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My Thoughts on Leading Development in a Startup

January 7, 2013 / Tom

As most of you know, I also spend a significant portion of my time working on Standard, Hello Dolly as well as some other internal projects with my team at 8BIT.

At this point, it’s been several years since we’ve been working together, and as with anything new, there are plenty of lessons learned – some things that work, some things that don’t, and some things that started as experiments and ended up being things that we’ve consistently implemented.

From the perspective of being the developer on the team, one of the biggest hurdles in moving from a typical 9-to-5 to a startup is the responsibility of leading development in a startup.

On today’s post on the 8BIT blog, I share a bit about it. Continue reading

WP Audio Player – Easily Embed Audio in Your WordPress Posts

January 7, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

As we’ve begun regularly publishing Hello Dolly and I’ve started running a few podcasts on Yet Another Blogging Podcast, I was finding the process a bit cumbersome for regularly embedding podcasts into our posts.

To be clear, I’ve been using the jQuery plugin by Codrops to embed audio, but it requires that I hop back and forth between the visual and the text editor when drafting posts.

In order to streamline the process a bit, I wrapped the jQuery plugin to make an easy to use WordPress audio player plugin.

Yet Another Blogging Podcast – Episode 1: Niche and Narrow

January 7, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

Last week, I mentioned that I was going to be doing a podcast about blogging. I don’t take myself too seriously, it seemed like fun, so why not?

Besides, I had a few questions for how I blog and since I genuinely value the questions, comments, and suggestions on this site, I want to try to provide as much information about what I share here.

So I’ve creatively titled this podcast Yet Another Blogging Podcast and the first episode is ready for download (or for listening) today.

The Official Hello Dolly Podcast Feed

January 4, 2013 / Tom

For any modern podcast, the first thing that many people want to do is to get their podcast into iTunes. My team and I are no different. The thing is, we don’t really have an officially Hello Dolly podcast feed.

At least we didn’t.

See, the problem, is that not everyone wants to use iTunes. In fact, Chip Bennett stated in one of his comments on the original podcast’s post: Continue reading

How Do You Vet Your Ideas?

January 4, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

One of the challenges of working in the development space is being able to separate your good ideas from your bad ideas.

By that, I mean that most of us who enjoy doing what we do probably have a ton of ideas and pet projects that we’d love to get started on, but there always seems to be several hurdles that crop up.

We’re either sidetracked by client work which is good because we need to pay the bills
By existing projects which generally require maintenance
Or by the time that we actually get to work on what we want to do, we’ve convinced ourselves that it isn’t worth doing or we’ve lost the motivation to do it. What is that?

Then again, maybe this is just me – but I doubt it.

My Thoughts on Leading Development in a Startup

WP Audio Player – Easily Embed Audio in Your WordPress Posts

Yet Another Blogging Podcast – Episode 1: Niche and Narrow

The Official Hello Dolly Podcast Feed

How Do You Vet Your Ideas?

Current Projects