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LEAN is an application “ecosystem” for Angular apps powered by the WordPress REST API

Brian Krogsgard

May 7, 2016

LEAN (I hope you'll excuse me for only using Lean from now on) is a framework that integrates Angular and the WordPress REST API. They term it an "ecosystem" because it's a series of integrated projects that all work nicely…

I’ve seen a few folks fawn…

April 21, 2016

I've seen a few folks fawn over Kite recently, which brands itself as a "co-pilot" for developers. As you code in your IDE or even the terminal, it provides helpful reminders, definitions, and catches misspellings. Watch the video too see…

John Jacoby writes how everything is…

April 21, 2016

John Jacoby writes how everything is a variable, and although I won't spoil all this points and his final conclusion I wanted to share this: Once plugins and themes can (and will) start flexing more PHP muscle, the WordPress world…

Server Pilot on top of Digital Ocean

Brian Krogsgard

April 21, 2016

Hosting

This afternoon, I spent a few minutes playing with Server Pilot, after seeing is mentioned in Slack for at least the fifth time. Server Pilot offers a control panel and an API for managing WordPress installs on top of Digital…

Make WordPress Great Again

Brian Krogsgard

March 21, 2016

The 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey is out. It's got a ton of data and it's been shared around a good bit already. In terms of WordPress, it appeared on the "winners" list in terms of "trending tech", but the survey notes…

The Jorbin Test

Aaron Jorbin

March 4, 2016

BusinessCareers

The Joel Test has largely stood the test of time, yet there isn't a WordPress specific version to help WordPress developers judge job opportunities. The Jorbin Test is the Joel Test, updated for the WordPress engineers of today.

Complete coverage should not be a requirement for core inclusion of WordPress REST API endpoints

Brian Krogsgard

February 9, 2016

BusinessDesign

The WordPress REST API is at a bit of a crossroads. There is a proposal on the table by the core team of four contributors — Ryan McCue, Rachel Baker, Daniel Bachhuber, and Joe Hoyle — to ship endpoints to WordPress core iteratively. There is a pushback on this proposal by WordPress Project Lead and co-founder Matt Mullenweg.

PHP 5.6 support to be extended through 2018

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2016

Security

PHP has voted on a proposal to extend support for PHP 5.6 -- the most recent non-PHP-7 release -- through 2018. The vote is a great step for WordPress, as version 5.6 only has about 12% adoption still. PHP 5.6…

State of the Word, 2015

Brian Krogsgard

December 5, 2015

PlanetWordPress News

Matt Mullenweg has just completed the 2015 State of the Word, the annual speech where he highlights the last year of everything WordPress and what we can anticipate in the future.

JavaScript and the future of WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

November 30, 2015

Scott Bolinger has written a great post that outlines some of the things to consider for a future that includes a more JavaScript-centric WordPress. Two of the most thought provoking sections of his post are on enabling support for plugins,…

Interview with Automattic CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on Calypso and more

Brian Krogsgard

November 25, 2015

DraftHosting

Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of WordPress, and founder and CEO of Automattic. In this interview, we talk about their new WordPress.com editor, and more.

Automattic has released an open source WordPress.com Mac app

Brian Krogsgard

November 23, 2015

PlanetWordPress News

Calypso is an ambitious Mac app from Automattic to bring the WordPress publishing and site management experience to the desktop.

What software, other than WordPress, requires…

November 13, 2015

What software, other than WordPress, requires that PHP 7 tests pass, and yet doesn't use any features post-PHP 5.2? That's kind of awesome, honestly.

WordPress shortcomings, from developers that prefer other software

Brian Krogsgard

October 26, 2015

The Toast is a popular blog that recently underwent a redesign, and includes an in-depth series on the Responsive Web Design blog going over many of the implementation and process details. The series doesn't speak particularly highly (or accurately) about…

What makes some companies in the open source software world different

Brian Krogsgard

October 6, 2015

Business

For a long time, I've debated with myself about what makes some consulting companies get a lot more attention in the open source software world versus others. The key factor, I think, is community engagement -- and I mean engagement…

I got an email from a…

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2015

I got an email from a friend today, who is hosted on DreamHost, saying they had upgraded her company's website to PHP 5.6. In it, they also noted they are removing PHP 5.3 and PHP 5.4 completely from their system…

LEAN is an application “ecosystem” for Angular apps powered by the WordPress REST API

I’ve seen a few folks fawn…

John Jacoby writes how everything is…

Server Pilot on top of Digital Ocean

Make WordPress Great Again

The Jorbin Test

Complete coverage should not be a requirement for core inclusion of WordPress REST API endpoints

PHP 5.6 support to be extended through 2018

State of the Word, 2015

JavaScript and the future of WordPress

Interview with Automattic CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on Calypso and more

Automattic has released an open source WordPress.com Mac app

What software, other than WordPress, requires…

WordPress shortcomings, from developers that prefer other software

What makes some companies in the open source software world different

I got an email from a…

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