4 minute readI primarily work on the WordPress plugin Event Espresso for my living, and thought I’d share my development setup: what tools I use to make software. I do this to share the tools I’ve found handy, but also inviting feedback on how it could be improved. What I Like About My Development Setup I use […]
Read More My WordPress and PHP development Setup17 minute readThis last weekend I attended WordCamp Seattle and learned a ton. I mean a ton. This post about it is really long! Just read the headings you find interesting. The Journey Getting to the WordCamp was a bit of a pain though- the weather was not favourable. First there was a surprise snow-storm in Shawnigan […]
Read More WordCamp Seattle 2017 Memory Dump19 minute readI made a lot of mistakes going from developing closed-source to open-source software, and want to share the unspoken rules I discovered in the process.This post is intended for readers with programming experience (especially with WordPress), but who are new to contributing to open source projects. My First Pull Request Disaster Customizing BuddyPress Docs for […]
Read More Five Unspoken Rules of Contributing to Open Source Software4 minute readMy last post was kinda a complaint about how tasks have sometimes been assigned to me at work. (Of course at church, where I’m currently serving as “elders quorum president” I’m kinda in the position of assigning tasks, and frankly I kinda stink at it. I’m so conscientious that I might offend someone somehow that […]
Read More What I like about my Work7 minute readI do computer programming for work (php and python nowadays). It sometimes frustrates me, and I’m sure my employers too, how long seemingly simple jobs take. Eg want to change a website’s font size? Seems like it should just take changing one setting somewhere from 10 to 11, right? Yeah that’s it… but don’t forget […]
Read More Things to Consider Before Assigning Me a Task2 minute readAt the recent WordCamp I attended, one of the speakers mentioned how when you’re working on your own website or software, you’re never “done.” There’s always some way to improve it (also, there’s always some new bug you never noticed before, and some integration that makes a change that breaks it.) And that sounds about […]
Read More Two kinds of Infinity5 minute readWent to my first WordCamp yesterday (a conference for WordPress users, and WordPress is software that runs blog’s and websites like this one). I was actually all ready to go last year too (I bought an early bird ticket) but I had recently re-dislocated my shoulder again, and the date for surgery was the day […]
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