When Reading Got Boring
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Normally I’m a voracious reader, to the tune of at least a book a week. I read everything from The Natural History of BC to Professional WordPress Plugin Development. I throw a bit of fiction in from time to time but really I normally try to make my reading learning focussed. Recently I just was…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Contemplating Amalgamation
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Currently I have 4 blogs that I run and write for as the sole contributor. You can read about me and cycling, Apps and Productivity, and WordPress. This has me spread thin on actual posting on the sites and spreads traffic to my content to many spots. Lately I’ve been contemplating pulling 2 of the…
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…
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…
Microsoft Arc Keyboard Review
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As a programmer I sit in front of a keyboard for at least 8 hours a day. Since I love what I do I often work on personal projects or contribute to open source software after formal work hours. That means a lot of typing and for a lot of typing you need the right…
Telus Canada and a Crappy Site
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Rant warning. Just trying to get my bill from Telus (my local ISP) and what do I find, but a site that won’t load my eBills in Chrome. It works in Firefox and [according to Telus](https://twitter.com/telussupport/status/153956173152927744) it works in IE9 but only if you use compatibility mode. Telus Canada get your head out of your…
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