For about 10 years, I have been providing a variety of services to clients, first as a guy who would build web pages on weekends and evenings, and then as an independent entrepreneur. While the scope of the work performed has varied over the years, I’ve always been focused on the web. In recent years, this has [...]
Meet Me at SXSW (and maybe hire me)
March 2, 2010 Leave a Comment
In a little over a week and a half, the lion share of the web technology community will be descending on Austin, Texas for the 2010 edition of SXSW Interactive. As in the last 3 years, I will be there as well.
My agenda this year is very simple:
Promote the WordPress Bible,
Find new and interesting companies [...]
Happy President’s Day (or Snow Day) Sale
February 15, 2010 Leave a Comment
That’s why I’d like to offer you a special deal in honor of President’s Day and this weather. For $150, I will spend 30 minutes on the phone with you discussing strategy and recommendations pertaining to your WordPress-powered site. This is the same amount of time that I usually spend speaking to a room of people at conferences. Except, in this case, it’s one on one.
Facebook HipHop and WordPress
February 2, 2010 1 Comment
By now, the news has hit the street about Facebook’s new PHP pseudo-compiler technology that is looking set to change the PHP world once again. It is called HipHop for PHP.
Here at Emmense, we build on PHP and more specifically, we build on WordPress. The PHP community as a whole continues to innovate the language [...]
Changing WordPress Upload Directory File Permissions
January 31, 2010 Leave a Comment
Quick How-to here on folder permissions to allow for WordPress image uploading. Some have reported seeing an error similar to below.
This error is confusing for non-technical users. How to fix it?
Well, it turns out it’s pretty easy. First, you need to make sure you have an FTP client. This will allow you to manage [...]
SSHKey Management Made Easy
December 15, 2009 1 Comment
I’ve been working with Linux for years now, and one of the main things you learn early on is that it’s better to use an SSHKey than it is to use a password. It gets confusing to some people (including myself), sometimes, where things are supposed to go to make it simple to do password-less [...]
PHP Doesn’t Do WordPress and WordPress Doesn’t Do PHP
December 3, 2009 34 Comments
If there’s one thing I have been consistent on in the past (almost) 6 years of blogging and engaging on the web, it’s that I believe in the mantra “no sacred cows”. In politics, I confound and confuse members of both parties who look at life through sterilized lenses that reflect their party platform. I will often stir up controversy by dragging people into a process of debate that, while respectful, causes them to think and re-think their positions. At least that’s the goal. I am a fiercely independent thinker and though some of my closest friends are on the left, I’ve ruthlessly challenged the parts of the left that I don’t like while supporting the ones I do. I’ve done the same thing with folks on the right. More after the jump.
Can’t Access BuddyPress links Anymore? Try This Power Tip
November 23, 2009 Leave a Comment
Quick documenting of a little known edge-case fix. If you head to the BuddyPress forums to find out why users can’t access BuddyPress links anymore, you’re likely to find answers involving a change in how BuddyPress handles themes between version 1.0.3 and version 1.1. The answer typically goes something along the lines of, “Make sure [...]
PHP Twitter version 2 Coming Soon!
November 7, 2009 7 Comments
Lot’s of people have been using the php-twitter class that we released last year. We’re grateful that so many people have chosen to use the library. However, we also acknowledge that the class has significant shortcoming, not the least has been bugs and, well, things just not working as prescribed.
With that in mind, version 2 [...]
WordPress Preset Options Plugin
July 11, 2009 1 Comment
Late yesterday evening, my friend @immunity pointed me to Dan Gilmore’s post about hacking the database for WordPress MU to manually set options across a variety of blogs. @immunity figured there must be a better way and, indeed, there is.
In fact, I had written some code while at b5media which just did this. Because I [...]
