Just another gladiator in the internet arena.
I was honored recently to do an interview on CodePoet. If you are interested in web development, WordPress, Open Source, or internet communities, please give it a read. I discuss a little bit of ancient history (in internet time scales), discussing how I started out, and touch a little on my more recent activities, such as speaking about security at WordCamp Atlanta last month.
Please check it out, and let me know what you think!
I’ve been so busy with my new job that I haven’t had a chance to mention before now that I will be speaking at WordCamp Birmingham this weekend. My topic is “CSI: WordPress — Getting Into the Guts“. I’ll try to give intermediate WordPress developers a peek into some of the major API hooks to be aware of, some more obscure but useful ones, how to make your own plugins extensible, etc.
WordCamp Birmingham takes place this weekend, January 14 & 15, 2012, and last I heard there are still a few tickets available. If you’ve been waffling over whether or not to go, just do it! WordCamps are very friendly and social, and the cost for this 2-day event is only $35, which is amazingly cheap compared to your typical technical conference (which can run from the $hundreds or even over $1,000). You’ll be able to meet with and pick the brains of some of the brightest minds in the WordPress community (and me, too). Will I see you there?
It’s time to do some cleaning up around here. Some time back, the portfolio function of the theme I was using stopped working (probably due to an updated version of jQuery in WordPress core, and the theme not following best practices). Since I had switched from consulting to a full-time job, I didn’t worry too much about it, but was still in the back of my mind, bugging me.
But now I’m going to try getting the site back in shape, just on general principle. I’ve purchased the Genesis Framework, and I’ve got Portfolio Slideshow Pro running on the front page. I don’t have the sites and individual project pages linked up yet, but at least there’s no longer a big, useless, empty space staring at you.
Everything is still pretty bare-bones at the moment. I need to fix up the portfolio as mentioned above, and I need to start building a child theme and customizing the styling. Then, hopefully, I can start posting some actual content again — at least occasionally.