Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.
Steve Jobs – BusinessWeek, May 25, 1998
Try Not To Work For Friends
Try not to work for friends … the customer/vendor dynamic is one of the harshest tests of a friendship.
Return of The Dancing Turkey
Happy Thanksgiving for all those feasting and celebrating today. Enjoy!
To see the note click here.To hide the note click here.
This is a re-post of the Dancing Turkey last seen in 2009 on the Happy Turkey Day post.
K.I.S.S.
K.I.S.S. it until it gets complicated.
~Terri Caissie
I love my wife, especially when she comes up with these wonderful phrases.
Goodbye Klout
Although I was quick to jump on the Klout wagon when I first came across it, this is just a quick note more than anything else about my just as quick decision to stop using the service.
I would expect no one should see any more unsolicited tweets et al. to use the service from me; and I also believe I have clicked enough buttons and disconnected all of the services that were attached to Klout as well.
I didn’t find any “close my account” or “cancel my service” options but then again Klout really does not seem all that interested in having your permission to assign a “score”.
So long and thanks for all the +K.
WordCamp Toronto 2011 Takeaway
Although WordCamp Toronto 2011 was last weekend there were several ideas I will be taking away from it in regards to future development, best practices, as well as some interesting concepts and discussions. To keep it simple I’m just going to list these items (with their inspiration):
- Install MultiSite for use with Theme Demos (Ron and Andrea Rennick)
- Look into PhoneGap to make HTML5 WebApps for the iPhone * Review Sencha Touch as well (Trevor Mills)
- Review all of my Themes to add a ‘description’ parameter to the register_sidebar and register_sidebars definitions * Update the codex, too, if it is not done yet (Jeremy Clarke)
- Monetize What You Do (Christopher Ross)
- Develop “site” plugin(s) (Rick Radko)
- Use inline documentation * PHPDoc (Chip Bennett)
- Review do_action and apply_filters in place of conditional function checks (Chip Bennett)
There were many more ideas and great pieces of advice, as well as some really sound tips and suggestions through the day (which I simply made myself comfortable in the Developer track for the duration).
The above were just the ones I specifically made note of (literally using the “Sticky Notes” program). Don’t ask me why I didn’t use EverNote at the time, but all of the above are now listed in an EverNote list for future reference and recollections.
Some of these ideas I am already putting into action, such as the inline documentation in a PHPDoc style; some items I had already been looking at; and others are more as reminders to keep thinking about what can be done.
Just like my site tagline at WPFirstAid: It’s WordPress … anything is possible!
The Little Things
Once the big picture is drawn, it’s the little things that separate the good from the great.
Happy Halloween 2011
Thanks to my lovely wife, Terri. Enjoy!
New < 140
I just updated my < 140 block to:
I am Cais: WordPress junkie and blogger; maker of fine themes and plugins; WP Theme Review Team admin; Guitar player; and, mischief manager
For consistency purposes it’s the same “bio” details I use on most (all?) of the social networking services I belong to; which, sadly, are simply too many to remember at the moment.
Although my primary social media site is Twitter (@JellyBeen) I can be found most places if you search for Edward Caissie … look me up; and let me know you saw this post, too!
WordPress 3.3-beta1
Although it was released yesterday, I am following my normal routine of using it live now.
If you are interested in following along and helping with the beta testing, you can read my post on WPFirstAid.com on how to “Start Using WordPress Beta“, or you can download the “Nightly Build” at WordPress and start from there.