’ve ever had to review a PR where the only code change is adding a wrapper element, you’ll be familiar with the pain of reviewing what appears to be a massive change but is actually trivial.

A few serious breaches to the bandh network of the khazan extending from Carambolim and Mandur to Neura and Agasaim pose grave danger to villages in the area due to possibility of massive flooding.

The first Shramik special express train from Goa will leave on Friday carrying nearly a thousand passengers to Madhya Pradesh. The Konkan Railway has provided the coaches for the train which will have Gwalior as its destination station.

The revised terms for the new academic year 2019-20 issued by Goa University on May 5 will also be applicable for the bachelor of education, bachelor of physical education, bachelor of performing art, bachelor of social work, master of education and master of performing art programmes.

Goa waste management corporation (GWMC) has finalized the tender document to set up the over Rs 200cr garbage treatment plant at Bainguinim, Old Goa on a build own operate and transfer (BOOT) basis.