Generally Helpful Since Birth
I can’t believe it’s been TWO YEARS since I wrote this little post on my first contribution to another author’s WordPress plugin. It was a great feeling way back then. Since then, I’ve always wanted to extend that feeling to contribute directly to WordPress Core. Today I can proudly say: “Bucket-list item: Checked!” This December… Read more What I Learned by Contributing to Twenty Sixteen
The belief that violence ”saves” is so successful because it doesn’t seem to be mythic in the least. Violence simply appears to be the nature of things. It’s what works. It seems inevitable, the last and, often, the first resort in conflicts. If a god is what you turn to when all else fails, violence certainly functions as a god. ~ Walter Wink, Professor of Biblical Interpretation at Auburn University
Yesterday, Google celebrated Bartolomeo Cristofori as the inventor of the piano. You can see the “Doodle” here. I love the history of the piano, and just how significant it was to the history of music. Before the piano, there were several types of hammered-string instruments like the dulcimer, harpsichord, and clavichord. The limitation of each was… Read more How the History of the Piano Inspires Me
I love statistics! I really like seeing the way numbers are influenced by events, by people, by random occurrences. It’s fascinating to me. This is why I’ll NEVER play any fantasy sport. They are PURE statistics! I’d get soo consumed in watching the numbers come in and getting agitated and fixated I’d loose my job… Read more Take the Pain out of Google Analytics in WordPress
Alternate Title: I’m Taking Labor Day Off, Dammit! If you are a freelancer, self-employed, sole proprietor, business owner like me, then one of the major reasons you got into the business was to be your own boss. Maybe it was just time for you to go out on your own, maybe you couldn’t handle the cubicle… Read more Are You the Worst Boss You Ever Had?
Seriously, that just happened. But the “bar” is our Advanced WordPress Facebook group. I’ve mentioned it a few times, and that’s no coincidence. Besides WordPress itself, this little Facebook group (of about 8,800+ members now!) has been one of the most instrumental tools in my web development shed. Why? Three simple reasons: Community Code Community… Read more A Coder, a Troll, and Matt Mullenweg Walk Into a Bar
You’ve been there before. You are coding some great theme or plugin and you get to a point where you realize that you want something to change ONLY for mobile devices. It happens. They’re so small and have such unique needs sometimes, that you end up needing to do some very targeted things for them.… Read more Detecting, Targeting, and Testing Mobile Devices with Javascript
Image credit: “Lopez July 4th weekend – 12” by Erich Iveans All Rights Reserved I have a couple developer friends who basically believe that plugins are like nuclear weapons, you only use them as the absolute last resort and it’s never a good thing when you do use them. I don’t agree with that. Code is code… Read more Build a WordPress Site with One Plugin [Giveaway]
This is a rare day indeed. It’s not often that I post something about php. I’m really just starting to dig into it in earnest. I’ve always basically just “hacked” my way through php code to get the results that I wanted. This is more or less the same thing I did with the example… Read more Checking for Multiple Classes with class_exists
When Adam McLane of the Youth Cartel invited me to help build a new website for (then) The Center for Youth (now re-branded as Culture and Youth Studies, or CYS), a organization supported by Gordon Conwell College, I was thrilled. But there were several things I didn’t realize at that time. First. I didn’t realize… Read more Featured Client: Culture and Youth Studies