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Refactoring in Real Life
It’s truly wonderful what can be wrought when you reuse or recycle materials and give them a second life.
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Security, Internationalization, and Performance
When I began writing code for WordPress projects, I had no idea how to properly internationalize my content, There were a few blog posts at the time that accused developers like me of doing a disservice to our customers. I took offense at the time, but they had a point. Internationalization is extraordinarily important for […]
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Deprecate Magic Constructors in PHP
Along the lines of the argument to make code easier to understand for quick readers, I want to propose something a little less radical and just as useful for devs: Deprecate the magic `__construct()` function.
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The Value of HTTPS Everywhere
GoGo Inflight is eavesdropping on your traffic!
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Community Support
You don’t have to understand why someone wants your help living their dream. Just recognize that, if you’re already living yours, you might just have been in a better place to get there; their road might be harder to walk.
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Gardening and God
It’s difficult to be working among creation and not think of the creator.
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Wireless Safety
Beware of who else might be watching your wireless traffic … and what they might be doing with that information.
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Workaholics Anonymous
How do you define your happiness? How diverse is that definition? Who controls it?
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Lessons Learned from Daily Blogging
If the year ahead is even half as interesting, it will be a powerful thing to experience.
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Spirit of Democratization
Does WordPress really embrace a spirit of democratization?