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Author: Aaron Brazell

  • Skunkworks

    Skunkworks

    Back in October, I announced my departure from WP Engine. At that time, though I didn’t talk about it on this blog, I decided to take some time off, more or less. Since 2006, I’ve been hard at work with very little time alotted to myself. I spent 2 years with b5media and jumped immediately…

  • My Maryland Cream of Crab Soup with a Texas Twist [UPDATE]

    My Maryland Cream of Crab Soup with a Texas Twist [UPDATE]

    Once a year, I am invited to a holiday potluck and every year, I’m asked to make my Maryland Cream of Crab Soup. My recipe has evolved over time and now, as a Texas resident, have added a new twist on it. Ingredients 1 quart of Half and Half 1 quart of heavy whipping cream…

  • The Top 50 Stories Since the Invasion of Iraq

    The Top 50 Stories Since the Invasion of Iraq

    War is over, if you want it. ~John Lennon This is a time of year, as we draw 2011 to a close and embark on 2012, to reminisce about the events of the last year. It’s a tradition followed by journalists, bloggers, and opinionistas alike. But since today marks the day where the War in…

  • TUTORIAL: Adding an oEmbed Provider to WordPress

    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…

  • 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 3.3

    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…

  • TUTORIAL: Using Sass and Compass for managing CSS in WordPress

    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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • How is WordPress Subversion Organized

    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,…

  • Rules for Entrepreneurs: Release Early and Often

    Rules for Entrepreneurs: Release Early and Often

    Last week, I wrote two articles outlining some philosophical ideas around entrepreneurship. This series of articles is all about giving away lessons I’ve learned throughout my five years as an entrepreneur in four different ventures. When you’re in the product business, you have to continually improve on your product. As soon as you hit version…