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 [...]
WordCamp Chicago Wrapup
Waiting for my outbound Continental flight at O’Hare airport (now there’s a surprise) after WordCamp Chicago this weekend. One word summary: Wow. I’ve been to the two WordCamps in New York as a part organizer and registration desk sitter, but not as a presenter or active attendee. Now that I’ve been on the stage, I’m [...]
WordCamp Chicago Slides: Parsing Strange
I’ve published the slides from my WordCamp Chicago talk this morning on SlideShare.net. While I had the evil hangover slot, nearly 200 fervent WordPress developers managed to make it into the (chilly) room to hear me rant about SQL grammar, inner joins and Cartesian table products, and why social graphs don’t fit data normalization rules [...]
SitePoint Podcast with the book trio
Had the pleasure of recoding SitePoint podcast #56 with Brad Williams and David Damstra, my co-authors on Professional WordPress. As usual, it was fun romp through the process of writing a book, some of our favorite parts, and what it’s like to write with people you never met in person (sort of the inverse of [...]
WordCamp Chicago: WordPress in the Second City
Along with co-authors Brad Williams and David Damstra, I’m making the trip to the Second City. Brad is presenting WordPress Security bright and early on Saturday, June 5, and I get the hangover slot (9:00am Sunday morning) to talk about how WordPress takes a URL and decides what content to display. My talk, “URL to [...]