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WordPress IRC Chats Schedule
Since I tend to forget when most WordPress dev chats are or pick wrong time zones instead, I set up a small weekly schedule with weekly IRC chats: http://devwp.eu/chats/ I got the schedules from the Make blogs and listed them with custom post type entries in a calendar. The handy thing is that one can control…
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8 Tips for Technical Speakers
As a seasoned technical speaker at the Telerik Academy, I received an invitation for one of my favorite technical events – DevReach. Despite the fact that I am too biased with Open Source and normally try to stay away from Microsoft and other companies relying mostly on closed source products, it’s always helpful to see…
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Theme Reviews, Guidelines and Community
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…
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The Ten Years Linux Journey
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…
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2013 Overview and 2014 Goals
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…
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The Right People Behind a Business
I’ve had a few conversations over the last month with people who have contacted me for work lately and we’ve had a meeting or two (or currently work together). I rarely check my leads and referrals when they contact me through my blog or Twitter, which is a bad habit and I’m catching up now,…
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The $15 WordPress gig
Three weeks ago I received the following message on LinkedIn: Hello, I’m looking for someone who could customize a WordPress plugin we bought. It’s a car reservation system, we need to change the pricing model and add a few extra SQL tables that would operate with the plugin. The contact is a manager of some small…
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WordPress Developers – Interview with David Bisset
Our last interview in the Google+ WordPress Developers community is with David Bisset – a BuddyPress freelancer from Florida, one of the WordCamp Miami organizers, recognized WordPress expert and the creator of WP Armchair. David and I discussed the freelancing business of his and I find it quite amusing (in a good way, just like I…