Last Saturday I had one of those epiphany moments for something way too obvious, still too shocking for me at the moment of speaking. It was related to the QA process and the place of the QA role in the software industry.
I got involved in a discussion on Saturday evening regarding several different technical specialties. There were three...
It's no secret that WordPress started as a blogging platform and there are tens of millions of blogs out there. Even though most of us do WordPress design/development for a living, blogging was what introduced us to the platform in the first place but given the busy daily schedule of work tasks, calls/chats and social networks, we tend to ne...
I just got back from the supermarket. While leaving with my groceries, I overheard the following conversation:
Come on, you even teach while sitting - that's such a lack of motivation!I do what I got paid to do.So, if you were earning X extra every month, you would be more excited?Sure.
The Human Motivation
There are various psy...
Working on a project with migrating some data to a WordPress database I got my long and precise script up and running, but the data wasn't visible in the taxonomy list view in the admin - only the parent term there, few pages of data calculated (pagination on), but no data other than the parent.
Luckily I found a cache wiping solution by Ma...
Most of my friends, colleagues and even clients are aware of the fact that I am a strong supporter of telecommuting and flexible work hours. I formed the local freelance community several years ago and I have given numerous talks on freelancing, remote workers, outsourcing and everything related to that.
I live in a building with a hacker...
Almost 2 years ago I built the DX Plugin Base plugin as a skeleton for my own plugins - to copy-paste snippets that I regularly use like: adding custom post types, metaboxes, implementing the Settings API and so forth.
Few days ago it hit the 1000 downloads mark and I'm pretty happy that other people find that useful. Recently I saw a pl...
A Linux/LEMP discussion on Twitter today reminded me that I've spent about 10 years within a Linux environment now. It's not exclusive per se, there were times where I got back to Windows for a few months (keeping at least one system Linux-driven all the time), but it's been a great time and I'll tell you my experience with the mystic or not...
https://twitter.com/nacin/status/402836401856581632
It's similar when it comes to the value of consultants in a team, as many companies can't see that....
I remember (back in time) when I was still using Slackware Linux. It is a Linux distribution maintained by Patrick Volkerding - the only person behind a project with thousands or tens of thousands of users (maybe more, who knows?). Occasionally the news section of the distro had a new post published that looked like: "I'm taking two weeks o...
I'm quite happy with what happened in 2013 and I'm grateful to everyone who supported me in any way during my endeavor :)
WordPress Core
The most significant accomplishment for me was finally getting some of my patches in the WordPress Core. I have contributed more than 15 patches to the core in 3.7 and 3.8, and I'm determined to continue ...
