Category: Notes (Page 41 of 49)

Notes on programming-related problems that I’ve encountered while working on various projects.

Building Comment Images For WordPress

August 14, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

When I shared some of my thoughts on building Single Post Message, I received some good feedback via Twitter and Email from others who enjoyed reading about the work that went into building the plugin.

Though my approach to this particular plugin is different than that of Single Post Message, I thought I’d do the same for this just to share a slightly different perspective.

So here’s how I went about building Comment Images for WordPress:

Building Single Post Message For WordPress

July 31, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

As a developer, one of the things that I love to do is read how others created their work. Sure, we’re all a different type of programmer but that doesn’t mean that I’m not interested in the work that others are doing.

In fact, I find that I often learn new things from seeing how other people face the technical challenges of their particular platform.

So, to that end, I thought I’d share the work that went into and that tools that I used to create Single Post Message.

PEAR Command Not Found

July 9, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

Over the weekend, I updated my MAMP PRO installation to 2.1.0. After doing so, I needed to reinstall PHPUnit via Pear but I hit a snag: I kept receive the “pear command not found” console message.

Luckily, it’s a relatively easy fix but it does come with a caveat:

Assign Users To Groups Using Hominid

May 1, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

When it comes to integrating MailChimp into Rails applications, Hominid is my gem of choice. It’s implementation is relatively straightforward and it stays true to the MailChimp API.

I rarely have issues with it, but I recently needed to funnel users into specific groups which were part of a list and hit a bit of snag with the merge vars parameter of the listSubscribe function. Continue reading

Meeting Matt Mullenweg

February 7, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

For the past couple of years, I’ve done quite a bit of development on the WordPress Platform. Specifically, I…

Work with a stellar team who builds a number of products for the platform
Blog regularly for Envato
Maintain a premium plugin (with more on the way)
Authored the Widget Boilerplate and the Plugin Boilerplate

This past weekend, my team and I had a chance to hang out at WordCamp Atlanta. Overall, we had a great time – the meetup was especially fun as it was great to chat with a number of different bloggers, developers, designers, and teams that are all active in the WordPress Community. Continue reading