Category: Resources (Page 25 of 60)

A summary of useful links, applications, and tools that I find around the Internet.

Using LighthouseApp For WordPress Issues

April 8, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

One of the things that I love about GitHub is how they’ve done a great job integrating source code, milestones, tickets, pull requests, and so on.

But if you’re working with WordPress, not all projects all on which you work will use GitHub.

Case in point: If you’re selling a theme on WordPress.com or if you’re working on a plugin that is hosted in the WordPress Plugin Repository, then you’re going to be using Subversion as your source control system. But this doesn’t mean that you have to sacrifice the work flow of milestones, tickets, and so on.

It just requires that you use a third-party solution. For example, for the past couple of months, I’ve been using LighthouseApp as my issue tracker of choice for Mayer.
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Managing Email with Flywheel and Pobox Email Forwarding

April 4, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

Late last year, I migrated this site to Flywheel for managed WordPress hosting (which I talked a little bit about in this post). I’ve been incredibly happy with them for a number of reasons, each of which I cover at a later time; however, one of the features that they do not offer is email hosting.

Straight from their support channel:

At Flywheel we believe strongly in working with “best of breed” providers for everything we do, and we view ourselves to be a “best of breed WordPress host.” As such, we do not currently host email for our clients. We make a deliberate effort to focus on building a great WordPress hosting environment – and being the absolute best at it.

I love the mentality and the vision they’re after, but this does leave us needing to look for an alternative host.

They mention Google Apps, Zoho Mail, and Rackspace Email as alternatives, but the last thing that I wanted to do was setup yet-another-email-address.

I have a handful of email addresses all of which forward to a single Gmail box that allow me to respond from the address to which the email was sent, and I wanted to duplicate that for this particular domain.

So I tried one of the recommended solutions for a couple of months, and I couldn’t get it to jive with my workflow (for a number of different reasons, none of which I’m covering here).

This ultimately lead me to try out Pobox.

My Preferred Web Page Screenshot Tool, Take 2: Awesome Screenshot

January 17, 2014 / Tom

I no longer use this extension. You can read a technical explanation as to why on this page.

As you guys know, I like to keep a list of tools that I use on a day-to-day base to help get work done. And early last year, I shared that I was a fan of Screen Capture by Google.

Unfortunately, as Chrome has updated, the plugin has not and I began to experience more and more issues with it crashing, not saving screenshots, and generally not working. When this happens, I do what everyone else opts to do: look for a new solution.

For the past several weeks, I’ve been using Awesome Screenshot and I’m a big fan of it.

Update Your WordPress Projects on GitHub with the GitHub Updater

December 20, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

It’s no secret that many open source developers love GitHub – it’s an amazing service that makes sharing and working on open source projects really easy, both from a project management standpoint, and from a developer/contributor standpoint.

But if you’re in the business of building WordPress plugins, and you enjoy taking advantage of the services offered by the GitHub plugin repository, then one of the things that makes it difficult to keep your work on GitHub is the lack of ability to update your plugin.

Of course, projects have been released that allow you to sync both repositories, but if you’re interested in going 100% with GitHub, then check out the GitHub Updater Plugin.

Giveaway: Get a Free Domain with Namecheap!

December 10, 2013 / Tom

This contest is now closed. Please see the update at the bottom of the post for the winners!

For those of you who have read this blog for sometime, you know that one of those things that I enjoy doing is partnering with other companies and organizations to offer a variety of giveaways be it for software, applications, service, products, and so on.

This time around, I’ve got a sweet deal from the guys over at Namecheap:

The grand prize winner can pick three domain names (for .com, .net., and/or .org),
While two runners up will be awarded one domain each

As with all of the rest of the giveaways, the details for how to enter are below: