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The Difficulty Level of Becoming a Web Developer is Growing
I know it’ll be odd coming from someone who yesterday made a commitment to daily blogging, but I’ve been overwhelmed with tech for a while now. Part of it is the endless news cycle, both about and enabled by technology. Part of it is the way that it can feel like an entire day is…
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Making a Commitment to My Blog
I regularly tell myself that it’s time to blog again. All I need to do is write more of what I’m thinking, share more tutorials, and develop content around what people who hire my company might want to see. I need to prove value to get people to pull out their wallets, and a personal…
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Books in Review, 2017 – Technology
In the final day of reviewing the 54 books that I’ve finished so far in 2017, I’m talking about books focused mainly on technology. I work in tech, I talk tech all the time, and one day I want to be known for writing about tech too. In the Beginning…Was the Command Line Neal Stephenson…
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Books in Review, 2017 – Autobiographies and Biographies
Today's books are mainly autobiographies, with one biography tossed in. I generally prefer autobiographies since they are direct from the source. While they lack the detachment and long view that a biography might possess, memoirs and personal accounts feel more visceral and real to me. Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How…
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Books in Review, 2017 – Fiction
Today is a focus on the fiction books that I read this year. I read more fiction than I have in the past few years, as I got stuck in the rut of assuming that only non-ficton was worth the majority of my time. Stories, even those not based in fact, are useful thinking tools,…
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Books in Review, 2017 – Culture and Politics
Today's focus is on books that relate to culture or politics. I chose a mix of older and newer books this year. As the first few books show, the problems of yesterday are the problems of today in a different form. The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads I'm going to…
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Books in Review, 2017 – Business Tactics
I don’t read many business books, but this year I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about how my businesses are working out. I’ve been running Orange Blossom Media for about nine years now, and FixUpFox has been my main focus for the past two years. I’m working on updates to both, as well as…
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Returning to Writing with Reviews
I make a variety of pledges to myself every year, and one that consistently comes up is to write more. Not that Tweets, emails, instructions, and comments aren’t writing, but they aren’t the standalone pieces that I want to use as a catalogue of experiences. Looking back on the year, I published a grand total…
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Securing Yourself and Your Business – A Basic Primer
I’m giving a talk this weekend at Florida DrupalCamp on some basic personal security tips. The focus isn’t on development security, or on securing Drupal projects, but instead is meant to be applicable to pretty much everybody. If you spend any time on the internet, this guide can offer some help to you. First: Why…
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Binge and Purge: My Social Media Diet is Gross
A few days ago I woke up and against my own judgement decided to check my email before exercise. Unsurprisingly, with a world news email that I get every morning, there was something that got me angry and instantly shot up my already not great blood pressure. I finally made a decision that had been…
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Bash scripting to automate site builds with WP-CLI
I told myself that I would endeavor to create a project using an entirely new-to-me technology every month, and on the last possible day in January I’m doing a writeup on a bit of bash and wp-cli code written for last week’s WordPress Orlando Meetup. While I didn’t quite hit the mark, I did learn…
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Automating New Sites with VVV, VV, Blueprints, and Bash
Who wants to start building new sites quicker? Whether for yourself, for friends, or for clients, you have probably set up more than a few WordPress sites by now. There are probably quite a few things that you do on a regular basis for those sites, right? Here’s a few things that I do: Pull…