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As a leader, you are always looking for ways to improve yourself as well as your team. In this digital age where knowledge is abundant and easily accessible, staying ahead of the curve and learning new skills is easier than ever. I want to share with you how you can identify areas of your career…
Thinking of hiring an executive coach? It’s natural to feel a bit daunted at the thought. After all, coaching is about personal development, and it can be challenging to put yourself on the line in front of someone you don’t know very well. How much do you trust this person to keep your secrets? Do…
In the early days of a startup, you may have to wear many different hats. Depending on your company’s size and needs, marketing tasks may fall on one person or a small group. Whether you’re leading the effort alone or with others, hiring great team members will make your work more efficient and effective. That…
I wrote previously about my attempt at finding the perfect setup and after I’ve been using this a few days, I am feeling more confident that this was the right choice. It may not be the right choice for everyone, but for me, 99% of my time, I can complete my work whether it’s traveling…
Setting goals is never more true, than in a startup. In our fast-paced, high-pressure world, it can seem like everyone is setting goals and resolutions. And while that’s great, what isn’t so great is that so many of those goals go unachieved. But you don’t have to be a statistic; you can set measurable, achievable…
I’ve been on a couple of quests recently to use my iPad as my daily driver and to explore FSE theme building.. Both of those quests collided for me as I’ve been having trouble using the code editor apps that are available for iPadOS. Thankfully, the folks over at VSCode/Microsoft/GitHub have made a way for…
Alright.. Honest truth time. I failed at about everything I tried today to get started with the Theme.json file. So much so, that you wouldn’t want to watch a video of me fumbling through documentation, etc. I think that says a lot about the level of documentation that’s still needed for the average user. At…
Today is the day.. I’m chronicling my journey through creating a full-site editing theme. I’m going to be writing out my experience here, but if you’d rather go through it on video, I’m going through that way as well. I’m really excited about this. I think WordPress theme building is going to be a lot…
When I first started bufilding WordPress themes, was fairly simple. As long as you had some basic HTML and CSS skills, you could quickly transfer that into PHP and you could have a theme in no time. I remember building my first theme. I used the WordPress theme hierarchy as my digital map of what…
Do you ever wake up feeling like you just don’t get enough done in the day? Are you tried by mid-afternoon only feeling like your list is as long as it was when you first started the day?? I’ve been there. I even wrote about how I plan my week. But let’s talk about each…
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WordPress 3.0 should be released any day now as it’s currently on an RC 2. I thought it fitting that I would devote a post to the software that I love so much. Version 2.9, also known as Carmen McRae, was released on December 18, 2009. Starting in January, development for WordPress 3.0 started. Since…
When I decided to relaunch this blog I knew that just a new redesign wasn’t going to bring people back. I needed to do something else. That being said I decided that I was going to give myself a goal of X number of posts per week. The way I am going to accomplish this…
I decided to take the summer (and part of the fall) to attend as many WordCamps as I could. I started out by checking out the list??here and then started to see which ones I could drive to within a day or so. I then found 6??that I could go to and they are:??Columbus,Iowa,??Savannah,??Baltimore,??Detroit, and??St.…
I’m pleased to be relaunching this site today, especially on my birthday! I decided to hold off another week so that I could get a few more posts done, and a few more little things working right with this blog. I am pretty happy with the results of waiting for a week. Over the past…
If found it a little difficult yesterday to figure out how to get growl notifications working until @colognerunner told me how he got it working. Figured there were others that were having problems, so I make a quick little screencast showing you what I did.
I recently came across Objective Resource for developing iPhone applications that talk with a Rails backed website. According to the site, ObjectiveResource is an Objective-C port of Ruby on Rails’ ActiveResource. It provides a way to serialize objects to and from Rails’ standard RESTful web-services (via XML or JSON) and handles much of the complexity…
So I made some changes to Twitpress so I’m testing them to see if they work. I’m not sure if I should use this or Twitterfeed.?? I would like it to be a shortened URL, so either use tinyURL or some other service would be helpful. What does everyone else use? UPDATE: So I was…
I saw a post like this last weekend and thought that it’s time that I do one of these again myself. Everyone seems to change what they use every now and then, so I though by updating this maybe it would get other people to look at what they use and maybe make a post…
An Apple Product Security technician has identified multiple vulnerabilities with Ruby, which if exploited could be used in denial of service attacks. It does not have to be just Mac OS X that this afects. It looks like it’s all versions based on the official post from the Ruby development team.?? To find out what…
So I’ve been getting a little busy at work lately, and while I’d like to really take you guys through a ToDo list tutorial, I just don’t have the time right now to work on that, while learning Rails 2.0, and then working on getting a ToDo list app working as well.?? Rather than leave…