• WordPress Core Proposal: Comment Remastering

    Post-publication comments are also a form of collaboration, and they are in drastic need of some refactoring and re-imagining.

  • Proper Code Styling

    I look at a lot of code. In my job, recreationally on weekends. Everywhere I see people using a specific coding style and, upon pushback, defend it in the sake of brevity. I’m talking about braceless one-line conditionals.

  • Quality Traffic

    If you’re reading this, you’re probably in my target reader group. If you have left a comment previously, you’re definitely in that group. So, unscientifically, what prompts you to leave a comment and engage in the conversation?

  • Pick a Topic

    Today, I wanted to share some tips for picking article topics when you’re otherwise faced with writers’ block.

  • How Secure is the Internet of Things?

    How secure are you? Really?

  • DVCS is Broken

    While Git (and Mercurial) is a lifesaver when it comes to easily branching, tagging, and resolving merge conflicts, Subversion (and TFS and the like) is superior when it comes to sub-project management.

  • Full-Stack Application Development

    My ideal blogging app/content management system/application platform would take the entire stack into account.

  • The Path to my Present

    I get to keep telling stories for my customers, and I get to keep writing my own as I go.

  • The Benefits of Public Speaking

    I speak at conferences not just because there’s something cool I want to present, but because there’s something cool I want to learn.

  • Understanding Parallel Processing

    When I explain to people that I enjoy writing code in C# more than PHP, they scratch their collective heads and, with a quizzical look, always respond, “why?” My biggest reason: I really enjoy working with parallel processing.