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How To Run a Viable Business By Curtis McHale

August 21, 2013 / Tom

Earlier this year, Curtis McHale released an eBook on how to Learn WordPress Development. Over the past few months, Curtis has been working on another book called Don’t Be an Idiot: Learn To Run a Viable Business which, as the title so subtly suggests :), helps provide readers with information on how to run a business successfully.

Here’s the unique thing about the book: It’s not just Curtis’ perspective.

In fact, he interviewed over 10 people for the book and is including their perspective on their businesses, how they run them, some of the challenges that they’ve had, as well as some of the things that they’ve done to continue their career of self-employment.

August 20, 2013 / Tom

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Yesterday, I was humbled to have been featured being featured on ManageWP’s most recent article.

Directly from the the post:

I recently published a post on WPExplorer rounding up the names of ten personalities in WordPress that you should be following. Of course, those were not the only ten people that you should know about – there are many, many more awesome people in our community and no list can ever be complete.

Here I showcase, in no particular order, 25 WordPress thought leaders that I think you should follow – people who offer things of value to the community, be it awesome plugins, original articles, contributions to the core, etc.

Software Milestones: Keeping Track of All The Things

August 20, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

One of the challenges that comes with managing any software project is making sure that milestones and deliverables are handled on time. The thing is, it’s hard – from the project outset – to always to predict some of the things that will crop up within each milestone.

If you’re using source control, this can make it difficult to keep your source control in sync with what milestone on which you’re working.

For example, I typically like to work on a milestone, then tag it, and release it. After that, I may do something like `milestone-1.1` or `milestone-1.2` as changes arise, but the more work that arises with each future milestone, and the various impacts it has on previous milestones, the more difficult it can be to truly track each milestone.

So what are we to do?

August 19, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

At the very end of july, I shared all of the details about my upcoming “Improve Your WordPress Development Skills” course. Feel free to read the details in their entirety; however, note that this is the week of course!

Beta Testing Self-Hosted WordPress Plugins

August 19, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

In three previous posts, I’ve mentioned that I’ve been slowly refocusing my own business to focus solely on working with WordPress. This particular focus includes:

Renaming the company
Doing a long, hard search for a support system that I like
Trying to find balance with the WordPress Plugins Repository
And even beginning to offer some online courses

In order to keep this momentum, albeit it very slow momentum, going, I’m looking to begin experimenting with self-hosting WordPress plugins. Specifically, I’m going to be using Auto Hosted.

And much like I did with support systems, I’m going to be evaluating it by actually, you know, using it.

But here’s the thing: I need your help.

How To Run a Viable Business By Curtis McHale

Software Milestones: Keeping Track of All The Things

Beta Testing Self-Hosted WordPress Plugins

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