Category: welcome to the working week
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Permission to say “no”
CreativeMornings • During his CreativeMornings/NewYork Benefit talk,….
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WordPress + Koding == Awesome
I just discovered that you can install a live WP site on Koding. Here’s how I set mine up: WordPress on Koding | jazzsequence on Koding.
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The first rule of functions…
The first rule of functions is that they should be small. The second rule of functions is that they should be smaller than that. Functions should not be 100 lines long. Functions should hardly ever be 20 lines long. What Constitutes Clean Code in WordPress? – @tommcfarlin (original quote from Clean Code by Bob Martin)
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Search Engine Optimized breadcrumbs
I had a need to build some search engine optimized breadcrumbs for a project I’m working on right now. I didn’t want to just use Yoast’s breadcrumbs, because I’m using Twitter Bootstrap, and I wanted to make use of the built-in breadcrumbs support, so I did a Google, found something, tweaked it and am using…
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Building plugin-like functionality into WordPress themes: to be, or not to be?
There’s been a lot of talk in the WordPress world about whether or not theme developers should build plugin-like functionality into WordPress themes. After my presentation at WordCamp SLC 2012, it was actually something I was asked about. Seeing how it was a topic of discussion on wpmail.me via ManageWP, I thought I’d throw my 2…
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Museum Core listed in WPCandy’s Theme Release Roundup
…and in case you haven’t seen my (numerous, ecstatic) tweets, Facebook shares, etc…Museum Core was listed on a little blog called WPCandy… The Weekly WordPress Theme Release Roundup | WPCandy.
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Simple time management for dummies
Make a list of all the stuff you need to get done. Create deadlines for each item.* Do it. And keep to your deadlines. I don’t know what the fucking problem is. We aren’t in kindergarten anymore, we can take responsibility for our own work. Constantly being interrupted by Twitter, email, phone, IM? Turn them…
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New gig
As of today, I have a new gig. The longer story is that things have been slow in the web design front. My going theory is that the industry — especially given the economy; that great excuse we’ve been using for everything from health care to what store we shop at — is moving toward…
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learning to do less
i just got done reading Seth Godin’s manifesto, Do Less. i’ve actually been reading quite a bit of Seth Godin recently, having decided that his blog is pretty cool. Seth Godin is a smart guy. he’s not saying anything revolutionary — in fact, a lot of what he blogs about should be common sense. but…
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what do you do with a kangaroo?
“What do you do with a Kangaroo who jumps in your window, sits on your bed, and says, ‘I never sleep on wrinkled sheets, so change them now and make them smooth, and fluff up the pillows if you please’ What do you do?” there’s an old book by mercer mayer, before he did the…