Author: Aaron Brazell

  • If I Had to do it All Again

    If I Had to do it All Again

    As I sit here tonight, at a bar, typing on the WordPress app (which will undoubtedly make my fingers cramp typing long form), I’m thinking about my life. What has made me a man, a developer, a friend, and lover (I can even get in Oxford commas on the app!) In exactly five hundred and…

  • The Internet is About to Become WAY Faster

    The Internet is About to Become WAY Faster

    Earlier this week, the big news in the tech space surrounded the completion of the HTTP/2 Spec. Gibberish, gibberish, gibberish. What does this mean for the internet? The short version is: it’s about to become way faster. Faster is extremely important if you want to make money from traffic to your site. Or, you know, if…

  • Public Enemy Number 1 for A Small Development Shop

    Public Enemy Number 1 for A Small Development Shop

    Net-30, Net-45, Net-60. If you’ve been working as a freelancer or run your own development shop, you’re familiar with these terms. They are the terms that many businesses leverage for paying invoices. They exist because of Accounts Payable.

  • Weekly Blog Post Challenge

    Weekly Blog Post Challenge

    Back in 2004, I, like many other people in the WordPress community began blogging. We didn’t, I don’t think, get into WordPress because we wanted to write code or build a career. We got into it because we wanted to write. Our natural talent and curiosity took over, however, and we began writing code. At…

  • My process for Photography Production

    My process for Photography Production

    I’ve shared a lot of my photography via social networks – Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Flickr. It’s generally unlike other photography that you may see around the web. I generally don’t shoot people, unless the people are part of a greater narrative or scene. Never as the object of focus in the scene. I also…

  • Depression:What it Means

    As everyone has most likely heard now, Robin Williams has died. Police have now come out and said he hung himself. Not too long ago, Phillip Seymour Hoffman overdosed on a cocktail of heroin, cocaine and amphetamine, used to treat ADHD. That overdose resulted in his untimely death. These incidents, naturally, shake our culture to…

  • Bad Job Board Titles

    Bad Job Board Titles

    Human Resources personnel. You gotta love ’em. They’re the people who make sure you get paid every week, or biweekly or however often you get paid. They’re the ones who you talk to when you have a complaint about another employee. HR personnel are also, generally, responsible for posting job reqs. If you go to…

  • Entrepreneurial Priorities if You Don’t Want to Despise Yourself at Age 80

    Entrepreneurial Priorities if You Don’t Want to Despise Yourself at Age 80

    With the exception of a general, “We’re hiring” post a few days ago, my site has been largely neglected for the past year. It’s not that I don’t want to write. I do. And it’s not like I don’t have things to say because, if you know me, I do. I really do. And it’s…

  • Looking for a Top Notch WordPress/PHP Developer

    If you’re in Baltimore and are a developer, or if you are in Baltimore and know someone who is a developer… Heck, if you’re in DC and are a developer or know a developer, we need you. (You can be to work in under an hour on the MARC train).Some of you know what I…

  • NSA And Chaos Theory

    Look, I’m not for 4th Amendment overreach but this PRISM thing. Let’s be honest…. I’m pretty proud of Americans for developing this ingenious piece of engineering. If it does what it claims to do (and not what the hype says it does), it’s nothing short of one of the major wonders of the modern world.…