And me without any planned trips to Manhattan.

Ever wonder what it’s like to accept a job at Crowd Favorite and move to Denver? Craig does a great job outlining his past 6 months. My favorite bit is probably this:

There’s still much that I don’t know, and I’ll always be asking questions, but my coworkers are incredibly intelligent, helpful, patient, and they challenge me – a great combination to help further my career.

The statement made by Google yesterday, instead, is that the war for mobile will not be won with devices or operating systems. It will be won instead with services.

I like this approach for Google. Good things generally happen when companies play to their strengths.

This is a great overview. It should be easy and simple, but has certainly gotten more complex of late.

When people talk about using Capsule for code snippets I think that’s fine, but that’s not what it’s designed for. GistBox is beautiful (appears to be free – no idea how they plan to support it) and finally provides the ability to tag Gists. This is great for code snippets, lousy as a developer journal. That’s the difference between Capsule and Gistbox – both look to be great tools for different jobs (though you certainly can put code snippets in Capsule if you’re also using it as a journal).

Finding and hiring talented people is by far the hardest and most important part of my job. I’ve had great and terrible success with almost every approach.

This is really cool – I’d love to see it for more pitchers.

Hadn’t thought of programming this way before but I completely agree. One big example for me is with legal contracts. Thinking of them as “this part does this, this part does that” makes them much easier to understand and negotiate.

One of the things I enjoy most is incorporating a good idea from one language/project/etc. into another (obviously, you need exposure to other languages/projects/ideas to do this). You can see examples of this in the code I’ve written that interacts with WordPress and how it’s adopted more of an MVC style over time.

I really do miss the BlackBerry keyboard. I’m a passable typist on the iPhone, but I had to correct 8 typos while just writing this. That didn’t happen when I typed on a BlackBerry.

I talked to anyone who would listen about the need for alternative WP Admin interfaces at various WordCamps over the last year. I thought hard about hiring someone just to create one as a plugin. Awesome to see Ghost taking the reins here.

I’m a tremendous fan of jQuery, but there are situations where you just need to insert a little JavaScript into a webpage/app and adding an additional library is overkill. This is a great reference map of jQuery methods to native JS methods.

Pretty cool to see plugins for Capsule already popping up. This one creates a Gist from a Capsule post.

Amen. (Thanks Aral via Rona)