Buried deep in the bowels of Twitter.com is a really neat tool for doing advanced searches. You just have to know where to look. Because for some odd reason, Twitter doesn’t make it easy to find. When I learned that someone who I consider pretty web-savvy didn’t know about the advanced search, I figured I’d…
I recently had the honor (and challenge!) of leading the team that organized the largest French WordPress event to date: WordCamp Paris 2016. There have already been lots of great reviews about the WordCamp; about the 32 talks, the change in venue and the networking opportunities. For me, the event itself was like slaving over a meal all day…
Growing up, “slack” was synonymous with a complete lack of productivity or being a downright loser. These days, it’s the exact opposite. Before I go into the Where and the Why, let’s briefly look at What. What is this Slack you speak of? When I first heard about Slack, I thought, “Oh great, one more…
On Monday I sent out my first newsletter and have received a lot of great feedback and encouragement to continue. It was a pre-newsletter really, because in it I mention that it’s new, that it’s the first time I’ve opened up a mailing list to the public, and that I admittedly have no idea what…
I wish all of you the very best this new year has to offer: health, happiness, love, prosperity. 2015 was a difficult year for me and for many people I’ve spoken with. It was a year full of challenges and hard times. But that also means that it was a year full of GROWTH, and…
This is something I’ve been wanting to do for a while now: test for some basic CSS to create a comprehensive list of what TCPDF, my preferred method for generating PDFs on the web, does and doesn’t take into account. It took prepping for my talk at WPTech to finally get me to sit down…
This month marks the 15 year anniversary of when I set out on my own as a freelancer, building websites for small businesses. I’ve met extraordinary people along the way, produced volumes of work that (most days) I’m quite proud of, confronted numerous challenges and found myself doing and learning things I never would have…
This article was initially commissioned to be part of a series exploring the different multilingual plugins for WordPress, for the popular French site WPChannel.com. As per my usual, I got a little carried away and ended up writing over 2000 words about my first experiences using WordPress as a multilingual platform, why I chose and…
For months now I’ve had a print out taped to the wall in front of my desk that reads, “Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most.” This has been a gentle reminder to me in those moments when I’m prone to take the short view rather than the…
When I got back to the dismal ticket office with the long wait, all the seats were taken. I looked at the board: 292. My face was still flush, but not leaking as much and the coughing was under control. I was planning on ignoring the daily limit on those throat lozenges, popping a new…