What the World Needs is a Markdown IDE for Programmer Documentation
As an active JetBrains' PhpStorm user one of my feature requests was for First Class WYSIWYG Markdown/Markdown Extra Support. Unfortunately they told me (and others) to use a 3rd party plugin which...
View ArticleProposal - Securing the WordPress JSON API
I was recently added to the WordPress API team and this post contains my thoughts about the recent authentication discussion. WordPress have a reasonably robust authentication system built in, the...
View ArticlePresentation Notes on Sunrise for Metamorphosis Notes (WordPress Post Meta Team)
Post Meta Meeting Tuesday December 3rd & 10th 2013 What Sunrise v1 Where Git on BitBucket https://bitbucket.org/newclarity/sunrise-1 ...
View ArticleWho Do You Recommend to Design a WordPress Website?
Here's an email I got a few days ago from someone I met at a Meetup about 6 months ago: Hi Mike, I have a friend looking for setting up a non-profit website and they want to use WordPress. I was...
View ArticleThe Web Needs You To… STOP BLOGGING!
Well, that was an incendiary title. On purpose. Now that I have your attention, let me say that I don’t literally mean “stop blogging”, I mean to object to the meme that seems to have overtaken the...
View ArticleThanks for Offering to Guest Blog or Advertise, But…
Once again I’m blogging on a topic I’ve previously spent much time covering in email replies. So rather than compose that email reply yet again I'm blogging it for today and for future reference. TL;DR...
View ArticleWhy REST is More Like Religion than Most Technologies
As someone whose entire career has been involved with technology platforms, and specifically programming platforms in some form or another, it’s clear to me something which is obvious to most patient...
View ArticleA Crash Course in Software Quality
It occurred to me recently that while intuitively obvious to many the concept of “Software Quality” is probably something never actually studied by the average developer who doesn’t have a formal...
View ArticleThe Character of People
Many years ago I learned of this pearl of wisdom shown below. I don’t know when or where I learned of it or who might have been known to say it, I don’t remember if I read it or was told of it by...
View ArticleThe Decline of Drupal, or How to Fix Drupal 8
Prologue Almost 4 years ago I wrote a controversial post entitled "17 Reasons WordPress is a Better CMS than Drupal" that caused me to be persona non grata among some of my prior Drupal friends. But...
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