For those of you not familiar with the Pink Sombrero, you should read the Cowboy Coding and Pink Sombrero and watch Mark Jaquith’s talk about Scaling, Servers and Deploys. And no, I wasn’t actually cowboy coding in Playa del Carmen and Tulum, but honestly, I sometimes am.
Team Meetup in Playa del Carmen
You might be wondering why there haven’t been much posts here lately, well that’s the bad news. The good news is that I’m at a team meetup in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. It took me 20 hours to get here, from Moscow to London to Miami to Cancun, but it was totally worth the effort! The weather is super awesome, especially compared to Moscow at this time of the year, and the best...
How to Become a Better Brogrammer
This video made my day, was laughing like crazy! Hat tip to Philip for sharing. Some dudes are just not born to be brogrammers :)
102 People Power 16% of the Web
Not entirely true, and not entirely up to date, but still worth linking to: 102 People Power 16% of the Web by Andre Bourque for Social Media Today.
WordPress Weekly Recap, March 23
It’s Friday and it’s time for a WordPress Weekly recap! WordPress.com rolled out four new themes this week, one of which is San Kloud, which is exciting news for Theme.fm, who by the way, launched their new theme store earlier this week as well. Emil Uzelac launched a free theme called Responsive. You don’t see much CMS-type themes in the repository, so this is exciting, and...
San Kloud Theme by Theme.fm, now on WordPress.com
Today WordPress.com has launched a couple of new themes, and one of them is San Kloud. I remember introducing the San Kloud theme for WordPress on Theme.fm, back in August last year, and it’s made almost nine thousand downloads since then. Designed by Umit Kayabas and developed by Alexander Permyakov, San Kloud is a great theme for blogging. Congratulations to the Theme.fm team for making...
Introducing Milestones on WordPress.com
Good news! WordPress.com rolls out a few terrific badges for achievements, which will keep you motivated, and not only to post more often, but to post quality content, because the new badges are for likes and for followers. Here’s a screenshot of how it looks: With all those new features introduced on WordPress.com — likes, reblogs, achievements and badges, I’m really loving the...
Toggle Elements States in Chrome’s Developer Tools
Yeah, I have only discovered this trick today. It was a nightmare debugging :hover (and other) states, and all the magic was hidden behind that tiny little button. Glad I finally found it, and hope you did as well! Did you?
Did the Toolbar (Admin Bar) Render edit_post_link Useless?
I asked this on Twitter yesterday which raised quite some interesting replies from theme developers, the .org themes review crew and other folks. For those of you who don’t know, the edit_post_link function is widely used in WordPress themes, to create an “Edit this post” link as a shortcut to the post edit screen. This was convenient I agree, except that the link was always in...
Wilhelm Joys Andersen: Responsive Web Design
From WordCamp Norway 2012, earlier this year, an awesome presentation by Wilhelm, who takes us through the world of responsive wed design. It isn’t something new, I agree, and as he mentions media queries have been around for over 10 years. However, it’s very nice to catch up on things, since a lot of WordPress theme developers are still overlooking all of this. One important aspect...