August, 2011

  1. I have a wife, a child, a house and my own business. I think I’ve reached the point where I can buy a *matching* Tupperware set.

  2. Regarding “Startup Culture” →

    The freedom to engineer and implement rapid solutions to real problems with whatever means necessary. That is the “startup mojo” you seek.

    It’s not limited to startups either – it’s one of the things I enjoy about the things we do in our for-hire dev shop.

  3. Custom Fields vs. Taxonomies

    For years I’ve used custom fields (post meta) in WordPress as a primary storage area for misc. data about specific posts (including pages, custom post types, etc.). Recently, I’ve realized that I should be using custom taxonomies instead of custom fields in a variety of situations. Custom fields are still the right choice for misc.…

  4. Drafts Dropdown 2.0

    I’ve released an updated version of Drafts Dropdown. This is a WordPress plugin that gives you easy access to your draft posts. A “Drafts” link is added to the admin bar. Clicking this drops down a drawer with your drafts. The new version also updates the styling, improves performance, and will make you younger, fitter…

  5. Where to Host WordPress Code?

    I talked to a number of developers about at this year’s WordCamp SF about where best to publish WordPress code as a developer. We definitely want to use the SVN repositories on WordPress.org so that released plugins can be easily available to the community, but there is very little developer community there. We’ve also used…