Philly. Like so many big cities, I like you a little bit more every time I visit. You welcomed me with clear skies just after a rain and gave me a new favorite noodle bar for ramen. Plus you hosted WordCamp US that I happily photographed alongside four other brilliant volunteer photographers Kari Leigh Marucchi, […]
An original, unconventional, made-with-love, photo-friendly theme is just what I needed! So I embarked on an adventure to build it. Before I considered how to achieve theme-maker fame and glory :) my main goal was to make a theme that I truly love. Along the way, I stretched the limits of current browsers by experimenting […]
Something prompted me to look up how the WordPress dashboard has evolved over time, so I thought I’d post up a few screenshots. It’s neat to see the UI quantum jumps in 2.5 and 2.7—both happened in 2008, around the time WordPress became a force in my life. That’s serendipity.
WordCamp San Francisco is a classy affair—from live Jazz at lunch to world-class presentations, it never disappoints. You can even attend via live stream, which is not a bad way to see the talks if you can’t travel for whatever reason. Following are the credits, links and videos from my presentation, “Little Known Facts About […]
In my last post, I wrote about my adventure setting up a local WordPress OS X nginx MySQL PHP web server on a Mac. You can use launchd to automatically start MySQL, PHP-FPM, and nginx on OS X. Create and install plist files in ~/Library/LaunchAgents to run programs at startup on a per-user basis or […]
This is an overview of my local nginx server setup. If you just want to get up and running quickly, using the built in web server on OS X Lion or even MacPorts or HomeBrew is probably a better idea for you. I’ve installed from source so that I can mess around with all the […]
Here are just a few shots of the amazing people that make WordPress work—taken the week after WordCamp San Francisco 2010. Hat tip to Matt for inspiring me to pick up a dSLR again and for lending me a totally completely awesome D3S.