Have you seen Jeff Starr‘s latest and greatest book? You know, that guy who co-authored the amazing Digging into WordPress book with Chris Coyier? Well I’m not sure about you but I’ve bookmarked Jeff’s blog, Perishable Press, years ago and it’s provided incredible strategies, snippets of code, and yes, .htaccess scripts that have more than saved me a couple times. So when I heard that he was rocking a book covering that topic specifically I knew I had to get it.
Better Tools Make Better WordPress Developers
The 13th century French proverb “mauvés ovriers ne trovera ja bon hostill” roughly translates to “a bad workman will never find a good tool.” I’m sure at the time this proverb applied to stone masons and carpenters. Few would have imagined that it would also apply to web developers pushing bits around on a screen centuries later. It’s unlikely that you are “a bad workman.” You are reading this article afterall. You’re probably looking for a new tool to help you with WordPress development. High performing web developers don’t do that. In his reveting WordCamp San Diego 2013 talk, the […]
Firepad: Open Source Collaborative Text Editing
Now wouldn’t this be some cool technology that could sit right within the post editor for WordPress? I know it would be a stretch and something that might be a little jarring at first, but imagine if the text editor, the area that I’m typing in right now, became a much more collaborative environment, much like Firepad.io? Imagine that for a moment:
Introducing Looplet: The WordPress Code Library
About a month ago, I asked for feedback on a project I was working on. I originally began to build a WordPress code library after I had been using Dan Ciederholm’s Pears theme which encourages modular, object oriented, front-end development. I began to work on something that would do the same for WordPress patterns. But I had a bit of trouble figuring out exactly what that was. Thanks to your incredible feedback and a couple of supporters pushing me along, I have officially finished Version 1.0 of Looplet.
Happy 4th Birthday to Event Espresso!
Event Espresso, in honor of their 4th birthday, is having a 20% off sale on all license package and add-on purchases now through April 30th! We think it’s always a reason to celebrate the continued growth of companies; it’s hard enough with the ever-increasing options out there for applications and solutions and we know competition is stiff. So we salute not only Event Espresso but all small businesses out there! Don’t give up my friends!
2 Comments