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When I was 6, I wanted to be an architect. I loved drawing, enjoyed visiting cool buildings, and had the odd drive to be a part of something bigger. I checked books out from the library, talked up the idea with adults, and even took a crack at drawing up blueprints for the first house
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I write software for a living. Not something I ever expected to do for a career, but it happened and I’m fairly good at it. I also write software as a hobby. Different languages and platforms – working with a diverse set of tools makes me a better developer. I also give away most of the
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Last month I read a fantastic business book, Start with Why, by Simon Sinek. It’s a great piece that works you through discovering and illustrating the purposes behind your business. Not what you do or how you do it, but why you do what you do. The best illustration in the book exposes a juxtaposition between two different work
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At a conference last week, I was subjected to all kinds of talks on data, data integrity, data storage, data in the cloud, and data-centered design patterns. One speaker summed things up perfectly: If you make the center of your world data, then everything else becomes easy. This got me thinking. From a computer-centric viewpoint it all
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When I interviewed for my current job, my boss was very clear that the company culture was one of “working to live” rather than “living to work.” On the surface that made sense and, consequently, was exactly the type of work culture I was looking for. But for all the wrong reasons. Some of my
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A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to be shadowed in my day job by a computer science student. He was interested in web development and eCommerce, so I thought I’d show off a few of my sites. He was pretty impressed. Well, until we got to this site. The old Jumping Duck Media website
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A few months ago, WordPress UX Lead Jane Wells posted a request to WordPress’ Trac ticketing system. The idea was to find a better way to insert “stuff” below WordPress posts: Inserting the sharing and like rows at the bottom of the post text before the byline/classification metadata seems wrong. It should go below that,
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Last weekend I had the chance to see a truly amazing concert. But what made the night even better was the remarkable woman with whom I attended the concert. Frankly, one of my best Saturday nights all year. Great music, great messages, great company, and great conversation. But that conversation was actually quite convicting. On
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As promised, here is the code for my demo of adding feature pointers to WordPress in version 3.3 And again, please do not use these in distributed plugins/themes. They’re only slated for Core at the moment, but if you feel that they’ll help in your custom theme/plugin development with clients, feel free! [cc lang=”php” width=”580″]
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Out of the blue today, a user of one of my plugins contacted me to ask why I was so slow in patching a security vulnerability in my system. The question came as a complete surprise. Apparently, back in January, someone discovered a potential security hole in one of my plugins, WP Publication Archive. The