Archive for the ‘Inspiration’ Category

It’s been over a month since Client Oriented WordPress Development hit the shelves and I’ve learned quite a bit about the process along the way. I’m sure there are a lot of people contemplating the same exact project so I’d like to offer a bit more insight to the inspiration, the process, and the aftermath of my experience.

I have no idea what I'm doing by Nathan Kontny. If your experience is anything like mine 99 out of 100 colleagues or coworkers you’ve met are self taught. School simply can’t keep up with what we’re doing on the level it can with other industries. That’s not to knock school, but it something we [...]

Why Javascript is a Joy. If I were forced to choose one thing to explain what I’m most excited about in my job it would have to be JavaScript. It feels like the Wild West to a degree out here, and people are doing some amazing things with it. There is immense knowledge to be [...]

Enemy Airship! . The Finite, Irreplaceable Hours of Your Life. Fantastically inspirational. This hit home with me today because my wife and I are currently undergoing a flat out absence of TV in observation of Lent. For the past few weeks the only TV I’ve seen is the accidental glance when we were at someone [...]

Forgotten TODOs: ideas for contributing to open-source projects. What a fantastic, simple, straightforward piece of advice to offer. I’m not sure if you’re making use of TODO’s in your programming but I surely am. I often see them scattered around open source projects and for one reason or another it escapes me as an outright [...]

pydanny: Github is my resume. GitHub achieving it’s goal of social coding based on an awesome version control system is one (amazing) thing, but the byproduct of your profile acting as a resume is simply stellar. I’ve been in hiring positions before, and resumes are by far the worst thing I’ve had to deal with [...]

Do Things, Tell People.. I really like this piece. We’ll always be distracted by big dollar signs, productivity, optimization, and all the other things we think will make us more “successful”. Sometimes though, we need to just build whatever the heck we want, even if it might suck. Who cares. If you’re into it you’re [...]

Front-end Job Interview Questions. I like posts like this not because I plan on putting myself in a position of hiring people any time soon, but to keep myself in check. This is a good list to sift through and see which areas of yours are weak. Make a conscious effort to tackle those issues [...]

How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI – (37signals). This is super neat. 37signals outlines a big look into what they did behind the scenes when building Basecamp Next, specifically the changes made on the client side. There is some wacky stuff going on but I’m super interested [...]

You’re Overthinking It | Miso Engineering. There’s a lot of truth in this post. I’ve spoken to many designers and developers who are simply intimidated by what everyone else is doing. I know it’s completely cliche but honestly: who cares? Your idea sucks, now go do it anyway. Sure there’s some hyperbole, but when it [...]