Lead Happiness Engineer – NextGEN Gallery
Wow … what a day!
Day one as the Lead Happiness Engineer – NextGEN Gallery at Photocrati Media was quite an experience.
Today I was challenged.
Today I laughed out loud, digitally and working at my desk.
Today I was humbled.
Today I was exhilarated.
Today I was engaged, involved, drawn-in and blown away … all at once.
Today was one of the best days I have ever had …
… and probably the best thing about today, I get to do it all again tomorrow!
PS: If you were playing along from home and didn’t guess this was what I was referring to when I quit my job, now you know.
Last Day After 24 Years
Just had a call from the recently retired president wishing me well going forward on my last day at my current job … I'm impressed.
— Edward Caissie 🇨🇦 (@JellyBeen) August 16, 2013
– The previous owner, still welcome to come in every day and read his newspaper at 90 years young, wished me well (again) and invited me to come visit anytime I want; mind that one of the new owners said to “send an email” and they will “put me on the guest list” … hopefully there will be a few more Friday BBQ lunches still to attend this year.
– I wrote an email auto-responder for those that I did not have the opportunity to speak with personally
I’m going home for lunch …
… and so ended my last day after 24 years.
wp_get_shortlink() Should Always Return a URL
It was about two years ago that I noticed there was a minor issue with how wp_get_shortlink handled things with the default permalink structure. This is what I wrote in my original ticket:
Currently the code used in the link-template.php file causes the wp_get_shortcode function to return an empty result if the WordPress installation is using the default permalink structure. This causes at least issues with the_shortcode function and can be expected to cause issues any place that wp_get_shortcode is called when the default permalink structure is being used.
Obviously this was not a pressing issue but it was fixed on the 25030 Changeset. Props went out to sillybean, layotte, and cais (me!).
Five More Days
Last week I quit my job. Perhaps you read the post …
… and although my role was multifaceted it predominantly revolved around Custom Service related tasks as well as Purchasing, Inventory Management and related responsibilities. Last week, one of the team members was on holidays so I made sure to pick up the slack and began preparations for what I was hoping would be an easy transition period for the Customer Service team (and the new owners).
Today, I arrived early. I was prepared to start the transition process with the other Customer Service team members only to find out they both called in sick?!
Tomorrow will be four more days …
I Quit My Job Yesterday
I started 24 years ago … and I quit yesterday! I tendered an appropriate Letter of Resignation but I’ve always wanted to say:
I Quit! Cha-Cha-Cha!
(Although I did write my wife after using that as the subject line … we both laughed about it later.)
It reminds me of an old television ad for the lottery. I didn’t actually win lottery, I did something better.
I have taken a position with a great company that works with WordPress; no, it’s not Automattic even though someone tried guessing on Twitter.
@andrea_r No … not even any of their related companies. Which I always found odd, but I am very happy with where I am going.
— Edward Caissie 🇨🇦 (@JellyBeen) August 6, 2013
My new title will be: Lead Happiness Engineer – … er, well, if I gave my whole new title then what fun would it be for anyone else playing along.
Care to guess?
Welcome to WordPress 3.6
You have just updated your WordPress installation and are looking at the latest “About WordPress” page.
You are reading about:
- A “Colorful New Theme” (Twenty Thirteen)
- How you can “Write with Confidence” (Explore Revisions, Improved Autosaves, and Better Post Locking)
- New “Support for Audio and Video” (New Media Player, and Embed Music from Spotify, Rdio, and SoundCloud)
- and, you are seeing improvements “Under The Hood” (Audio/Video API, Semantic Markup, JavaScript Utilities, Shortcode Improvements, Revision Control, and External Libraries)
Now that you have read about all these great improvements, please take a moment to click on the “Credits” tab on the About page and have a look at all of the contributors to this latest version.
I’m quite proud, and humbled, to say I was one of the many contributors to core for this release; and, would like to thank everyone for their contribution(s)!
Insight
Anyone taking themselves seriously as a self-titled guru should look up humility first.
Empty Page Title Not Handled in Menu System
“Empty Page Title Not Handled in Menu System” seemed to cover what I found about five months ago (as of this writing according to the WordPress Trac system). Simply put, if you had a page without a title and you used that page in your WordPress navigation menu you could expect to have some issues with its display.
Several comments later; a commit by Mark Jaquith today; and, these issues are well taken care of now … cool! I’m happy to have been part of the process.
Life Code
Meeting life’s challenges can be as easy as 1, 2, 3 …
if ( ! empty( $life ) && isset( $lemons ) ) {
return $lemonade = $life . $lemons;
} /** End if - life gives you lemons */