I’m Speaking at WordCamp Columbus, June 18th at 11:30am
I’m excited to say that I’ve been accepted as a speaker at WordCamp Columbus this coming Saturday. I was a last minute addition… so thanks to the WCC folks for working that out. (Shout out to Angie...
View ArticleWordCamp Columbus Slides: Licensing and Business Models for Premium Plugins
Here are the slides from my talk: Licensing and Business Models for Premium Plugins (ppt). And FYI, slides from my similar talk at WordCamp Philly (pretty similar, but more stuff on GPL in the...
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Don’t Call Your Customer a Dick
Yesterday Adriaan Pienaar, a.k.a. “Adii Rockstar” of Woo Themes posted on his blog about a tough client asking, Am I being irrational? He later followed up on Twitter, calling this customer a “dick...
View ArticleCharityGoal.com Launches, Support our Cause
I’m happy to announce the launch of CharityGoal. This is a site we built for a client whose goal is to enable anyone to raise money for any (legal) cause. CharityGoal gives you an easy way to accept...
View ArticleDon’t Break The Code
Last Saturday at WordCamp Philly, I ran a session on “Building a Plugin in One Night”. Together, with about 50+ attendees, we brainstormed ideas for a new WordPress plugin that I could code that night....
View ArticleSeeking Programming, Design, and Marketing Interns for 2012
A true internship benefits the intern more than the employer. We’re looking for motivated people to take part in development, design, and marketing activities at Stranger Studios. Interns will be...
View ArticleMaking QR Codes with Google URL Shortener and Google Charts
One way to make a QR codes to use the Google URL shortener. Goto http://goo.gl/ Enter a URL Click shorten Click “details” Note/save the QR code If you dig deeper, you find that you can click on the QR...
View ArticleWordCamp Philly 2012 Scholarship
I’ll be speaking at WordCamp Philly coming up October 20th and 21st this year. Would you like to join me? Do you want to mingle with the smartest folks working on WordPress in the Philly area and...
View ArticleMistake #1: Lack of Goals
One of the biggest mistakes made by website owners is to have a website that is totally detached from any business activity. Maybe your website is beautiful. Maybe it has tons of information about your...
View ArticleMistake #2: Playing Designer
Unless your business is website design or something else in the arts, you don’t need a beautiful website. A nice looking website is a bonus, but make sure you’re working towards a functioning website...
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WordPress as an Application Framework
I wrote a comment over on Justin Tallant’s blog post titled WordPress is not an application framework. My comment got pretty long, so I figured I would also post it here. You should read Justin’s post...
View ArticleMistake #3: Starting with Design
I’ll focus on WordPress sites and themes here, but this advice applies to any website built using an existing theme as a framework or just for inspiration. I’m a big fan of using existing premium...
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Our Book: Building Web Apps with WordPress
Brian Messenlehner (@bmess) of WebDevStudios and I (@jason_coleman – you follow me right?) are finishing up a book for O’Reilly called Building Web Apps with WordPress. The book is for intermediate to...
View ArticleWhy We Changed The Domain of Our Book’s Site to BWAwWP.com
(Originally posted to my Google+ account.) Just a quick post here RE why we decided (without hearing explicitly from the WordPress foundation) to change the domain of our book’s site...
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Continuing the WPWatercooler Discussion on Rapid WP Core Development
In his 2013 State of the Word Speech, Matt Mullenweg shared his plans to release two major versions of WordPress later this year in addition to 3.6 coming out this week and to generally increase the...
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Thoughts on GPL WordPress Plugins and Themes
This was originally posted as a comment on a Reddit thread of all things, but kind of too good to stay there. WordPress is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The basic gist of that license is that...
View ArticleHeartbeat API for WordPress
As part of the JavaScript chapter for our upcoming book Building Web Apps with WordPress, I got a chance to research and work with the Heartbeat API that is new to WordPress 3.6. It’s a cool little...
View ArticleJason was on WPwatercooler again. Summary.
The WPwatercooler is a great show, and I was on it again this past Monday with my BWAwWP co-author Brian Messenlehner. I may make it a habit to get on that show. And I may make it a habit to follow up...
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