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How To Level Up Your WordPress Development Skills

March 18, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

This past weekend, I attended WordCamp Atlanta 2013 and had an great time listening to some awesome speakers, finally meeting some Twitter friends face-to-face, and hanging out with a number of different people at the conference at the after party. All-in-all, it was a great weekend.

I gave my talk, Level Up Your WordPress Development Skills, on Saturday morning at 9am. Though the talk was filmed, I’m not sure when it will be online, so I’ve shared both my slides and the notes from my talk below.

Come Say “Hey” at WordCamp Atlanta 2013!

March 15, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

For the next two days, my team and I are going to be hanging out with a lot of awesome people at WordCamp Atlanta.

You can find out all of the information about the conference on the official website, but the short of it is that a ton of people are coming into town to chat about all things WordPress.

Open Source Ethics: Profiting From Contributions

March 14, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

When it comes to turning a profit on open-source software, I’d like to think that the majority of developers follow the same set of ethics. I’m my experience, it’s true – though, as with anything, there are outliers.

As I continue to work to introduce a premium level of support for my WordPress-related work, one of the things that I’ve found myself wrestling with is turning a profit on work to which others have contributed.

But are open source ethics that complicated?

Finding The Right WordPress Support System

March 13, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

The past couple of weeks, I’ve been discussing the challenge of supporting free WordPress plugins. Though I’ve done this in the past, I’ve retired those projects, but am looking to get back into doing so all the while documenting the process here.

But first, for those who haven’t been reading the articles up to this point, I wanted to reference the previous posts just to let you know where I stand with regard to all of this:

The point is that I’m slowly working my way back into building a small business around building WordPress plugins, supporting them, offering documentation, manuals, and so on, but I want to make sure that I’m doing it right.

To that end, I’m enjoying the discussion with you guys via the comments as well as the challenge of finding the best tools possible not only for me but for potential customers, as well and this is what raises my next issue: Finding the right WordPress support system. Continue reading

WordCamp Atlanta 2013: Level-Up Your WordPress Development Skills

March 8, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

As previously mentioned, WordCamp Atlanta 2013 will take place on March 15 – 16 at The Loudermilk Center. I’ll be speaking on Saturday, March 16th at 9:00am for the Developer Track.

Specifically, I’ll be speaking on how to Level-Up Your WordPress Development Skills.

Generally speaking, I’ll be looking to speak to both beginner and intermediate WordPress developers, but hopefully providing some useful information for advanced developers, as well.

That said, I thought it may be worth looking at a few of the topics I’m planning to cover during the course of the talk: