In just a few weeks, Joel, Steve and myself will be departing for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for a week to attend the inaugural WordCamp US. This is an exciting trip for a number of reasons: I’ve never been to Philly This is the first ever WordCamp US This is likely to be the single largest gathering […]
A few weeks back, my good friend Adam Silver invited me to be a guest on his popular WordPress podcast Kitchen Sink WP. Adam’s podcast has been one of my favorites for a long time. It is a short but information packed show, recorded weekly and always entertaining. I was a listener long before I met […]
For years now I’ve been making a living exclusively by providing marketing and web development related services to clients, most of which involved WordPress in some way. Today is an exciting day for me because we are giving the world a glimpse for the first time at an actual product we’ve been working on for […]
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the concept of open source. Mostly just scattered musings relating to the things we, as makers of things, choose to open source, the things that we expect to be open source and the things we don’t. In the WordPress community, and many others as well, software is typically […]
A couple weeks ago my business partner and I returned from an exciting five day adventure to San Francisco, California for the annual WordCamp SF. It is traditionally the largest WordCamp in the world with attendees from all corners of the globe, including many of the most important and influential members of the WordPress community. […]
A couple months back, some WP pals and I were sitting around at a WordCamp after party and chatting about supporting plugins and other related topics. My friend Justin has a premium plugin that he sells and was remarking on the fact that a number of his customers were consistently making feature requests…for features they already had. […]
Lately we’ve been tackling some serious home improvement projects. I’m really proud of what we’ve accomplished and believe we’re going in an awesome direction. This house that we purchased more than five years ago has turned out to be a perfect home for us and has really come a long way. This past weekend I […]
Five years ago today I married the girl of my dreams. She’s been the best friend, companion and spouse any person could ever ask for and I’m so grateful that God brought us together. In fact, today, I’m grateful for a lot of things… I’m grateful that together we have made the choice to build […]
Just got back yesterday from an awesome trip down to North Canton, Ohio for WordCamp. Steve, Rogan and I all camped for the weekend down there and had a great time. I got to experience speaking at a WordCamp for the first time and it was amazing. I got lots if nice compliments for both […]
Happy Easter! It has been a long winter and a long Lent. This year for my Lenten penance I chose to set aside all beverages besides water. It is the same penance I chose last year and maybe the year before. The fact that I have recent been unable to select a more creative annual […]
Got the news a couple weeks ago that I’ll be among the speakers at the upcoming WordCamp in North Canton, Ohio. This will be my first opportunity to speak at a WordCamp and I’m pretty excited about it. The two sessions I’ll be presenting will be: Theme Customization Best Practices Enhancing the Admin UX for […]
