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The Cloudways Podcast: WordPress Development

September 4, 2013 / Tom

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Late last month, I had the opportunity to be interviewed by Cloudways specifically on the topic of WordPress Development and Performance.

During the interview, I had the chance to discuss a number of things from when I got into WordPress, what I did prior to self-employment, and what I’m currently focused on now.

Why I Prefer To Use Hungarian Notation

September 3, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

When it coms to dynamic programming languages such as PHP and JavaScript, one of the things that people often debate is the use of hungarian notation.

Like most things with programmers, the debate can easily become something that resembles a religious argument. The debate normally hits on the following two points:

You shouldn’t have to use Hungarian Notation – the context of your code should provide enough information.
You should use Hungarian Notation – it helps with readability of the code.

For whatever it’s worth, I prefer to use Hungarian Notation. And though I’m not exactly one who elevates things to a heated debate, I’ve found as much as I’d like context to provide me with enough information, I don’t always see this as being the case in projects.

Run a Viable Business Book Launch

September 2, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

A couple of weeks ago, I shared that I was recently interviewed by Curtis McHale’s latest eBook Don’t Be An idiot: Learn To Run a Viable Business.

Last week, the book officially launched so it, along with the videos from those who participated, are all available for purchase. Here’s the run down (and a coupon code) for those of you who are interested in the book.

My Day-To-Day: Using Reminders To Get Things Done

August 30, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

Earlier this year, I talked about how I use Things to help get things done. Since that post, a few things have changed.

As I alluded to last week, I’ve been purging a lot of stuff in my online life in an attempt to greatly increase the signal to noise ratio such that I’ve really only got the things I need to get done (or things that I enjoy doing) in order to make sure that I am as focused as can be with as few distractions as possible.

One of the transitions that I’ve been working on in the last few months is migrating my “Getting Things Done” model from Things to Apple’s Reminders application.

Optimizing WordPress on Media Temple DV

August 29, 2013 / Tom

I am no longer using Media Temple as my web host, so comments have been closed.

Though it’s typically applied to software, I tend to apply the YAGNI mentality to other things, as well. That is to say that I’d rather wait and upgrade when I need something rather than pay for something that I may never need.

Case in point: A couple of weeks ago, I outgrew my current host and needed to upgrade so I ended up going with Media Temple DV hosting.

In most shared hosting environments, you use whatever configuration they give you; however, because of the nature of the DV environment, the server is completely yours. That means that you’re responsible for tweaking Apache, PHP, and MySQL to make sure that it’s working best for your needs.

So what would a migration to a VPS environment be without a little bit of tweaking?