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Measuring WordPress Performance
The 2013 Minnesota WordCamp was fantastic! Eventually, I’d like to replace this post with substantive content. But for the time being, here’s a link to the slide deck.
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How bbPress search should work?
There was an interesting discussion during the last bbPress dev meeting about the different approaches for implementing a solid search feature for the forums, and how it should play along with the general WordPress search. Here’s the main ticket. I’d like to keep the dialog going and will summarize the core ideas.I’m writing this without reviewing the whole chat and didn’t take notes, so… sorry in advance if I’m missing someone’s opinion or idea. Please … Continue reading
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A Ramble on Responsive Design
Responsive Design is the latest mantra to gain traction in the web community. Ethan Marcotte threw down the gauntlet and challenged the web design community to seriously reconsider how we think about design and code. Responsive Design is an approach that encourages us to build websites that respond to a user’s behavior and environment – i.e. a single code base that adapts to multiple devices. With a peck of flexible grids, a dash of media … Continue reading
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WordCamp LA: WordPress at Scale
Peter’s talk at WordCamp LA 2011 is up on WordPress.tv. The talk went through some of the basic strategies for scaling a WordPress project using the example of the Town Square project (170+ radio stations). Also, check out Brandon’s awesome talk: The Anarchist and the Patriot
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Balsamiq help us love you more
We do an enormous amount of wireframing using Balsamiq. It is a fantastic product and resolved some very basic issues we faced during the UI phase. Namely, since using Balsamiq, we no longer have to constantly dodge the design discussion during wireframing. Perhaps it is the artful mix of comic sans and crooked lines. The app is in a constant state of improvement and as active users, we have requests. If you happen to use … Continue reading
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My First Tech Presentation
I just gave my first-ever tech presentation at the 2nd edition of the Winnipeg WordPress meetup this past Friday. I decided to cover a bunch of WordPress coding conventions and gave a quick 15 minute talk on a few things that I wish I had known earlier in my WP work. It was a fun experience! I wrote more on my blog. Slides embedded below: Doing Things the WordPress Way
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My First Windows Phone 7 App
My first Windows Phone 7 app, Harvest Time Tracking, is in the app store right now! It got marketplace certified earlier today and now is available for purchase. For those of you without a PC and the Zune software installed, I took a screenshot: It took me a while to get a product out, but now I did. I’m not counting on a bazillion sales here, but as soon as I sell one copy I’ll … Continue reading
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WordPress 3.0 New Post Editor
3rd in a series of WordPress admin patterns. The pattern is for the Add New Post screen (post editor) in WordPress 3.0. Please not that while it is most likely feature complete, they are still fussing with it just a little bit, so I may have to fine tune it for the public release. Hopefully for all you devs out there about to crack open custom post types, this should give you a great foundation … Continue reading
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WordPress 3.0 Admin Comment List
2nd in a series of wordpress admin Balsamiq patterns. This pattern is for the WordPress 3.0 Beta admin comment list. Download the Pattern: Comments List.bmml For updates, release information and tips about Shane’ & Peters open source wordpress plugins or redmine core ux/ui, ipad or the freelance lifestyle, follow Shane on twitter @justlikeair and visit http://tri.be.
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WordPress Admin Balsamiq Patterns
DOWNLOAD WORDPRESS POST LIST BALSAMIQ PATTERN I have been having a great time working with balsamiq to quickly push out wireframes for projects. We have a few large wordpress plugins in the works for customers which will really take advantage of 3.0 custom post types. Up till now a lot of UI work when designing plugins was a bit of the wild west. With Jane heading up the UI/UX team and Tracy working on a … Continue reading
