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Live to Work
When I interviewed for my current job, my boss was very clear that the company culture was one of “working to live” rather than “living to work.” On the surface that made sense and, consequently, was exactly the type of work culture I was looking for. But for all the wrong reasons. Some of my […]
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Welcome Back!
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to be shadowed in my day job by a computer science student. He was interested in web development and eCommerce, so I thought I’d show off a few of my sites. He was pretty impressed. Well, until we got to this site. The old Jumping Duck Media website […]
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Post Supplements – A Concept
A few months ago, WordPress UX Lead Jane Wells posted a request to WordPress’ Trac ticketing system. The idea was to find a better way to insert “stuff” below WordPress posts: Inserting the sharing and like rows at the bottom of the post text before the byline/classification metadata seems wrong. It should go below that, […]
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My Prayer
Last weekend I had the chance to see a truly amazing concert. But what made the night even better was the remarkable woman with whom I attended the concert. Frankly, one of my best Saturday nights all year. Great music, great messages, great company, and great conversation. But that conversation was actually quite convicting. On […]
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WordPress Portland
As promised, here is the code for my demo of adding feature pointers to WordPress in version 3.3 And again, please do not use these in distributed plugins/themes. They’re only slated for Core at the moment, but if you feel that they’ll help in your custom theme/plugin development with clients, feel free! [cc lang=”php” width=”580″] […]
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Security Vulnerabilities
Out of the blue today, a user of one of my plugins contacted me to ask why I was so slow in patching a security vulnerability in my system. The question came as a complete surprise. Apparently, back in January, someone discovered a potential security hole in one of my plugins, WP Publication Archive. The […]
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Keeping it Realtime – Day 2
I will once again be liveblogging the Keeping it Realtime conference in Portland, Oregon. If you want to catch up with yesterday’s stream, feel free. Otherwise, stay tuned for more today! You can also leave comments at the bottom of the feed … — 4:56 pmNext on the schedule is Jack Moffitt on “Imagining the […]
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Keeping it Realtime
Today and tomorrow I’ll be at the Keeping it Realtime conference in Portland, learning about all the cool new interfaces available for a real-time web. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to finish my liveblogging plugin before today … so you’ll be stuck hitting F5 repeatedly to get update from me in this space. On the other […]
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Statement of Faith
I find new ways to challenge my faith in the oddest of places. Lately, though, it was a random political conversation I had with some friends on Twitter. If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks, you might have missed the “Occupy Wall Street” movement sweeping across America. It’s something I’ve […]
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WordPress Weekly
Last night, I had the opportunity to talk with Jeff Chandler on the weekly podcast WordPress Weekly. We talked about a lot of things: should automatic WordPress updates be opt-in or opt out? Will/should Automattic ever be acquired by another organization? Does it matter how many plugins your site runs? It was a fun chat, […]