Software Engineering in Web Development, Backend Services, and More
Yesterday, I share a bit about a Tumblr that was recently started focusing specifically on Developer Practices.
In short, the blog is nothing more than a collection of animated GIFs that are a humorous attempt to look the developer best practices. But based on some feedback, others want to contribute.
And I love that.
One of the things that’s becoming more and more common is that certain critics are claiming that we’re becoming more and more of a narcissistic society with our constant sharing of things on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, blogs, and so on.
I don’t know if I observation really holds water or not – rarely are things black and white, so I’m sure it’s true in some cases – but I’ve never really considered blogging in and of itself of be narcissistic.
This isn’t to say it can’t be, but I don’t think that it – as a medium – is meant to feed that particular aspect of the human condition.
There are two absolutely amazing things that the Internet has brought us:
And when you combine the two together, you get some seriously good stuff, right?
Just a little over a year ago, I released my WordPress Category Sticky Post plugin. The initial concept was simple:
Category Sticky Post for WordPress is a plugin that allows you to mark a post as sticky within a specific category archive. It works exactly like the typical sticky post functionality within WordPress, except that it’s specifically for category archives.
And not a lot has changed since the first release.
Yes, I’ve made minor improvements here and there as evidenced by the changelog, but today I’m happy to officially release the second version of the plugin.
For the most part, I try to keep the majority of the work that I do stored digitally. This usually includes using tools like:
When it comes to taking notes, I’m no different. Now, I’m not 100% digital – there’s still nothing tops sketching in a moleskine or on paper – however, there’s something to be said for being able to carry nothing but an iPad and a stylus for taking notes.
And when it comes to that, I’ve found no better application than Bamboo Paper
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