Comments for Monday By Noon

Comment on I’m tired of the opportunists and their hackathons by Jack McDade

Jack McDade — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:27:14 +0000

I feel ya dudester. I code for me, i code for money, or i code for fun. There are so many things that are none of those. Gotta see who’s behind it, who benefits from it.

IMO, Hackathons can be the LAN Parties of our college years if done right :)

Comment on I’m tired of the opportunists and their hackathons by Jonathan Christopher

Jonathan Christopher — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:55:01 +0000

You’re completely right. I say I like the idea of it but I can’t remember the last time I actually participated. It’s great to hear that the events you’ve been attending haven’t been pulled away from the goal of being a positive experience for the devs themselves!

Comment on I’m tired of the opportunists and their hackathons by Mubashar Iqbal

Mubashar Iqbal — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:52:49 +0000

“I’m just so much more intrigued by the prospect of a few buddies getting together and building something for themselves, for the education of it, but most of all for the fun of it.”

One reason I do like hack-a-thons is the focus they give you. Far too often getting a few friends together to work on something never happens ;-)

Totally agree on doing things for fun though. I went into the last event I attended with the expectation it would be a fun weekend and would be far away from a “business” at the end. Went for the fun and experience, and had a blast.

Comment on • Writing my First Ebook – One Month Later & at Least 7 Lessons Learned by Jean Galea

Jean Galea — Tue, 22 May 2012 10:57:42 +0000

I’ve been waiting for this post Jonathan :) Thanks for going into so much detail and sharing the whole process, I really love the way you go about in sharing your workflow and processes, you’re really good at it and readers can definitely learn a lot from you.

For anyone out there still considering buying the book, all I can say is that this post is a reflection of what is inside the book, Jonathan has the gift of explaining things at just the right level so you can just dive into things yourself with the knowledge you glean from the book.

Comment on • Proud to Debut: Client Oriented WordPress Development by Writing my First Ebook - One Month Later - Monday By Noon

Writing my First Ebook - One Month Later - Monday By Noon — Tue, 22 May 2012 04:56:04 +0000

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Comment on • Using OmniFocus and Project Management Software to Get Things Done on a Team by Svet

Svet — Mon, 21 May 2012 06:20:27 +0000

The solution is that every person will choose the software which is more suitable for them. As for me I am using Comindware task management which helps me to organize my time and the time of my team, set tasks and reach deadline and some people may think that it is not enough, but for me it is more than enough.

Comment on • Revisiting Custom Post Types, Custom Taxonomies, and Permalinks by cokke

cokke — Sun, 20 May 2012 20:24:57 +0000

Thanks for the article… working for me.. :)

Comment on SASS vs. LESS by Jonathan Christopher

Jonathan Christopher — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:49:11 +0000

Yeah, getting used to having Sass watch your compile directories can be infuriating at first when you're saving changes and nothing is happening. I'd definitely suggest that you check out CodeKit, a GUI app that very nicely will watch your Sass directories for you. That's just the tip of the iceberg; that app does tons more awesome stuff.

Comment on SASS vs. LESS by Anthony Terrell

Anthony Terrell — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:39:05 +0000

The few projects I’ve worked with SASS on have been a nuisance to say the least. I too felt that it positioned me farther away from my styles and it almost seemed pointless. I don’t think I’ve really experienced it’s raw power, and I think you’re right about saving time long term.

One thing I did run into trouble was getting into the habit of running a sass –watch on the directory that housed the .SASS files. I wrote an alfred script for it to make it easier, though still from time to time I sometimes forget.

This has definitely inspired me to take a better look at SASS and maybe get a library going on git.

Comment on • Building a Store Locator with WordPress and Pods by Eyal

Eyal — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:31:44 +0000

Hi Jonathan,
i just done developing a beta version for a radius search plugin. you can check it out at http://www.wpplaceslocator.com. if you dont mind i added a “thanks” link in the “about” page back to your tutorial since this is where i got the main idea from.
Thanks again