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Three Decades Down
Today is my birthday, and also marks the completion date for my previous “to do before I reach a certain birthday” list. I’m asking for your help in building my list for the next however many years.
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WordPress: Falling Behind or Still Leading?
When Tumblr first appeared, everyone wanted WordPress to begin emulating its features. Then came Medium and the same cry. Then Ghost launched and again the retort sounded that “WordPress is falling behind!” But is WordPress really lagging behind the pack? I would argue otherwise.
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Hi jQuery, Meet Vagrant
I use Vagrant for local development on WordPress. It made perfect sense to use it for local jQuery development, too. This weekend I put the finishing touches on a patch to add Vagrant support to the jQuery project – now you can leverage the power of this awesome tool as well!
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WordPress is One Of the Best Decisions You Can Make
Some would say the decision to use WordPress in an enterprise or mission-critical environment is a mistake. I disagree. Strongly. Using WordPress is the best decision I’ve ever made.
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Limited Liability
Every once in a while, I get an unsolicited sales email from a random company. It usually has some laughable “limited liability” statement attached that claims to protect the sender from any legal claims that their message damaged my machine. Honestly, such a statement is laughable and guarantees I will never respond to the email.
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SEO: Gaming the System
When anyone asks me how they can focus on SEO for their website, I usually point out that they’re asking the wrong question. Optimizing for search engines is a waste of time. Instead, focus on optimizing your site for real people.
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In Pursuit of an Ideal
I met a lot of people in college. There was Frog, the guy who sold hand-illustrated joke books outside the campus bookstore. There was the leader of the college republicans who sat through most of our Political Science classes bragging about how he’d be on a houseboat rather than writing his term paper. There was […]
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Modular WordPress
Last weekend, Matt Mullenweg spoke at length about what the future holds for WordPress development. I took some time to share a brief proposal for one change that could be made farther down the road. Today I’d like to share another – more in line with Matt’s proposal that future WordPress development be focused around […]
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WordPress, Forking, and the Road to 4.0
Today at WordCamp San Francisco, Matt Mullenweg presented the plan for the upcoming 3.7 and 3.8 releases of WordPress. In a nutshell, they will be small, developed in parallel, and (assuming all goes to plan) both released by the end of 2013. This is hugely exciting! The plan for these two releases makes sense and […]