2014
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Hyper-VVV on Windows
May 5
It took me a little trial and error to set up, but this weekend I managed to port my entire WordPress development stack not just to a new machine, but also to a new virtualization provider – Hyper-V.
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Vagrant and Windows
Mar 5
I often brag about the fact that I’ve dumped heavy tools like XAMPP in favor of Vagrant. I’m quite proud of this accomplishment, and I urge every other developer I meet to look into Vagrant.
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Proper Code Styling
Feb 25
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.
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DVCS is Broken
Feb 21
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.
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WordPress Core Proposal: Offline Editor
Feb 12
What would you want to see in an offline editor for WordPress? How would you approach building it? Would it be a core feature, plugin material, or something else entirely?
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Daily Dogfooding
Feb 8
I am appalled by the number of people who work with WordPress for a living but don’t use it outside of work.
2013
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Linux-flavored Windows
Nov 25
I use both Mac and Windows for development because I’ve managed to set up a Linux-style command environment on both. Here are some simple steps you too can follow to have the power of Linux-style commands right from the Windows command prompt.
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Hi jQuery, Meet Vagrant
Oct 25
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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Automated WordPress Development
Jun 8
Developers want readable, modular code; visitors want small, fast downloads. Grunt automates the busywork between the two (linting, concatenating, minifying), and 10up’s project templates make starting a WordPress theme or plugin easier.
2011
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Shortcuts in Chrome
Sept 23
I recently learned how to set up search shortcuts in Google Chrome. Here’s how I set up a custom shortcut to search WordPress’ Trac system.
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How to Publish a WordPress Plugin – Git
May 19
Here’s a step-by-step tutorial on using Git to publish your plugin to the WordPress Plugin Repository.
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How to Publish a WordPress Plugin – Subversion
May 12
Here’s a step-by-step tutorial on using Subversion to publish your plugin to the WordPress Plugin Repository.