Category: Business

  • Invites for the big day

    I don’t blog too much personal things here, which I’ll probably start doing more here and less about WordPress in the future, but wanted to take a minute and post up our invites for the wedding.

  • Top 3 Ways to Be a Better Software Developer

    A couple of days ago, I was asked by a friend if I’d compile a list of ways you could become a better software developer. This is my growing list of tips and tricks I’ve found useful through the years. If you aren’t sure what a code monkey, code ninja, or any of those other…

  • Hosting Update: Why I’ll stay with Digital Ocean

    A few months ago, I posted how I switched to Digital Ocean, as my hosting service provider. I haven’t really came back to it, so today I thought I’d just give a quick update. Site Became Unresponsive It’s been with Digital Ocean since Jan. 16th and can say I’ve had a few issues with them.…

  • Moved to a New Host for a New Year

    I’ve been wanting to get back into blogging on a more regular basis. I’ve been working on a lot of cool things, and when I feel like I have time, I jot down some ideas and create them as drafts here. They have yet to come to fruition… That’s about to change. I started the…

  • New Design for a New Year!

    I always work on polishing off my blog around the first of the year and this year is no different. One of the things I wanted to do was try running my own custom theme again. If you weren’t aware, I’ve been a big advocate of Headway Themes for the past couple of years. Since…

  • Inspiring Action through Simon Sinek

    Have you ever thought about selling a product or service? Or how about how so many people consistently stand in long lines when new Apple devices come out? Today I wanted to post about an older TED Talk by Simon Sinek. I came across this the other day before starting a redesign, and wanted to…

  • 7 Easy Ways to Improve Your SEO on Your WordPress Site

    Have you recently started a blog but started to notice you aren’t getting the traffic you wanted? Are you not getting the traffic you want? Today we’re going to take a look at 7 easy ways to improve your SEO right off the bat! Submit Your Site to Google, Bing, and Yahoo I’m sure this…

  • Resurrecting My Blog

    Well I figured it was only fitting a few months after I made myself a goal of blogging more (again) that I’d find time for other things, but not blogging on this site. It’s funny because while I said I was going to blog more on here, I’ve actually been blogging over at Headway Themes and…

  • Choosing a WordPress Theme You’ll Love!

    Continuing from my previous post, I thought I would tell you about the process I took to select a theme, the requirements that it had to meet, which themes I decided on, and which ones made the cut. During the summer of 2009, I started freelancing for various friends, family and small businesses. Because my…

  • Why I Moved from Rails to WordPress Development

    A few years ago, I made a big life altering decision to move back from Ruby on Rails development to WordPress development. The first real programming language I learned was PHP. I started with WordPress back in 2005 but shortly after that I abandoned it for Ruby on Rails. It was popular and not a…