Are You Nuts?
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Sometimes, innovation requires setting an impossible goal and working hard to reach it despite being told about its impossibility.
Technology
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Why Showing The WordPress Username Is A Security Risk
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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
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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
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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
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I’ve just helped release a fully-functional WordPress object cache powered by Redis! You should give it a try.
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Crowdfunding and Transparency
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Community goodwill can disappear in a second.
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JavaScript and Closures
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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
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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.
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Technical Innovation
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I’m always on the lookout for cool new technology. Sometimes, I find it in the most unexpected of places.
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Dynamic CDN: PHP and Checksums
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The general gist of Dynamic CDN is to scan page content before returning it to the browser and dynamically replace locally-hosted assets (images, scripts, styles, etc) with their CDN-hosted equivalents. The trick is returning consistent CDN urls for hosted assets – the plugin uses PHP to generate a checksum for asset references so it can…