Yesterday at WordCamp Ann Arbor 2019, I hosted three rounds of WordPress Jeopardy as a fun way to conclude our event. To make it possible I created a beginner, an intermediate, and an advanced Jeopardy game using a free tool I found called Jeopardylabs. I worked pretty hard on the questions and so in the […]
Last month the entire Sandhills Development team gathered together in Keystone, Colorado for our annual team meetup. This was not the first team meetup for the company but was different than anything in the past for a few reasons: The meetup was for five whole days. It was not tacked onto a conference. All employees […]
More than five years ago I started a marketing company. Today I’m officially leaving it. It took two years to figure out that running a marketing agency wasn’t really my true calling in life and then three years after that to fully come to terms with this truth and act on it. Starting today, I […]
Almost four weeks ago now on October 15th at roughly 11:30pm I found myself laying down in bed, completely exhausted. The reality sunk in slowly that WordCamp Ann Arbor 2016 was over and officially in the past. I experienced a whirlwind of emotions from joy to relief to apprehension to anxiety before quickly falling into a very….very […]
There are many things in life I consider indisputable facts. Any food can be made better by wrapping it in a tortilla. Adam Sandler makes exactly 18.73 times more money than his contributions to human history warrant. Evil Artificial Intelligence exists today in the form of printers. Ohio sucks. Talent is not required to succeed in the entertainment […]
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. […]
