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Speaking at WordCamp San Francisco 2 Jul 2013 | 06:37 pm
WordCamp San Francisco has announced their final round of speakers, and that includes me. I’m giving an advanced development talk on Saturday called Current User Can Watch This Talk. Props to fellow l...
Firefox makes a decision, removes an option 1 Jul 2013 | 07:04 pm
Back in 2011, I wrote about how we need to make decisions in open source. This is not a new idea — it is rooted in the guiding philosophies for WordPress to make decisions, not options. Perhaps unsur...
America runs on Dunkin, but new DC location snubs those in wheelchairs 26 Jun 2013 | 11:47 pm
Want to go here? You can, as long as you’re able to walk. D.C. patrons of a new Dunkin’ Donuts on K Street can enter a raffle tomorrow to win 52 free cups of coffee. Well, it might be a little diffi...
Keynoting php[tek] in Chicago, May 14-17 11 Apr 2013 | 10:33 pm
I’m excited to announce I’m giving a keynote address at php[tek] 2013. It’s a fantastic PHP conference put on by the folks behind php|architect. “The premier professional PHP conference with a communi...
Donate to Movember 1 Dec 2012 | 02:18 am
A month of very long days working on WordPress 3.5 has made growing my Movember beard easy. But it’s also meant no time to raise any donations. Help fight prostate and testicular cancer with a small d...
iPads in education 26 Oct 2012 | 04:25 am
What a headline from Talking Points Memo: Apple iPad Mini May Cause Problems For Education, McGraw Hill Exec Says. The interview is a doozy, but this whining from McGraw Hill senior vice president Vin...
Page templates in subdirectories, new in WordPress 3.4 30 Mar 2012 | 04:33 am
In WordPress 3.4, themes can now place page templates inside a subdirectory of their theme. I’ve spent much of the 3.4 development cycle working on a new API called WP_Theme. But it’s not something y...
WordPress: So Easy a Congressman Can Do It 16 Mar 2012 | 06:47 am
The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform launched a new site on WordPress today. This is really cool for a few reasons. Rep. Darrell Issa tweeted about it this morning, saying WordP...
What WordPress Post Forking could do to Editorial Workflows 2 Mar 2012 | 01:37 pm
GitHub for Journalism — What WordPress Post Forking could do to Editorial Workflows, by Ben Balter. Ben was a 2011 Google Summer of Code student, where he wrote a really great WordPress plugin called ...
Donate $100 to Jitterbug and I’ll review your plugin 2 Mar 2012 | 01:16 pm
Jitterbug Bakery: Eat. Drink. Blog. As I work full time on the WordPress project, I don’t do consulting. But! If you donate $100 to Jane’s Jitterbug Kickstarter project, I’ll do a code review and secu...
