Product Management, WordPress, and some other odd things
I’m currently running Apple Mail with the unified inbox option, so I can connect to my old company email address as well as my Code for the People address and see everything in one place. There’s settings in Mail to allow you to set the default sending address, and when you reply to a mail …
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The alarm in question looks like this: The red light indicates a fault, which is why I’ve finally confronted my inability to remove it (hopefully your smoke alarm fault-free).
This approach was primarily devised for use with WP Engine staging sites, but will work in any situation where you have no access to Apache’s config and need to use a single .htaccess file for multiple domains (e.g. a multisite setup). We’ve recently had a couple of projects hosted on WPEngine where we need to …
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We’re using WP Engine to host various clients, notably the Rolling Stones site, and we’ve been very pleased with both the service and the performance of their hosting platform. There’s always something though, isn’t there? I don’t think I’d really be happy if there wasn’t. In this case it’s the fact the Varnish caching layer …
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Here’s the presentation I gave to Manchester WordPress User Group last night on the first WordPress Community Summit in 2012. Here’s Jane Wells’ initial post explaining the thinking behind the summit. If you want to learn more about what’s going on, you can see the summaries posted on the day for the morning and the …
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For many of our projects, the .htaccess file is under version control… but at the same time, I need to put HTTP Basic Authentiation on just the staging site. Unfortunately the host weren’t able to do this for me, but with a little .htaccess trickery I was able to detect the staging site URL and …
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“Cooperate on a technical level and compete on a business level.” Jeffrey McGuire, Acquia Seen on a slide at PHPNW12, I like this summary of how companies interrelate in open source.
Ben Waine’s (@bwaine) talk at PHPNW12 on application logging. As usual, these are my thoughts, misunderstandings and mishearings…corrections welcome in the comments. So, can logging be cool?
John Cleveley (@jcleveley) from Auntie BBC talking about the responsive development of BBC News. Usual caveat applies, (a) these are my notes on my thoughts as well as his words, and (b) I may have misheard or misunderstood. Current site is static files and a lot of Apache includes! Responsive sites: cool… but hard! Moving …
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