You are not your customer
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When you start a company and come up with a name, whether or not you like the name doesn’t matter. You are not the customer.
development
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Paying off technical debt
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Every successful development team has two things in common: They’ve shipped a product, and they accepted compromises to make that shipment possible.
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Iterative Improvement
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Fundamentally, though, your application should always be broken up into separate components – each should be capable of functioning somewhat on its own.
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Death by Documentation
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Before I finally made it to a more modern company that fully embraced Agile methodologies, I worked for a firm that used the waterfall method exclusively for project planning. It was a nightmare.
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Beautiful Code
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Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. But also don’t let shipping be the enemy of beauty.
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Open Sourcing Awesomeness
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I pride myself now on working with some of the best WordPress engineers in the world. At 10up, our clients know they’re getting solid editorial projects backed by even more solid engineering. There’s some magic in that, but most of it is learned.
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If you’re not part of the solution …
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I use WordPress daily; I critique it almost as frequently. Are my suggestions contributing to a solution or just further conflating the problem?
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Magic of Collaboration
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I’m super excited to announce that I’m using 10up’s newest product – PushUp – on this site. If you’re visiting on Safari you’ve already see the popup asking for permission to notify you.
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Vagrant and Windows
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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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Full-Stack Application Development
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My ideal blogging app/content management system/application platform would take the entire stack into account.