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Don’t Over-Engineer Your Project

January 6, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

Over the last few days, I’ve been building the site that’s going to power the membership aspects of the WordPress Development course I’m working on. Initially, I went into the project like any other developer: I was ready to sit down, start writing code, handle a bunch of configuration, and generally tweak my WordPress installation at a level that I was convinced would take me a long time.

But it wasn’t like that at all.

And that’s something I know developers are plagued with more often than they – or we – would like to admit:

We over-engineer our solutions all of the time.

It doesn’t have to be like that, though. It takes a slightly different approach and it requires that we fight our natural inclinations, but it can be done.

It just requires a more pragmatic approach.

Sharing Project Files on OS X

January 5, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

If you’re used to working on OS X or a Linux-based distribution and you need to share project files with a peer, it’s not always as easy as being able to drop a file in Dropbox or send a single file via email.

Case in point: Whenever I work on screencasts or demo videos for client files, I use Screenflow in order to capture video and audio. But because of the way I setup screencasting, I use a separate user account on my machine.

This means that I need to share project projects between the account used for screencasting and the account I use for everything else.

Want a Pressware Shirt?

January 4, 2016 / Tom

In all of the time I’ve worked for myself, I’ve only attempted to print a Pressware shirt once. Even then, I placed an order for about 20 or so (and they were mainly used to give to friends and family).

Pressware Shirts

For 2016, I’d love to change that so for the first time, I’m holding a TeeSpring Campaign where I’m having some shirts printed up. At the time of this writing, the minimum order has already been fulfilled (which is really humbling); however, I wanted to let everyone know about this.

The only goal isn’t just to have some shirts made, though. It’s to help promote you, your work, or whatever cause you’d like mentioned here on this blog.

Happy New Year 2016

January 1, 2016 / Tom

I don’t know if you stumbled across this post my accident, via Twitter, or via RSS, but whatever the case: Happy New Year!

Usually, it’s a good time to write about the previous year, what we’re looking to do in the year to come, and talk about some of what we’ve learned in the past year and how we hope to apply it moving forward.

This is not that post.

Must Read WordPress Articles 2

December 31, 2015 / Tom

About a week ago, I shared a round up of posts that I thought made for some good reading during the downtime the holidays inevitably bring.

Pocket

I also mentioned that I have a tendency to throw things into Pocket and leave them there until I have time to read them on my own. Whenever I come across a handful of really good WordPress articles, I’ve been saving them until I have enough to share here on the site.