Python Test Engineer

About Craig

As a former Microsoft Certified DBA (SQL 2000), I have a strong interest in data integrity as well as using browser storage (IndexedDB) for robust and fast data retrieval.

I originally trained as an Accountant Technician, working freelance for a range of SMEs. This enables me to speak both business and development, bridging the gap between these two worlds, leading to a role as a Business Information Architect for a nationwide recycling company.

At this time, I am developing a range of incrementally functional Test Suites with documentation, videos and templates for developers and testers - Python Testing Framework.

My Github CV.

Speaking

I enjoy giving talks and workshops on WP-HTML, Web Components and Progressive Web Apps.

Talks previously given:

1. TALK: Offline and instant websites, aka Progressive Web Apps - AsyncJS, Brighton, September 2021.
2. LIGHTNING TALK: WordPress as a Micro Service to any framework - WordFest, July 2021.
3. TALK: WP REST API and Web Components => 100% Internet - WordCamp Santa Clarita, July 2021.
4. TALK: Web Components in WP, Gutenberg and as HTML plugins. - WordCamp North East Ohio, May 2021.
5. TALK: Leveraging the power or the WordPress REST API - WP Leeds, April 2021
6. WORKSHOP: WP REST API and you -> Best Friends Forever - WordCamp Greece, April 2021.
7. TALK: Web Components as Micro Apps - NDC London, Jan 2021.
8. TALK: Unifying frameworks with Web Components - Brighton AsyncJS, Nov 2020.
9. WORKSHOP: Progressive Web Apps Workshop (2hrs) - NDC Oslo, June 2020.
10. WORKSHOP: Web Components Workshop (2hrs) - NDC Oslo, June 2020.
11. WORKSHOP: Progressive Web Apps Workshop (2hrs) - Brighton WordUp, June 2020.
12. WORKSHOP: WordPress REST API with AJAX Forms and Pages - WordCamp Denver, June 2020.
13. WORKSHOP: WordPress REST API with AJAX Forms and Pages - WordCamp Kent, Ohio May 2020.
14. WORKSHOP: What is the WP REST API and how can I use it to make forms and pages that don’t need to do be reloaded? - WordUp Brighton May 2020.
15. WORKSHOP: WordPress REST API and AJAX Forms - WordCamp Geneva, March 2020 [EVENT CANCELLED due to virus concerns :( ]
16. TALK: WP-HTML: The marriage of WP and JS Frameworks for expansion, ubiquity and profit - WordCamp Vienna February 2020.
17. WORKSHOP: WordPress REST API - WordCamp Vienna, February 2020.
18. TALK: Progressive Web Apps - Brighton WordUp, November 2019.
19. TALK: Decoupled WordPress (code along style) - WordCamp Dublin, October 2019.
20. TALK: JWT and Authentication - WPHooked London, September 2019
21. TALK: Decoupled WordPress and WP Components - WordCamp Brighton, August 2019.

Portfolio

1. WordPress REST API and AJAX Forms and Pages opens up the possibility of WP being used 100% of the Internet, a topic I have spoken about at WordCamps and used in non-WP talks and workshops. I created an online course on creating REST APIs for pages and forms that do not need to be refreshed for commercial reasons as well as being able to offer a free resource to attendees at WordCamp workshops.
2. WP-HTML creates Custom HTML tags, (Web Components) that are part of the browser specifications. They have two powerful characteristics:

   1). They are fully encapsulated preventing bleeding out of CSS and JS, as well as having protocols for passing CSS and functionality between them and the web page. 2). Attributes in the the Custom HTML tag can be configured to be 'watched', so that when we change them programatically, they create a rerender of the tag.

   This site has a variety of Custom HTML tags, in a headless WordPress site. Combined with added functionality of using the Intersection Observer API, (lazy loading), and IndexedDB,( the browser's own database), to store posts locally for offline and near instant access, we can create a WP site that has all the modern day power of JS Frameworks, yet code our page semantically.

   By making use of certain events in the browser like page loaded or teh Browser Idel API, we can manage our local database of posts so that data is accessed locally rather than through network requests. Additionaly. the use of a Service Worker JS file, we can create a local web server, as it were, to increase our offline and near instant page load.

3. WP Plugin Boilerplate

   This is a YouTube video series with GitHub repo and pdf guide to set up the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate along with the following included in the app:

   1. Create admin pages links.
   2. Create a custom MySQL table and have some pre-made CRUD operations.
   3. Create a REST API. (I have an online course 'WP REST API for AJAX pages and forms', that is also given to attendees at WordCamp and MeetUp workshops and talks.)
   4. Create an admin form with image uploader that uses the REST API and WP-Nonce for security to upload events to the custom MySQL table.
   5. Admin list pages of events with edit and delete facilities using REST API.
   6. Creating of blank pages as a placeholder for demo JS, React and Svelte apps, using page_template_filter to have the HTML within the plugin rather than a custom page, thereby making the plugin and its pages self-contained.

4. wp-forms.co.uk Forms are a converstation with users. The base form has live validation, AJAX requests and error handling and styling. Use of other JS libraries such as RxJS Streams, React, and Svelte are also used to give the best possible user and developer experience.
5. Online Courses lists a number of courses on Udemy, (PWA or Offline Websites, WP REST API for AJAX Forms and Pages) as well as Web Components on YouTube.