Month: June 2011

  • Source control strategy for WordPress sites

    My background is more in software and web application development, not website development. So when I started doing a few websites on the side, I wanted to translate some of the tools and processes that I use everyday as a developer to this new role. As I compared the different CMS options, WordPress was the […]

  • Google Finance Web Service Fail

    A couple weeks ago, I was checking out Google Finance and noticed something scary. One of two things had just occurred; either the whole world just went broke or (slightly more likely) the web service call to retrieve the data had failed or timeout. While the scenario was quickly fixed by refreshing the page, these are […]

  • Migrating Multiple WordPress Sites to a single Multisite

    Until recently, I have been using WordPress solely for more this blog. With the release of version 3.0, I decided to read through the release notes and noticed some great features. With the addition of custom post types introduced in version 2.9, WordPress makes a dandy content management system. Discussing this with Morton (@mor10) at MIX 2011 […]