Recently, I've been thinking about the state of plugins. In my previous post I've mentioned the free and premium plugins, and additionally I could split them in other categories, such as: small and large, self-contained and extensible, user-oriented and developer-related, optimized and non-optimized.
I could go further with secure/insecure...
Coen Jacobs wrote a post recently, asking Is WordPress Too Easy? I was about to follow-up on that, but due to time constraints, my thoughts flew away, but I felt the urge to do a part 2 on that series, with some other thoughts.
What is WordPress?
No, I'm not going to define that as most people are already in the industry. But I keep getting ...
In April Scott Basgaard organized the first virtual WordPress conference called WordSesh. It's a 24-hours online event with presentations starting at 0 o'clock UTC. Scott managed to pull an all-nighter (which was literally 24h managing all the things) so major props for his organization skills and devotion :)
I wrote a quick post after the...
tl;dr readers: no, but yes :) Read below for more brainstorming.
Last year most people around me who are not involved in the WordPress community kept saying: "WordPress is a simple blogging platform and wouldn't work for large projects". I gave a talk in April that shed some light on few of the largest platforms/sites available out there, b...
I have that habit of selecting text snippets while I read (like adding breakpoints every few lines), but still I find it quite helpful when I can share a given snippet in an article by selecting it and sharing it through a popup.
I found the WP Selected Text Sharer in the repo and it looks pretty close to what I need, however it hasn't bee...
I had a trip to Porto for WordCamp Porto earlier this month and I gave a talk on my experience with "WordPress Setup for Large Projects". Porto is a great city with an active community from Portugal (Porto, Lisbon and other cities too) and it was a pleasure to hang out there for a few days, drink some sangrias, eat some francesinhas and defi...
Last weekend was quite important for the Open Source world - in addition to several WordPress events (such as WordCamp Porto, WordCamp Kenya and WP Camp), the Joomla folks had their Joomla World Conference. The noble thing this year was Matt's presence there, being one of the keynote speakers presenting on Sunday.
http://www.youtube.com/wat...
My talk at WordCamp Sofia two weeks ago was related to choosing the right WordPress theme. Slides are available here.
The gist of the talk was making users cautious about their WordPress sites and managing their stack properly, especially in the WordPress context. I find it quite common for users to browse for random, free hacked themes and...
I've accidentally started a long discussion due to a small and fairly insignificant bug that turned out to be more than enough for several major theme authors, reviewers and theme lead devs to chime in and share their thoughts. I usually try to avoid those scenarios, but every now and then the tension needs to be released.
These are my obse...
Ever since high school, I have always been suspicious when it comes to the switch statement in programming. It is quite intuitive if you think about it, but in my opinion it has various limitations in some scenarios:
it's error-prone by missing a break; clause here and there
chaining cases isn't always intuitive to read, in addition to th...
