Category: Random

  • Gravity Forms and SugarCRM Plugin Featured

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    Click the link to see the profile on Sugarforge for my Gravity Forms SugarCRM plugin. They did a profile on me and the plugin. You can see the original post and screencast here

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  • Helping our Clients Test

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    If you’ve trained your testers properly. and you no doubt have, then they will be giving you bug reports with detailed steps to reproduce the bug. That, my friends, is programmers heaven. (emphasis mine) I’ve been reading The Career Programmer and while there are lots of things that make me remember ‘bad clients’ and ‘bad…

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  • Shipped Code or ?

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    Prompted by a question about the term ‘shipping code’ I’ve got a short explanation. Shipped code is not just code that has been committed to your version control system. It’s not code that you wrote and is sitting in some folder somewhere. Shipped code is tested and deployed in some live environment. I classify a…

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  • Some Goals – Not New Year’s Resolutions

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    Wanted to put a few of my goals out there just so that others know about them and I can’t cut out as easy. WordPress Finish a Product I’ve got more than one idea for a product with WordPress. Everything from training resources to full on plugins that I want and don’t see in the…

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  • Where Did MarsEdit Go?

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    While listening to Mac Power Users do a workflow show with Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software I realized that I couldn’t remember the last time I opened MarsEdit when writing a blog post, it wasn’t even installed on my computer anymore. I even wrote that it was the best desktop blogging tool for Mac…

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  • Going DVORAK in a QWERTY World

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    I’ve been looking for the perfect keyboard for a while, simply because I type all day (watch for my up coming review of the Freestyle Solo). Most people focus on hardware when they look at comfortable typing, but there is more to typing comfort than simply the keyboard you use. The original QWERTY keyboard was…

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  • Web Designer Magazine Article – Pick the Perfect WordPress Theme

    Web Designer Magazine Article – Pick the Perfect WordPress Theme

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    Web Designer 191 is out (at least in Europe and will be on shore in North America shortly), and with it comes a feature article titled ‘Pick the Perfect WordPress Theme’ which I wrote most of. You can get it digitally on you iOS device through Newsstand and in Chapters in Canada. I have no…

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  • Getting a New Desk

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    Over a year ago my wife and I were privileged to invite a little girl in to our lives, whome we named Eden. As we live in 2 bedroom house my office was changed in to a room for her and I moved my office in to our bedroom. In all honesty the office in…

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  • Distraction Free MacVim with Markdown

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    I’ve been using MacVim as my sole code editor for almost a year now and have started to modify the stock config presented in Janus. Today with the suggestion of @matthewlang I’ve got two new items to add to my .vim configuration. VimRoom Brings distraction free writing to Vim/MacVim. One thing I really find frustrating…

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  • New Project Lauch

    New Project Lauch

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    I’m reorganizing my sites and their content. I’ll be putting all my future writing on WordPress over at [WP Theme Tutorial][wpthemetut]. I’ll be covering a bunch of fairly deep topics so if you’re interested in learning more about how WordPress works and how to build projects with it go subscribe to the feed. [wpthemetut]: http://wpthemetutorial.curtisdev.ca/…

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