I don’t often write tutorials. I probably should. But normally it’s only when someone asks me something and I think, “Hey, self… you should write up how to do this”. As if a book wasn’t enough. Last night I was at the Austin Web Holiday party, a gathering of some 15+ technical meetup groups cross-pollinating […]
Continue reading... November 17, 2011
10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 3.3
WordPress 3.2 has been downloaded a killer 12M+ times. WordPress as a whole continues to grow and is touted to be in the approximate 14% of the web zone. That’s ridiculously huge and it astounds me how big the projects footprint has become in the 7 years I’ve been around the community. Well done to […]
Continue reading... November 2, 2011
TUTORIAL: Using Sass and Compass for managing CSS in WordPress
I don’t often write tutorials but since the rebuild of the WP Engine website some months ago, I have been turned on to the use of a brilliant combination of tools made for development in a Ruby on Rails environment. That doesn’t mean we can’t make it work for WordPress too. The tools are Compass […]
Continue reading... October 13, 2011
Platforms vs. Products: Google Does Some Soul Searching
A rant from a Googler comparing Amazon’s focus on a platform vs Google’s focus on products. Fundamental.
Continue reading... October 3, 2011
Changing Roles at WP Engine
For some time, I’ve felt there was a change coming and today, I’m ready to announce that my role within WP Engine is changing. Starting today, I have transitioned into an advisory and consulting role with the company. Effective immediately, I will be taking the portion of the business that focused on professional services and […]
Continue reading... September 30, 2011
How is WordPress Subversion Organized
There’s some confusion about how WordPress organizes it’s Subversion (SVN) repository. Most SVN repositories are organized into three main directories, as is best practice — trunk, tags, branches. The repository can be found at http://core.svn.wordpress.org/ and a primer on how to use SVN for WordPress development can be found on Mark’s blog and, for Windows, […]
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