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My Day To Day: Using Hangouts For iPhone

July 26, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

One of the things I like the most about using Apple devices is iMessages (or Messages as they’re called now, I believe).

Being able to keep threads of texts going regardless of the device that I’m on has become somewhat of a luxury that I really didn’t notice until I began keeping up texts with family members who are on Androids.

To be honest, I don’t know how long the application was out prior to when I started using, but I’ve ended up using Hangouts For iPhone and it’s solved the problem of keeping up with texts with family and friends on Android while also being able to continue conversations from my computer.

Shipping Software in WordPress (Why Perfection is Unattainable)

July 25, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

One of the blogs that I enjoy following – much like most developers, designers, and techies – is the 37signals blog.

Generally speaking, it’s a great blog to read if you’re into following a company’s philosophy and process, but one of the guys – Nick – shared a great post the other day that struck a chord with me personally as it relates to shipping software especially in the WordPress economy:

Shipping beats perfection.
Be open. Share your work.
Anybody can fix anything.

– Khan Academy’s development mantras are stunningly simple and powerful.

Good stuff, right?

But how exactly does this apply to me (or even others) in the digital publishing space.

Required – A Free WordPress Theme By 8BIT

July 25, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

The last time that 8BIT released a theme, it was in June of 2012. We had just dropped Standard 3 and although we’ve done iterations on the product almost every quarter, we’ve generally stayed hyper-focused on that single product in order to make it the absolute best that it can be.

As of of right now, 3.4 is in development and the theme is in a really good place.

But one of the things that we, as a team, wanted to do for the WordPress space was to give something back, and do so with the highest level of quality we could given a tight set of constraints.

Yesterday, we officially launched Required.

My Experience with OAuth.io

July 24, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

A couple of weeks ago, a new service – OAuth.io – was announced that claimed it was going to make it much easier to work with a variety of providers who offer OAuth for their authentication mechanism.

During the announcements, they were doing the usual and taking emails for beta invites. I went ahead and registered – 8BIT had a small project in the pipeline that would be perfect for this should the time sync up for it – and looked forward to trying it out.

To be fair, I rarely get my hopes up with online services. They frequently over promise, under deliver, and are then bought out or eventually sold.

But hey, it was free, it was new, it sounded good, so why not, right?

Now that I’ve actually put it to work in a real world project, I thought I’d share my thoughts on it.

Markdown Code For WordPress 0.4.0

July 24, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

In the last release for Markdown Code For WordPress, I added support for `strong` and `em` tags by using asterisks, but as with all software, there are always edge cases.

And there lies the beauty of keeping source code openly available for others to download, use, and improve.

So in the latest release, there have been some edge cases that have been fixed especially thanks to GeertDD.