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Idea: “Theme Check” for plugins
WPCandy published a great post on plugins and the numbers of plugins to be used per website. Recently more and more developers do complain about the number of plugins that a client is running. But nobody asks the real question: how many of these plugins are actually of _high quality_? From what I’ve encountered through…
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Xdebug on Ubuntu for WordPress
Turns out enabling Xdebug on Ubuntu for Eclipse PDT is easier than doing the same on Windows. The short version is installing the module as per this tutorial – http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=525257[bash]sudo apt-get install php5-dev php-pearsudo pecl install xdebug sudo updatedblocate xdebug (this one finds the xdebug path)sudo gedit /etc/php/apache2/php.ini[/bash] Adding this line (/w the path):[bash]zend_extension=”/usr/lib/php5/20060613/xdebug.so”sudo /etc/init.d/apache2…
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Java is not JavaScript
Recently I’ve been taking notes on some tweets and job offers from different individuals and companies around the world and there are 2 common mistakes I see everywhere: WordPress is spelled exactly like this – with a capital ‘W’ and a capital ‘P’. Please don’t hire people for yourself if you are not aware of…
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Git and GitHub for SVN developers
My latest post on contribution tips I learned from scribu was mostly influenced by his work on GitHub on projects such as WP-CLI or wp-posts-to-posts, and his setup over there. I also had a few related contribution-related posts before than (and several more to come in the next few months). Ajay commented on one of them asking…
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The Low Barrier of WordPress
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…
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On WordPress and Working Smarter
Today I found two brilliant posts that I would like to share with as many people as possible. While everyone is focused on what the market says or what seems natural, occasionally there are many obvious factors that are left unnoticed and could affect our entire life and career. The first article that I’ve read…
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WT:Social And The New Age Of Social Networks
I’ve been following Jimmy Wales for years and I’m extremely excited to sign up for his latest project: WT:Social. If you’ve heard of WikiTribune before, WT:Social takes a similar take on social networks after the endless number of scandals around Facebook. The new social network just crossed 110,000 users and quickly picks up traction among…