2012

  1. Tech Companies Leave Phone Calls Behind →

    The plain and simple fact is that they’re too busy or too important to talk to us,” he said.

    Technology has allowed small teams to serve large customer bases in ways previously unimaginable. To assume that this would have no impact on the way these businesses are able to interact with their customers is foolish.

    (thanks Ethan)

  2. The Right Way to Include a Plugin in a WordPress Theme

    In our FavePersonal theme we integrated the excellent Social plugin from MailChimp and included an option to turn it on or off. Most importantly we did it in a way that still allows the Social plugin to be installed and updated independently. We made sure that we implemented this in a manner that: respected users’…

  3. Add a Preview Button to the Fullscreen Editor in WordPress

    I really like the fullscreen editor in WordPress. I use it nearly all of the time when composing long-form content, often in conjunction with the excellent Markdown on Save plugin by Mark Jaquith. It has always bugged me that there wasn’t a Preview button in the fullscreen mode toolbar. Problem solved. Here’s the code. This…

  4. FavePersonal 1.1

    We’ve released version 1.1 of our FavePersonal theme for WordPress (the theme you see on this site). This release includes the new 2.5 version of the Social plugin as well as updates to Carrington Core and other libraries and code changes to use new best practices added in WordPress 3.4. As a result, this release…

  5. Had cereal for breakfast for the first time since college. Hooray almond milk!

  6. The Conundrum of Email →

    Most people respond quickly to me, so if I respond quickly, I generate the endless back and forth of email. When this doesn’t necessarily show it, I know that when I slow down, there’s less email coming back my way.

    The feature I want most from my email client/service: delayed send. That way I can write replies, get them out of my head, but not have them sent until the time I specify.

  7. Carrington Build and FaveBusiness Updates

    Carrington Build

    We recently updated Carrington Build for compatibility with WordPress 3.4. We also updated our pricing structure for Carrington Build, dropping the single site price from $499 to $299 and adding an unlimited site package1 at $999. Our Carrington Build packages include access to our developer support forums and developer documentation, along with example theme integrations…

  8. Carrington Core 3.4

    We’ve gone ahead and merged in the global variables changes into version 3.4 of Carrington Core. We also stripped out the lightbox and color picker code so that Carrington Core is just a lightweight template selection engine. If you have a Carrington-based theme that relies on the lightbox or color picker, grab the code from…

  9. I don’t know much about hot water heaters, but I’m guessing that having the pilot light go out 3 times in 4 days isn’t a good sign.