2014
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Just Ship Already
Apr 9
Stop wasting time trying to perfect the final 1% of your project. It won’t happen. The “someday” you’re waiting for to launch is today.
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Reinventing the Wheel
Apr 8
How often do you take something you’d otherwise take for granted back to the drawing board and start from scratch?
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Situational Awareness
Apr 7
How aware are you both of the objective dead ahead and of the potential vectors for surprises behind you?
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WordPress, Options, and Auto-loading
Apr 6
There are many different ways WordPress performance can be slowed: not understanding options is one of them.
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Are You Nuts?
Apr 5
Sometimes, innovation requires setting an impossible goal and working hard to reach it despite being told about its impossibility.
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Why Showing The WordPress Username Is A Security Risk
Apr 4
There have been a handful of discussions lately surrounding WordPress and usernames – particularly whether or not exposing usernames is a security risk. The consensus appears to be “no.” I beg to differ.
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You Can’t Go Home
Apr 2
We often leave one place for another, still harboring the hope that we can one day return and pick things up where we left them.
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WordPress 4.0 Preview
Apr 1
WordPress 3.9 won’t even be released for another two weeks, but development has already begun on version 4.0.
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Redis Object Cache for WordPress
Mar 31
I’ve just helped release a fully-functional WordPress object cache powered by Redis! You should give it a try.
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JavaScript and Closures
Mar 27
One of the first things I look for when reviewing JavaScript code is the proper use (and isolation) of scope.
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WordPress Core Proposal: Data Service
Mar 26
Rather than pitch a feature that is a must-have within the ecosystem, I want to explain something that would be nice-to-have from a developer perspective.