• Digital Detox

    Starting today, I’m taking a break from both Twitter and Facebook for at least a month.

  • Make Outrageous Promises – and Keep Them!

    Making an outrageous promise to lure in consumers is one thing – when they discover you lied, your brand equity and goodwill drops into the trash. Keeping that promise is something else entirely.

  • Software: Cautionary Tales

    Sometimes we only learn from personal experience. Learn from my mistakes so you don’t have to live through them yourself.

  • Diversity of Experience

    Surround yourself with as many voices different than yours as you can. This diversity of experience and perspective will help sharpen and refine your own.

  • Modular Code

    Composer is a potential solution for theme/plugin dependencies in WordPress. But it will take some time before we flesh out the solution fully.

  • WordPress Database Encryption

    How reasonable is the suggestion that WordPress encrypt its database? Really?

  • Clean up your clutter

    Global variables are bad, clutter your code, and can be a major stumbling project in terms of project maintainability. Don’t use them.

  • Be Aware of Context

    Nothing is more annoying than a customer service representative responding out of context to a customer concern.

  • Ultra-rapid Prototyping

    I built an app last night that allows me to look up bus arrival times via SMS. It took me 2 hours. Node is incredible!

  • Fasting

    Fasting isn’t just “not eating,” it’s re-sensitizing yourself to the things of this world you take for granted.