Can you learn to have grit?
When I first went to college in 2000, I was irresponsible. Sure, there were certain things I was great at staying on top of, but livings aren’t made solely atop drinking beer and half-assed school work. I failed out of college twice. You know the friend that is always unreliable? Whenever you make plans, there’s a 50/50 chance […]
Dress up your Apple Watch Sport with this hack
The Apple Watch Sport is a beautiful piece of hardware, but after the first couple weeks I owned it, I realized I was hoping for a little more visual excitement in a daily driver. Sometimes a guy just wants to wear a snazzy watch, and the sport band wasn’t cutting it. The soft metal debacle […]
WordCamp Toronto 2015
Looking back on a year of WordPress travel (and launching a new feature)
This year I’ve traveled the world to learn from the WordPress community how to make GoDaddy’s products, service, marketing, and community involvement even better. I’ve learned from the brightest, forged incredible friendships with makers, innovators, thought leaders, and go-getters in the industry, and I’ve been humbled by the opportunity to tell the story of the […]
Auto sync your Mac Desktop folder with DropBox
UPDATE: There have been some issues reported with this method after updating to Catalina. Recommendation is now to use iCloud backup designed for Desktop and Documents folders. DropBox is a life saver. I can stash an extra copy of pictures, documents, and archival data in the cloud, and restore the files quickly if my laptop […]
How has web development changed since 2006?
In 2006, my independent web development business was firing on all cylinders. I was signing new clients and creating new websites every few weeks. I had standardized the request process, and made a big effort to standardize my offerings. Business was good, although the effort I was putting into creating websites was much greater than […]
WordCamp Zurich 2015
A temporary solution for creating a responsive WordPress gallery
Have you ever noticed that default WordPress galleries aren’t responsive? When you set the number of columns for your gallery on the gallery settings modal, the number of columns that you initially assign are static. Ideally, when the screen size changes, so would the number of columns– breaking away until the smallest screen has one column of […]
ThemeConf, the mystery unraveled
Lets start here… to those looking to seed an awesome new conference, start with playbooks from the likes of the ThemeConf, PrestigeConf, and YoastCon organizers. They’re doing truly good, meaningful work. What was [acf field=”event_name”] all about? I just got back from spending time in Keswick (pronounced Kesik) this week and learned a ton about the […]