• Refactoring in Real Life

    It’s truly wonderful what can be wrought when you reuse or recycle materials and give them a second life.

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • The Value of HTTPS Everywhere

    GoGo Inflight is eavesdropping on your traffic!

  • 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.

  • Gardening and God

    It’s difficult to be working among creation and not think of the creator.

  • Wireless Safety

    Beware of who else might be watching your wireless traffic … and what they might be doing with that information.

  • Workaholics Anonymous

    How do you define your happiness? How diverse is that definition? Who controls it?

  • Lessons Learned from Daily Blogging

    If the year ahead is even half as interesting, it will be a powerful thing to experience.

  • Spirit of Democratization

    Does WordPress really embrace a spirit of democratization?