Category: General

Updating the site

I always used my site as a playground and in the upcoming weeks I’m trying to modernize it and make it more stable. Tonight I started with updated my about text a bit and the style of my buttons to be more flat. Also trying to see how I can integrate my daily work better in […]

Speaking at WordCamp Paris

On Friday January 17th I will be speaking at WordCamp Paris. It’s an honor for me to be speaking at this WordCamp since it’s their first WordCamp that allows English talks. Another reason why this is special is that my employer 1&1 will sponsor this WordCamp too and it will be their first. The organization also […]

This is who I am

Last year was a interesting year and a year that I had enough discussions about things that I disliked in the WordPress community. And I know that some people got offended by it and think I nag about everything. The interesting part is that my friends outside WordPress know be in a complete different way. […]

Changing the image workflow

In one of my previous blog posts I talked about changing the image editor UI. But this is just a small thing in the whole workflow of dealing with images. Some of the pain points are within how we deal with creating image sizes and how we can edit those and I will going to […]

Mutual respect in our community

First of all I don’t use names because I don’t think that is relevant. If you followed the last 48 hours on Twitter then you know who they are but this blog post isn’t about attacking people but about understanding each other. No matter what gender and religion we have and where we live. The […]

The next big step in life

Sometimes you make a decision that changes a lot of things. This week I made one. I decided to start working for a boss again. It isn’t something that I needed to do but the opportunity is a nice one and I decided to give it a change. It means changing everything since the job […]

A fresh new Image editor UI for WordPress

In the beginning of this year I played with a image editor dialog to replace the current image editor. Mainly because that one doesn’t make any sense with the new media dialog. It makes the user experience weird and it’s really ugly hack what they did in 3.5. Opening a new tab to edit an image […]

Open source and my opinion on it

This is a blog post that I want to write for a long period but never really now how to structure it. Even the title changed for what I had in mind. I’m even not sure how it is structured right now. In essence open source is that the code is made available for anyone […]

The future of WPDB

Lately I’m busy with exploring the future of WPDB. Ticket number #21663 on Trac has a lot of discussions and Kurt Payne started with redoing the code. From his code I built a plugin that can be found on WordPress.org. This allows you to use PDO, MySQLi and MySQL functions. It will choose the one that […]

My involvement in GlotPress

GlotPress is a collaborative, web-based software translation tool. It allows you to your translate plugins and themes and gives your users also a way to contribute back. The website http://translate.wordpress.org is also powered by GlotPress and lets you translate things as WordPress core and the mobile apps. The history This year I started with a […]

Contributing back a little bit more

A few days ago I decided to contribute 20 hours per week of my time to WordPress and related projects. I did this also for 3.5 and it was a great experience by developing the new image manipulation logic with Mike Schroder. I also fixed some XML-RPC issues and other random things. Will contribute on average 20 […]

Blogging on a regular basic

The next weeks I will do a few blog posts every week. I decided that I must blog more after WordCamp UK and the idea from Mario to do three blog posts every week sounds as a good plan. It will be posted on WP Unknown and this blog depending if it’s a technical WordPress […]