I’m going to Treehouse
Today I’m happy to announce that I’ll be moving to Orlando Florida to work at Treehouse as the PHP and WordPress teacher.
Read MoreMy list of what makes a CMS
This is a personal list of items that make a great content management system from a management, design and development perspective. Flexibility, stability, access, development process and management process being key.
Here is the list of advanced features I would put in a system. This doesn’t include the basics as it is a personal list of items for me to expand on later. You can come back for more. I do plan to make my own Open Source CMS one day but not until I have had what I deem enough experience. Three years from now maybe.
Read More24 Ways is here again in 2011
Its that time again. The advent calendar of web design is pumping out 24 more post until the day of Christmas. 24 Ways. This is one of the few blogs I look forward to each year.
24 Ways is a blog for web designers and developers published at the time of Christmas. Each day until the 25th of December an expert in the web community blogs about current and influential topics. These range from design to business development.
Read MoreEntering the SitePoint Podcast
Today I’m happy to announce that the SitePoint Podcast has taken me aboard. Only a few weeks ago my friend Patrick O’Keefe contacted me while I was in Florida about joining the show. Needless to say I accepted.
It has been a true pleasure to join the crew. It has already been an experience I will never forget. These guys are great.
Read MoreReasons not to blog today
Sometimes you just don’t have the energy to do the things you have committed to doing. For one reason or another you want to quit. Take a day off. Go to bed. Today I feel this way. I have a ton of reason too:
Read MoreThe day I denied Batman
Watching reruns of the 1960s Batman defined my early childhood. I lived on the edge of our family sofa. My eyes transfixed on Adam West, the face of my hero, the Batman.
I was no couch potato, I as a fan. Fully garbed with my plastic mask and hand made cape.
Read MoreInterview with Chris Coyier
In this interview I wanted to speak with Chris Coyier about unicorns and rainbows. However, he convinced me that CSS was a much better topic. Chris is the coauthor of “Digging into WordPress” and creator of CSS Tricks. Chris is a world known CSS expert and HTML guru. He also works at Wufoo making web forms fun, easy and modern.
I hope you enjoy this interview and learn a few things in the process. I think Chris is one of the funnest people to meet and talk to so I know you will love this interview. I also would like to thank Chris for taking the time to do this interview and share his thought with us today.
Read MoreRead: Localizing WordPress Themes and Plugins
I love it when someone else writes a blog post so good that when you want to write about the same topic yourself all you need to do is link to their site. Today I want to share an excellent post on localizing your WordPress themes and plugins.
Localizing a theme simply means to make its static content translatable for people who speak another language. This is important if you plan to sell or share a theme or plugin under the GPL. I personally need to do this for my plugins on WordPress.org.
Read MorePostPost Saves My Twitter Feed
I feel like I’m always playing hide a seek with Twitter links. PostPost may have just given me a heat seeking missile!
Read MoreDrupal wins the member only website
I’m working s on nifty little site today. I must rave about how easy Drupal makes building members only websites. I mean it is just insane. I need to do a demo at some point, just to show off.
In no time I have been able to restrict content access. Not only on a single page and role level but also on a per user basis within dynamic views lists. I’m talking like 3 hours and we have a site up and running.
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