This year, I made it a goal of mine to speak in front of new audiences, and meet new people. WordCamp Salt Lake City provided me with exactly that opportunity. I submitted my first WordCamp talk application, for my talk Taxes for Techies, to the event organizers a few months ago and they accepted it! While I […]
Take 15 Minutes to Get Started With Physical Fitness
This post has been inspired by listening to other people’s stories about their struggles with physical fitness. It’s a departure from the typical techy article I write, but I feel that it’s equally important to those of us who sit on our butts all day. Most of us desk jockeys find ourselves behind a computer […]
How to Report Bugs in WordPress for the Community
There are many different types of bugs that can come up in WordPress. While the developers who make WordPress generally do a great job at squashing bugs, they do pop up from time to time. If you happen to come across a bug, it’s important that you report it. The WordPress community benefits from this […]
Learning Code From My 7 Year Old Son
OK, I’ll admit, the title of this post is a bit confusing. How does a 7-year-old teach a guy in his 30’s how to code? Well, he didn’t really. I was teaching him, but it was through the process of teaching him that it taught me a few important lessons. Hopefully, these lessons can help […]
Giving Back to the WordPress Community
My experience with WordPress goes back to at least 2008, if not a little before that. When I first started using WordPress, it was purely for my own websites. I only used it to blog on various topics that interested me. I never created a theme or a plugin at that point in my life, […]
