Yuri Victor: Why The Washington Post Uses WordPress
August 20, 2013Great presentation from Yuri Victor at WordCamp San Francisco about how and why they use (and love) WordPress at the Washington Post.
Adobe Brackets: From Design Comp To Code
June 20, 2013This looks pretty smart. I never really got used to slicing my designs from Photoshop so normally i just create all assets manually. Not very professional, i know. But maybe it’s time to give it another try.
Creating a high quality WordPress Theme is about more than just a nice design. What’s going on under the hood is equally important: using the right Template files, writing clean code and testing for all kinds of content.
Luckily there is a wealth of information, plugins and other helpful tools available on the web. This is an overview of the best resources to help you develop Themes according to the best practices.
Fränk Klein composed a handy list of resources on WordPress Theme Development Best Practices. Definitely something to bookmark.
Pressgr.am
March 17, 2013
There was a lot of rumble when Instagram changed their licensing somewhen last year. I never used Instagram for myself, but i know that a lot of creative people left frustrated because of that. Some of them completely stopped sharing images on social networks, some where moving (back) to flickr or to 500px, which might be somewhat better in terms of licensing, but still are third party solution.
I thought there has to be a way to solve this with WordPress and searched for Apps/Plugins etc. but i couldn’t find what i was looking for. If there only was an app, kind of like Instagram or flickr, which would let us connect and share our images directly to our own WordPress Installations, instead of a third party service. It would let us build our own Photo Stream, our own Instagrams, completely self-controlled and not depending on someone else. It would be awesome.
Execute Book
March 9, 2013
Josh Long an Drew Wilson made a very good example of “executing” when they wrote a whole book about executing in only 8 days from idea to finish. It’s a long time ago since i read a complete book on one day and i really enjoyed it. It’s fascinating to see how something as awesome as Space Box was built in just five days and learn a little bit about the mindset of the developer behind it, Drew Wilson. I honestly didn’t expected that much of inspiration from this book and i can definitely recommend to read it.
I’ll share some thoughts i had while and after reading this book.