thoughts from a /software engineer[ing manager]/
Today is the last day to vote for proposals for next year’s SXSW Interactive Festival (though if history precedes itself, it could be extended), and I’ve spent a good amount of time promoting what I think should be a killer topic for attendees. “Deploying WordPress: From Zero to Ninja” will cover business-oriented subjects like developing in […]
This issue has been floating around for a while, but I only ran up against it a couple of weeks ago. The short of it is that if you have Internet Explorer users complaining that they are unable to download usable zip files from your WordPress or otherwise LAMP website, this may be the fix […]
Try uninstalling Web Deploy 2.0. I’ve had IIS and Apache running smoothly for months on a new machine, and suddenly after installing SQL Server 2008 R2 and some Silverlight (yuck) tools to maintain an existing app, Apache reported that port 80 was already taken by “Microsoft HTTPAPI/2.0”. I think it snuck in, along with an unwanted […]
I really don’t mind being patient with Google+ site errors, but I really would prefer an accurate error message to being given a list of all the things it *could* be. But let’s talk about our own websites, and how they could work better when errors pop up. You should ensure that your users are […]
Developers can all relate to a fast-approaching deadline, and though your plate is already full, your email dings at you and you’re faced with yet another request from the designer you’re working with to change the look and feel of your project. Swap that background image, add some margin, adjust the kerning, maybe un-serif all of the […]