Software like Adium and Pidgeon are so darn handy. They let you hook up your Google Chat, Yahoo! IM, AIM, MSN and other instant messengers along with access to tons of IRC channels, too. Man, what a great invention. Instant access to everybody I’ve ever exchanged email with (thanks gchat) all at the click of…
A few months back I was absolutely humbled when I received an invite to a fairly exclusive event; The WordPress Community Summit. This was to be the first of its kind, invite only meetup/conference with about 100 people from the WordPress community in attendance. People from all over the globe were planning to attend. We…
I’m working with a client (who shall remain nameless) to help get their WordPress site up to date. They are currently running version 2.8.4, which is about 3 years out of date. I wasn’t sure how the theme or the plugins were going to handle the upgrades, so I obviously didn’t want to do the…
Better late than never, that’s what they always say, right? I’ve had a project on my plate for a while that started out as one thing and then morphed in to something totally different. The problem is, I didn’t notice the fact that it was morphing until I had already done a shit ton of…
Last September I attended WordCamp Portland which was set up as an unconference. If you are unfamiliar with the term, an unconference doesn’t have a pre-scheduled list of speakers. At the beginning of the day there was a large whiteboard with squares drawn to create a grid of rooms and time slots. Anybody who had…
Last year somebody reached out to me and mentioned that they had a client they couldn’t take on so they wanted to pass them my way. I got some basic details about the project and it seemed like we’d be a good fit for what the client needed, so I said send ’em over. The…
For the past 2 years I’ve been using Quickbooks to handle the bookkeeping for my business. But, I freakin’ love FreshBooks and I want to use it for invoicing. The problem that I have is that I can’t import FreshBooks invoices/payments into Quickbooks so it means I have to do double entry in order to…
One of my favorite WordCamp events each year is always the one up in Portland. No, not just because they had kegs of beer just inside the front door. Although that certainly didn’t suck. Their local WordPress community is awesome and invited in us outsiders with open arms. By the end of the first weekend…
When we started the company, there were three of us. The other two guys did the bulk of the design/development and I did some development, but mostly I ran the business. I spoke with all prospects, I managed all projects, dealt with accounting… all of it. Then earlier this year, one of those guys left…
While working on a project recently, the client wanted to display a custom header graphic for a specific ection of their site. This was complicated by the fact that there were a few places where the header needed to be changed; a static page that’s used as a landing page for the content, the category…
From time to time, things change in the world of WordPress, websites, SEO, and basically all things internet. Most things, you probably don’t care about or even need to know about. But, from time to time, it matters. It matters to you, to your website, or to your business. When those things happen, I’ll let you know.
