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Dev Docs: API Docs For HTML5, CSS3, DOM, JavaScript, and jQuery

July 12, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

Years (or decades? – yikes!) it was relatively easy to get up to speed with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; however, the web is moving forward and it’s moving forward faster than ever.

The problem with this is that, as developers who stay heads-down busy on stuff, it can be tough to keep up to date with all of the new technologies that are available, what the new APIs are, or how to use them.

A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across Dev Docs – I spent a few minutes looking at it – but as time has passed, I’ve spent more and more time using it for reference so much so that it has a permanent spot in my bookmarks bar (and that’s sacred space for me). Continue reading

My Third Post on Medium: On Music and Millennials

July 11, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

When it comes to maintaining this site, one of the things that I try to do is stay “on topic.” Looking back through the posts, you see that there are actually very few things that I discuss that aren’t on the topic of development in some capacity.

For what it’s worth, I think having extreme focus on a blog is important. Spreading out too wide dilutes content and leaves you with a mixed-to-no audience.

And that’s why I hesitate sharing some of the stuff like this.

But you know, I’ve always enjoyed seeing what some of my fellow developers are writing and sharing outside of their typical stuff, so I always assume that a post like that now and again doesn’t hurt.

So as I’ve continued to explore Medium and what they’re doing with the service, I wrote a post earlier this week all about music and millennials.

Your WordPress Plugin Idea – What’s The Point?

July 11, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

When it comes to coming up with WordPress plugin ideas (or themes or general applications on any platform, for that matter), we all have different ways of going about doing it.

Some of us do it by scratching our own itch, some of us do it by modifying or adjusting an existing project to meet our needs, some of us dream up a random idea, and some of us do all of the above.

But coming up with an idea for a project is only half of it – you’ve also got to determine if your project serves a particular purpose, solves a particular problem, or has a particular use case.

I mean, very few things in this world are created “just because,” right?

Why I’ve Taken Referral Fees

July 10, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

Like those of you who are reading this, I’m a big fan of reading other people’s blogs for all of the traditional reasons:

Entertainment
Learning something new about a topic that I don’t know much about
Having my opinions or thoughts challenged about something
…and more

Of course, we all have our preferences for what and who we like to read, but I think that we also have our preferences for the types of topics that we like to read.

Case in point: One of the things that I enjoy reading the most is from people who offer opinions that challenge my own because it gives me food for thought to re-evaluate my own position on any given topic.

Sometime, I end up conceding a point; other times, I end up reaffirming my stance on a position. The thing is, I end up taking a significant amount of time to mull things over, so I rarely end up commenting on the post as soon as I read it.

Then, when I am ready to comment, it’s often too late and the time for the discussion has passed. Sure, sometimes I go back and leave a comment, sometimes I’ll chat with the person on Twitter, and sometimes, I’ll respond in a blog post.

Teasing Pressware

July 9, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

For sometime now, I’ve been talking about refocusing all of my efforts to be solely on WordPress-related projects, speaking events, writing, and so on.

Considering that I’ve covered which support solution I’ve ended going with, and that I just released my first premium plugin in a couple of years, I thought it might be time to actually put up a simple teaser landing page for my upcoming rebrand.

Tom McFarlin

Dev Docs: API Docs For HTML5, CSS3, DOM, JavaScript, and jQuery

My Third Post on Medium: On Music and Millennials

Your WordPress Plugin Idea – What’s The Point?

Why I’ve Taken Referral Fees

Teasing Pressware