Although, I’m surrounded by PHP masters, and PHP programming isn’t in my job description, I want to be at least “PHP dangerous”.
I Want To Be PHP Dangerous
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Category Archives: Work
A Day Away Is Work That Still Needs Doing
When you work for a small company, a day away is work that still needs doing.
Mercurial No More
“32 of your friends joined the (FaceBook) group ex-Mercs.”
Word
Julia and I are in the San Francisco bay area for WordCamp which is WordPress annual (2nd year) real-world main event. I can’t wait!
The speakers are amazing, and the people coming to participate are just as amazing! I have the pleasure of speaking about Getting Involved with WordPress with Mark Jaquith.
This week, will come and go much too quickly, with Julia leaving early Monday morning.
Then the whole Automattic team is together in an Alcatraz-like setting for a week to catch up with each other, plot some of our course ahead, and continue to make it happen.
Why You Don’t Want To Work At A Large Company
It’s no longer about people, it’s about greed.
Petty
I have been tripping out lately about the problems of the world, many influenced by our American cousins. I am fragile and this “stuff” affects me. I can’t help, but feel that most of what I am most passionate about is petty.
Contributing to free culture and open source takes the edge off, and helps me feel grounded. The other half, the greater half, is my Julia, family and friends (including all of my Automattic colleagues, local friends, and fellow contributors). I am very fortunate.
Isolate a Problem
“Person has [environment] A. There is a problem X. Trying to troubleshoot X will be difficult until I can start to change the situation to see what happens to the problem.”
Writes WordPress Support Maven Mark in Please try Firefox . Not only is he the best support person, I have ever worked with, he is an excellent at ad-hoc testing and problem isolation — no surprise, these contribute to his maven status.
On Open APIs
“No business development back and forth, no contracts, no friction. They just implemented it and contacted us a couple of days ago to give us a heads up.”
Toni on Lightning. Toni includes a well titled link of self-serve business development to his post “Open Source vs. Open APIs”.
“Sexy Pictures”, “Hot Photos”
Adam O Caoimh
The Automattic family had a recent addition of Donncha’s baby boy Adam O Caoimh.
Julia and I greatly look forward to meeting Adam in person some day.