Tag: Blogging (Page 4 of 8)

So When Do We Update Out-of-Date Blog Posts?

May 29, 2017 / Tom / 0 Comments

Late last week, a good friend of mine linked me to a post I wrote earlier this year.

Do we update out of date blog posts?

If you opt not to read the post, the short of it is this:

tt’s about a plugin bootstrap file,
and there’s a discussion in the comments about it.

Here’s the thing: The more work you do with a given set of tools, the more you’re going to learn and the greater your skills are going to get.

So the posts that you’ve written become a bit out of date. Are we then recommending bad advice? Ultimately, this raises the question of what do we do with blog posts that may be out of date?

Sponsored Posts: They Should Be About the Reader

April 7, 2017 / Tom

For as long as I’ve written on this blog, I’ve always approached it with the perspective that this is my content all based on my experience. And given that the blog tied to my name in the domain, it seemed to make sense.

Introducing Sponsored Posts: Never thought I'd be doing something like this back in 2010.

This site, as it were, back in 2010, courtesy the WayBack Machine.

However, the longer I’ve worked within the WordPress economy, the more people I’ve met who are doing some really incredible things with it. Some people are building some really cool plugins and themes for it while others are building tools specifically for those building said plugins and themes.

And as I’ve mentioned numerous times throughout the year, there are some changes coming to this blog – all for the better, of course (at least that’s the goal) – and the first change I’m looking to introduce is to begin offering sponsored posts.

How To Start Blogging Regularly (Or Maybe Not)

March 13, 2017 / Tom / 0 Comments

I don’t write much about blogging on this site because it’s a bit meta and because I try to focus on WordPress development and related topics.

Blogging Regularly: Talking about it is a little meta.

Talking about blogging is a bit meta, isn’t it?

But one of the questions that I receive from fellow developers who are interested in blogging has asked this question enough times that I thought it might be worth providing a short answer here if for no other reason than I have a place to which I can link them when others ask me.

Blog Overhaul: One of My Tasks for 2017

February 24, 2017 / Tom / 0 Comments

Earlier this year, I shared a few of the goals I had for 2017. Some of those include the changes I want to make is to do a whole blog overhaul (versus the other one).

But I’ve yet to talk about some of the changes I want to make, so I thought rather than just drop a bunch of changes at once, I’d talk a bit about some of the changes I’m looking to make and the rationale behind each of them.

Sharing Our Programming Problems (Is It Lipstick on a Pig?)

January 26, 2017 / Tom / 0 Comments

I was recently reading another programmer’s blog post on Coding skills you won’t learn in school in which he was specifically talking about Object Ownership. The topic of the blog post is good in and of itself, and if you’re into lower-level programming, such as C, and data structures, like trees, then it’s worth a read.

Programming Problems: Object Ownership

But just as I was closing the tab, I came across the following paragraph at the bottom of his post:

Broken software, bad job offers: I”m sharing my mistakes so you can avoid them.

In short, it’s an invitation to join his mailing list (which is fine), but what really caught my eye was his call to action:

I’m sharing my mistakes.

For anyone who writes on the web – myself included – I think a lot of us do share our mistakes, but I couldn’t help but think about the way we go about doing it.

And it now has me re-thinking the approach to some of the posts that I’ve written and that I’ve yet to write.