I’ll be giving a presentation at the Seattle WordPress Developers Meetup tomorrow about how to write WordPress plugins that are both object-oriented, and implement the Model-View-Controller pattern.
If you plan on attending, you can follow along with the slides and download the lab files.
It’s not possible to create grandchild themes in the same way that you create child themes, but you can use a plugin to dequeue/enqueue stylesheets and scripts, and also override the locations of the main query templates.
It’s obviously not the ideal solution, but there are cases where it may be the least-bad one.
Zach Holman explains why textual mediums like chat and e-mail are often better ways to communicate and collaborate than real-time mediums like conference calls and face-to-face meetings, but also recognizes that there are a few situations where the opposite is true. Just one more reason why I strongly prefer working remotely.
Corey Freeman makes a good argument for why it’s important to read content in its entirety, rather than just scanning it.
Shane Pearlman just published an article on the importance of usability testing that has some good advice. One of the tools mentioned is usertesting.com, which looks like an easy way to get feedback on projects.
It’s common for developers to share login credentials with clients and team members through e-mail or other insecure mediums, but there aren’t a lot firmly established best practices on how to do it properly. I came across a SuperUser thread yesterday that contains several good ideas, and decided to add one of my own as well.
CSS-Tricks has a useful snippet showing how to make exceptions to .htaccess password protection based on the requested URL.