Reno is about to get hacked, in a good way. Reno Collective has partnered with the City of Reno in order to put on the first Hack4Reno event in downtown Reno. For 24 hours, teams from all over Northern Nevada will set off to build apps, websites, services and tools that help make Reno a [...] Read more – ‘Hack for Change in Reno’.
Below is a talk I gave at Las Vegas WordCamp in Fall 2010 on building web app mashups with WordPress and the options available for doing so. Read more – ‘Your Web App is in my WordPress!’.
Reno-Tahoe WordCamp 2010 is in 9 days! Here are the shirts for this year’s event, designed by Diego Sabogal. Only the first 150 registered attendees will receive a shirt so sign up now! Read more – ‘Reno-Tahoe WordCamp Shirts’.
Here is video from the presentation I did at the Orange County WordCamp 2010 discussing specific methods for using WordPress as a content management system, including when WordPress is best for your site and how you can optimize your WordPress use for a complete site. Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media Read more – ‘WordPress as a CMS on WordPress.TV’.
Here are my slides from my presentation at OC WordCamp this weekend. It was a great event and I hope everyone learned a few things! If you’ve never been to an event like this and you use WordPress, or are interested in learning more about the platform, look for a WordCamp in your area. The [...] Read more – ‘OC WordCamp: WordPress as a CMS’.
I submitted an application to Google’s Summer of Code last year on building a CMS Theme Framework for wordpress and I’m back at it this year. An IDE for WordPress Plugins & Themes My proposal for GSOC 2010 is an integrated development environment for WordPress to allow for integration between the code editor, publishing, developer [...] Read more – ‘WP Builder: An IDE for WordPress Plugins & Themes’.
It’s a busy time in the world of WordPress. The Lively Labs crew will be out and about for various WordCamps over the next couple months. We use WordPress heavily as our content management system of choice for most projects and are always glad to be involved and contribute to the community. April 24th: Orange [...] Read more – ‘WoW: World of WordPress’.
Formatting dates has always been the bane of my existence and tonight, I couldn’t figure out how to calculate the day of the week based on a date when coding in apex on the Force.com platform. I found this wikipedia article: Calculating the day of the week and used it to build the following function. [...] Read more – ‘Calculating the day of the week in Apex code’.
WordPress as a Content Management System I currently use WordPress for many of my projects. Want to start a blog? WordPress is a perfect fit. Do you want to build a website on WordPress? WordPress can do that too. However, because WordPress was originally designed as a blogging platform, there are quite a few tweaks [...] Read more – ‘A CMS Theme Framework for WordPress’.
I presented the following presentation at the first-ever Nevada Interactive Media Summit last week. My presentation consisted mostly of demonstrations in Adobe Flex Builder but if you plug the code below into Flex, you should be able to follow along. A video of the presentation should be available soon. Adobe Flex: Creating Widgets for the [...] Read more – ‘Adobe Flex: Creating Widgets for the Desktop & Web’.
