Unless you’ve happened to be living under a really large rock then you’re aware of all the craziness that’s happening around the NSA, Edward Snowden, and all the technology companies that are coming under fire for either contributing to breaches of privacy or being actively investigated. To be quite honest, it’s a little much for me. In principle I’m against anything that gives the government a tyrannical position with our private lives and information. Sounds unconstitutional at the very least. In regards to Snowden I’m mixed. I understand why some call him a hero while others call him a traitor. […]

A neat plugin that’s been underwraps has been given the greenlight to come out from hiding and it’s a new WordPress plugin for Google App Engine. Built by Bronson Quick and Sennza shared their thoughts on how they got to be a part of the Trusted Tester program for PHP for Google App Engine and how they eventually were asked to help develop the key plugin: They discovered the following: During the testing process we found that running WordPress on Google’s infrastructure has many benefits, as you can take advantage of their world class infrastructure that will scale up and […]

Although these two apps aren’t WordPress-specific I have found both of them to be quite useful and have simply loved the sheer simplicity of the user experience as well as the obvious effectiveness that’s been created. In a ever-increasing world of eCommerce for WordPress the temptation is to continue to add features instead of pull back slightly or at least think critically about what is needed and what is not needed. Many of them are bloated and simply too large to be much use for many people. That’s why these two inspire:

Yup, you’ve probably already heard (and already know) that the Twitter’s API 1.0 is now permanently gone. Kaput. Nada. I had many memories with that API and now that 1.1 is here you may be already in the swing of things fixing your applications and possible WordPress Themes and Plugins to adapt to the new protocol. Well, Alessandro Benoit may have saved you some time with a WordPress class to handle Oauth to the new API:

Want to know one additional way to get your customers, clients (future clients) to build a decent relationship with you? Perhaps you just need to send them this infographic and let it tell the complete story. This works well with developers too, I might add – anyone doing “creative” work and wants the freedom and flexibility to do their work without someone standing over them (virtually, perhaps) all the time. You see, this is how you woo a designer:

Besides being lovers of WordPress you’re also probably a lover of a few other coding and scripting languages as well, one of which might be JavaScript. It’s now such an essential piece of the web so how could you not? You may already have a good way to test the quality of your code but if not then you may want to check out this detection tool which might be very useful:

I woke this morning to more news that yet another known player in our relatively-large ecosystem and space may actually be getting into the WordPress Managed Hosting space. Tung Do, of DevPress, has been known to shake things up in the past with such things like a re-imagination of the WordPress dashboard, shared yesterday that he’s interested in getting into the hosting space and “revolutionize” experience: To create a more enjoyable and feature-packed service than WordPress.com. I’m not gunning for WP.com, but it’s the easiest way to explain what I’m going to build. And instead of re-inventing the wheel, I’ll use WP.com’s […]

Ok, we’ll cut to the chase on this one, shall we? Sub Posts enables you link posts to each other and display them on your WP site. Simple, right? You can can create custom posts type relationships without much work, which may be very useful if you’re building a site that needs some custom taxonomy. It’s got a developer API as well. This quick overview video may give you a better idea of what it’s about:

ManageWP, a well-known management solution for WordPress, announced that they’ve got an interesting “community project” that they are launching in 26 days or so. It’s because they love WordPress (no fooling) and is one way to help foster greater community around their neat new initiative. There’s nothing more than that outside of a new domain, ManageWP.org (notice the .org) and a landing page where you can sign up for more information:

After spending much of my life in the enterprise before moving into entrepreneurship and startup world I realized very quickly that titles and the formalities of position really mattered. It’s what makes “climbing the corporate ladder” even possible as there are rungs to walk up and, if you’re talented and lucky enough, to jump perhaps. Your title mattered and it established not just your position within the company – it established a baseline of your role and responsibilities, your pay grade, your access to resources and human capital, you’re ability to build relational equity, and even politicking. Your title preceded […]