Ryan Imel on WPCandy is upset about people who are advising WordPress users against running a lot of plugins. He goes on a little rant, which you should read, because it definitely has a point.
What does matter is the nature of the plugins themselves. If the plugins are properly coded and serve their individual purposes well, then it shouldn’t matter even if you have one hundred of them active. If the plugins are big, bloated, and poorly written then you could run into a problem with only two active. The key here is the number of active plugins is unimportant; only the quality matters.
This is true, although I think you have a problem if you’re running 100 plugins, but that’s another matter.
The thing to take away here is that you can run how many plugins you want, just make sure they are well-written, then you won’t have any problems.
With that said, I still say you should keep your plugin count down. Continued →
I never was one to thread around lightly, so when James Farmer and his cohorts had a brief lapse of judgment and gave me the keys to WPMU.org, I knew I had to come out swinging. So I’ll start with calling the WPMU.org reader as well as most of the WordPress community an asshole then, shall I? Indeed I shall, and I did. Continued →
WordPress 3.3 introduces admin pointers, which basically are highlights to show how various things work. This will be great for the core features obviously, but where it can really make things easier is in plugins and themes doing fancy stuff no one’s seen before.
The nice folks on Theme.fm have a post on admin pointers, which you should read if you’re interested in how you’ll be doing them, although you need to remember that 3.3 is still under development. They also put together this awesome video detailing how it could work.
Want to stalk me on Google+ now that it is open for everyone? Here I am!
I love Kickstarter, the crowd sourcing site where you can help others realize their dreams. It would seem that authors use it quite a bit, as Tobias Buckell pointed out to me. Buckell’s got a book looking for funding up there himself, and you should check it out.
I’m considering trying Kickstarter myself. I’ve managed to crowd source an ebook (on WordPress) in Sweden without using an external service, but I definitely see the benefits from using something like Kickstarter.
Is this the future of writing, when all the publishing houses die and we all self-publish? I don’t think that will happen, but there is something in this method of getting the funds to publish, something old. Remember the time when courts appointed musicians, and rich people paid authors to write just because they wanted to make sure the author kept reading? Yeah me neither, but in a way we’re there again. Only difference is, this time around we can all chip in.
The good folks over at Smashing Magazine has been covering WordPress all along, but with a brand new WordPress sub-site things should just increase.
In response to David on 52 Tiger, yes I do plan tomorrow’s work the evening before, and have done that for some time. It’s a great way to let everything work-related go until the day after.
While I can struggle to get started writing stuff, no matter if it is a book, an article, or code, I am extremely focused when I actually write. I love fullscreen when it makes sense, otherwise I just keep one app open (on the space I’m in) to keep me focused. Distractions are a thing of evil, so no Twitter apps open, no alerts, no inbox folders on the desktop that might draw my attention.
I don’t stop there. Continued →
Now you can run WordPress, and other PHP based systems, on Heroku. Here’s how.
A lot of people, some commenting here, have a problem with Moleskine notebooks and their lack of a pencil holder. Etsy to the rescue, this baby costs $17.95 and is just plain awesome. If I had said problem I’d order one right away.
Wreen in fullscreen
Lion’s fullscreen feature is truly a blessing. While the minimalistic Twitter app Wren might look great in fullscreen, it isn’t the type of software that truly benefits from this feature. The killer mix is the 11″ MacBook Air, combined with the Safari web browser for example. All nonsense disappears, your app is everything.
Wren above shows that it looks awesome even if you have almost no functionality, and while I do think fullscreen makes more sense on smaller screens, I do occasionally use it on the 27″ screens at work as well. It just is so focused, and sometimes we need that little extra help to stick to what we’re doing.
Spotify wants me to further share invites, this time with my Facebook friends. Only open for select users I’m told, if you’re one of them you’ll see a promotional link in the desktop app.
If you’re running WordPress you should do yourself a favor and install the After the Deadline spelling plugin. It will improve your language, that’s for sure. Get it stand-alone, or as a part of the Jetpack bundle.
I’ve had the iPad since the US wifi launch. I bought the 3G version when it came out, and I upgraded to the iPad 2 with 3G at launch. When Apple releases iPad 3 I’ll get that too. In the short lifespan of the iPad it has gone from web browser to reading device to an actual tool.
Or to put it more plainly, the iPad is by far the most used device, for both work and pleasure.
So what do I really use it for, and how well is it working out compared to the almost always more fully fledged Mac alternatives? Continued →
By now you have no doubt noticed that this very site looks different. As I have hinted on Twitter on numerous occasions, I’ve planned a redesign for quite some time. This is it, and it marks the start of a more organized site when it comes to updates and content.
Since you’ve asked, this is the what’s and the why’s of this particular redesign, in FAQ form. Continued →
