Tag: Selected

  • Introverts Are Great In Sales And Marketing

    Despite my tendency to get involved with public speaking at conferences and universities, as well as being a band member, I still define myself as an introvert, which is a unique perspective that informs my approach to introvert marketing. I don’t enjoy large crowds and clubs full of people, and I have a small circle…

  • Over-abstractionism

    Coming from the JEE world, I was used to adding several layers of abstraction for high level enterprise projects. Even back then, I was trying to evaluate the necessity of some of the layers. PHP is an interesting language, currently the most popular scripting (or maybe any programming) language at all for web projects. Developed…

  • WordPress Product Marketing – the Right Way

    I browse and read a lot (articles, code) on a daily basis, I tend to forget quickly due to the tons of data that passes through my head (I normally have about 5 windows with 20 Chrome tabs open each). I read a great post by Brian Krogsgard on marketing WordPress products on Wed and I…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • WordPress Services and My Pricing Strategy

    Pricing has always been a painful topic for everyone, both clients and contractors/companies. Clients try to keep it as low as possible (normally) and contractors try to earn more (again, normally). There are quite a few videos, books, tutorials and blog posts on the subject, and not as many people talking about that. Chris Lema is…

  • The slippery slope of WordPress customizations

    There are two things I highly admire in the WordPress ecosystem: being able to precisely budget small projects (where the tiniest error could ruin the entire profit, if not more) and do freelance customization work. We own a small brand under the DevriX hat called Premium WordPress Support, which started as a support engine for…

  • The Salary Factor

    Last week Eric Mann posted his 2014 Salary Survey Results covering some rough figures about our industry and the average salaries paid for different levels of experience. I like aggregated data in general, and it would be nice if more people take on that sort of studies in 2015, extending their horizons across the entire world, including web development…