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Things Have Changed – St. Peter's Square

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March 18, 2013

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You have already seen this image perhaps, 1,000 times over, and so if you’ve already commented and shared it you can move along, but I have come back to this image more than a few times over the past few days – I can’t seem to “land” on what I really think about this comparison. The 8 years of difference, technologically, is obvious – the crowd in 2005 is waiting patiently with only a handful of mobile devices lit up (that we can see). The recent wait for the new Pope announcement (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) shows a very different crowd […]

Your Introduction to Genesis Hooks

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March 18, 2013

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The genesis framework is a robust and dynamic WordPress theming framework created by Brian Gardner at StudioPress. Some key features that the Genesis Framework offers is lightning speed, excellent security (audited by Mark Jaquith), and durability. Genesis Hooks one of the most useful features of this framework to extend your theme’s functionality. These hooks make development quicker and much more efficient. A hook is a snippet of code that is written into a theme or plugin that allows the insertion of content into the theme. This allows you to extend the functionality of your website by hooking code into your website […]

Q/A with theMOLITOR: ThemeForest and More

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March 18, 2013

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Chris Molitor, in his first official Seattle meetup, sat down in a Q/A session and shares his experience with finding the right “niche” and placement for his themes, or territory as well as getting exposure and growing a successful business in ThemeForest. He’s now one of the more successful theme developers and Envato authors – selling nearly 20,000 sales and ranking well beyond the $250,000 sales goal. He’s most likely on his way to have a “Molitor Day” – when you hit the $1MM mark! It’s well-worth a listen:

Why Personal Projects Matter

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March 18, 2013

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There are many things that I have always wanted to do with my life and I am glad I finally found to do something I love and get paid to do it. When it comes to personal projects, those things seem to get put on the back burner for many of us. I have found that those personal projects are more significant to us than any of our regular work. They really push us because we actually care about them.  It doesn’t really matter what it is we do, whether we are athletes, engineers, photographers or bloggers, its about being […]

Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 3.17.2013

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March 17, 2013

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First, I just want to say thanks to everyone who was able to come to our office during WordCamp Atlanta. It was great seeing all of you and I hope that you all had a safe travel home. Hopefully after learning a little bit more about WordPress for some of you, you may want to check out some new plugins! Here they are:

Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 3.16.2013

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March 16, 2013

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What an awesome WordCamp Atlanta 2013! I had an awesome time getting to know lots of people that I knew digitally. It was really cool seeing this great community in action. It’s because of this awesome community that I get the pleasure to share these awesome new plugins with you. Keep building the community guys! I hope the rest of you have a great time at your respective WordCamp!

Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 3.15.2013

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March 15, 2013

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Hey ya’ll! I have been in Atlanta for a few days and I have already inherited Tom’s southern drawl. First day of Wordcamp Atlanta 2013 and it was awesome! Can’t wait to speak tomorrow! How sweet would it be if I was able to run into the author of one of these plugins?

Sneak Peek It – Mobile Sketch Sheets

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March 15, 2013

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Jared and the rest of the team are presenting today and tomorrow at WordCamp Atlanta and so far the crowd has been fantastic! It’s great to see the community come out strongly with such a variety of backgrounds, interests, and skill-levels. This is what a great WordCamp is all about! Jared presented on his Design Toolkit, which he’ll share much later his deck available via his blog but something that was particularly neat was Sneak Peek It, a free downloadable and printable sketch sheet that you can use for your concepts and artwork. I thought it was worth sharing and I can’t […]

The Story of BusyBox and The First GPL Lawsuit

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March 15, 2013

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I’m near-infinitely curious about open source technology and how that impacts us not at just a microscopic leve but also a macroscopic as well – how it’s changing not just how I see software and product development but how it’s changing the landscape of publishing as a whole. That’s why I spend time looking into and understanding licensing and the licensing issues (especially around the GPL) and find interesting comparisons between WordPress and other CMSs and their challenges (like Joomla’s Civil War). With Joomla’s and WordPress’ issues with licensing it can be hard, at times, to understand what exactly the […]

A New Class: Software Developers Turned Writers

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March 15, 2013

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There was a great post on Medium the other day that I’ve been mulling over since it was first published and since Medium doesn’t have a commenting system quite yet I thought I’d share my thoughts here instead. The post, titled Editor, Product Manage Thyself, is an fascinating introspection of a developer turned journalist turned editor and one that I have experience with myself, although I have never considered myself a “journalist” in the typical sense. One of Paul Smalera’s arguments is that editors now have to be just as much product managers in today’s digital economy since they must be […]

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