To: Family & Friends
Date: April 30, 2014
Subject: Back in the saddle again
Hi Everyone, I’m back from my trip – I had a great time. The only bummer was I didn’t get a chance to work on my golf game enough before I left for the trip, so I want a second chance at some of the great courses I played. A quick overview: – flew in…
This is great. We see this sort of thing at work all the time – people communicate very differently over different mediums and in different situations.
A big +1 from me on this one.
Survived the 5 year old birthday/tea party.
Barely.
Reached the point in the project where the code is in my brain long after I close the computer. Even tried chasing it away with a Manhattan.
I know I’ve said this before but it makes me nervous when things work the first time after a big code change/refactoring.
Today I finished two product features and fixed a framework regression. I’m calling that a win.
I used to do primarily front-end web development (UI coding) before getting into the back-end stuff. The back-end stuff is less fiddly and feels more elegant. Whenever I do front-end work it always feels like I’m writing more code that I should be (generally to handle lots of edge cases). But I love creating a great user experience, and that means fiddly front-end code.
This has been on my mind recently as well. I was at a family reunion a few weeks back and sharing the photos from the event is way harder than it should be.
On Tuesday I was back in the office and itching to get back to work on my current project. That morning I got two emails about an incompatibility in Carrington Build‘s Rich Text module and WordPress 3.9. Sure enough, the change in WordPress core to upgrade to TinyMCE 4.0 coupled with changes in how TinyMCE…
I was a guest on last week’s episode of Unprofessional. It was a treat to podcast with my friend Dave again (and for the first time with Jaimee). Give it a listen, I think we covered a few interesting topics and I got to give Dave a hard time. 🙂
I preach the same thing, my reasons don’t just include readability, but simplicity and searchability too.
Where are we handling 200 responses?
I’ll search for “200”… there it is.
I especially encourage this in WordPress dev when relating to WordPress post meta keys, filter and action names, etc. It makes refactoring easier too.
I don’t think I’m $1500 worth of curious, but I’d love to play with one of these.
These are my people.