Welcome to Space
This is my new office chair, which purportedly will be good for my back and looks like something from the future. I don't yet understand what its various levers do. Beam me up, Scotty. Tagged:...
View ArticleStarting the Knoxville WordPress Meetup
Back in September, I started the Knoxville WordPress Meetup group, and we’ve been meeting ever since. Last week, Jane Wells, who does project management (and many other things) for the downloadable...
View ArticleWordCamp ATL Friday Sessions
I’m in Atlanta this weekend for WordCamp ATL at the Savannah College of Art and Design. My hotel is a half a mile or so from the building, an easy enough walk (if not a particularly scenic one). You...
View ArticleDrawNothing
A couple of weeks ago, I started playing a fun game on my phone called DrawSomething. It’s a really addictive game, enough so that it made me think a little bit about how the things that work about the...
View ArticleCustom Feed Links in WordPress
At a WordPress meetup tonight, the question arose of how to override default feed links for a WordPress site. For example, what if you’re using FeedBurner and want to just change the links in your...
View ArticleColorized Svn Diffs in Sparrow
For a year now, I’ve had mail forwarded from my work email to my personal so that I could check mail in only once place. With some vacation on the way and not wanting to have thousands of messages...
View ArticleJaffa
This week on a trip to Israel for my job, I went with my coworkers to the port of Jaffa. You may recognize the name as the city from which Jonah is supposed to have left on his fateful voyage. It’s...
View ArticleThe Dead Sea
Some coworkers and I went to the Dead Sea while on a team meetup in Israel. My lower body’s too dense to float under normal circumstances (my legs just sink… like… stones), but I was assured I’d float...
View ArticleJerusalem
I visited Jerusalem on a recent trip with coworkers. Although I’m not religious, it was still a neat experience. Lots of history. My photos follow. Tagged: israel, photos, travel, work
View ArticleLisbon
I’ve just returned from meeting up with some coworkers in Lisbon, Portugal. It’s the prettiest city I’ve been to. I loved how the terra cotta roofs contrasted with the colors of the buildings, the...
View Articlewp make-wxr
As part of my day job, I’ve lately been looking at trying to improve the performance of WXR imports into WordPress.com. This has meant, so far, lots of testing and profiling of code, and it’s meant my...
View ArticleUsing xdebug with wp-cli
Sometimes when you want to profile something in WordPress using xdebug, it’s not quite as straightforward as just enabling the tool in php.ini and passing a query string parameter. Say for example that...
View ArticleThe Year Without Pants
This summer, I attended a really good local conference called CodeStock at which I also sat in on what turned out to be a really bad session on being a remote worker. The original speaker for the...
View ArticleCardiff
In April, I went to Cardiff, Wales to do work on a project for my job. We got lots of work done but also did a fair amount of tourism. The coolest thing for me was visiting the Doctor Who experience...
View ArticleUtah
I spent last week in Park City, Utah at the Canyons resort with coworkers. I had my first fly fishing experience, took a couple of short hikes, helped a few of my company’s support staff refine some...
View ArticleLas Palmas
My team at work spent a few days last week at Las Palmas, on Gran Canaria — one of the canary islands. The islands are part of Spain but are geographically much closer to the northwest coast of Africa....
View ArticlePatch
For my day job, I have the whimsical title “Happiness Gardener.” Honestly I don’t love the title. When asked to provide my title for paperwork, I tend to just say “developer” since that’s the sort of...
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