The Value of Peer Review
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No matter your position, your tenure, or your experience, you should always have someone else double check your code.
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jQuery and Cross-site Scripting
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Never trust user input, even if it’s coming from an allegedly trustworthy source.
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Make Outrageous Promises – and Keep Them!
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Making an outrageous promise to lure in consumers is one thing – when they discover you lied, your brand equity and goodwill drops into the trash. Keeping that promise is something else entirely.
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Software: Cautionary Tales
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Sometimes we only learn from personal experience. Learn from my mistakes so you don’t have to live through them yourself.
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Diversity of Experience
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Surround yourself with as many voices different than yours as you can. This diversity of experience and perspective will help sharpen and refine your own.
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Modular Code
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Composer is a potential solution for theme/plugin dependencies in WordPress. But it will take some time before we flesh out the solution fully.
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WordPress Database Encryption
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How reasonable is the suggestion that WordPress encrypt its database? Really?
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Clean up your clutter
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Global variables are bad, clutter your code, and can be a major stumbling project in terms of project maintainability. Don’t use them.
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Be Aware of Context
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Nothing is more annoying than a customer service representative responding out of context to a customer concern.