Tim Bray On Blogging
Tim Bray (when he worked at Sun) was someone who inspired me and incented me to start my own blog; his insistence on writing in a parallel work world was one reason I rolled the Snowman over to WordPress. As I was vamping on the goodness of WordPress as a platform, Tim went meta and [...]
A Decade of WordPress
WordPress celebrated its tenth birthday last week, neatly marked by Matt Mullenweg’s warm and wise words. Ten years is an insanely long time in internet years. It’s web services to cloud, or client-server to web services with Java, XML, and the dot com boom as points on the line. WordPress got me back into development, [...]
“Professional WordPress: Design and Development” 2nd edition
My five-year love affair with WordPress hits another milestone on January 9, 2013 when the 2nd edition of the book I co-authored with Brad Williams and David Damstra is released into the wild. You can pre-order it from Amazon now and you’ll have it the day it’s released. Not as exciting as getting “The Deathly [...]
Another “Like” For The WordPress Community
Part of this blog’s recovery has been switching to the Hybrid theme, with which I’ve experimented a little before. It’s neat, simple, supports a wide variety of child themes, and there’s a very busy support forum. I’m both amazed and thankful that theme author Justin Tadlock personally answers many of the questions, not with “read [...]
Me and Bobby Tables
Brad Williams and I have shared a few Bobby Tables jokes while working on the manuscript for Professional WordPress. SQL injection attacks are nasty, somewhat common, and often require a complete rebuilding of your site to purge and move on. If you’re wondering why the snowman looks a little bare, without pictures, sidebars, or other [...]
WordCamp NYC Skyline
I’m speaking, and Erik and I are sponsors through Amphibimen Comics (another proud WordPress powered site). The deal this year was you got to pick a building, and were charged a dollar a foot for the building’s height. No more gold, silver, bronze, platinum, diamond, ruby, yttrium, molybdenum, or manganese level sponsorships here. Our choice [...]
Speaking at WordCamp NYC Next Weekend
Coming up next weekend: Version 3 of “Parsing Strange,” my WordCamp talk about the mechanisms WordPress uses to turn a URL into SQL and therefore a collection of posts to display. I’m confirmed as one of the speakers at WordCamp NYC 2010, and I have the added pleasure of being a small-scale sponsor of the [...]
Speaking at WordCamp Philadelphia
I’ll be continuing my WordCamp speaking tour at WordCamp Philadelphia on October 30th. I’m giving the latest version of Parsing Strange, my WP internals talk that dissects URL parsing, SQL generation and user-serviceable parts you might run into. With custom page types and custom taxonomies gaining interest and traction in the WordPress community, this talk [...]
WordCamp Boulder slides available
I’m speaking at WordCamp Boulder later on today, in the TechStars room. It’s a small room, without any floor grading, so if you’re not in the first three rows of free-standing seats it’s obstructed view. To make it easier for people to follow along (since some of the slides are critical for grokking the more [...]
Going Commercial Free
Amanda Blum spoke at WordCamp Chicago about web site design and ensuring your content is reaching the desired audience, and that the audience can find and explore the content. Seems kind of obvious. But then she pulled the zinger: don’t display ads and don’t bother with a blogroll. You want readers on your site, not [...]