Category: Resources (Page 36 of 60)

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

JavaScript Screencasts From Bocoup

December 14, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

Aside from working with WordPress, I’m also a big fan of JavaScript and have been trying to slowly include more content about the language.

Generally speaking, I think JavaScript is an important language to learn because it’s a core component of WordPress for both plugins and themes, and for public-facing code as well as the administration area of JavaScript.

Despite the fact that WordPress uses jQuery, I think that it’s always important to explore and understand the core language, too. Continue reading

Hello Dolly – It’s WordPress For Your Earholes

December 10, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

Back in October, I asked if you guys thought that there was room for yet another WordPress podcast. Between the comments, Tweets, and emails, I receive an overwhelmingly response all of which was positive.

After the response that I received, I brought the idea and responses to my team at 8BIT who were more than excited about the opportunity. So much so, in fact, that we’ve opted to bring this under the 8BIT banner rather than as a personal podcast of my own.

So, as of today, I’m proud to announce the first episode of the Hello Dolly podcast. Continue reading

Proud To Announce The Launch of WP Daily!

December 7, 2012 / Tom

On this site, I’ve discussed my work with 8BIT many times before. The short of is that we’re passionate about digital publishing.

We’re the team behind Standard
We created #notes specifically for helping digital publishers capture they’re ideas when they’re offline
We absolutely dig all things WordPress

We have some really exciting things coming in 2013 (including helping to produce a certain podcast), but today we’re launching one of our first initiatives for the new year and I couldn’t be more excited. Continue reading

Break a Rule – An Application Built on WordPress

December 7, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

If you’ve read any of my past posts, you know that I’m particularly interested in using WordPress as a foundation for writing web applications.

I’ve discussed this extensively in the following articles:

A few weeks ago, I asked for some of you to submit applications that you’ve seen built with WordPress. Today, I wanted to begin sharing some of what you guys submitted.

A WordPress Plugin Base

December 7, 2012 / Tom / 0 Comments

One of the things that I dig about the WordPress community – or, really, any open source community – is the diversity that exists with respect to its contributions.

For WordPress specifically, I always get a kick out of seeing the various plugins, themes, documentation, and other projects that people create that help others do their job better.

These include things like the Developer plugin and the Underscores theme. Projects like this and contributions from others are those that help keep me motivated to continue working on the Widget and the Plugin boilerplates.

The thing is, there are alternative projects that are out there that help do the same thing, and I’m way more a fan of the collaborative environment than the competitive environment (at least when it comes to educating others!).

Case in point: Mario Peshev’s WordPress Plugin Base.