Posts Tagged ‘wordpress’
Just a quick note to let everyone know about the new release of WordPress 3.0. This represents the culmination of several months of development by over 200 developers. And, finally, one of my contributions made the cut and was contributed to core! I’ve been building on WordPress for 3 years now, but up ’til now all of my contributions have been obscure enough to be relegated to the world of plug-ins rather than core code. No longer. Now it’s official. Just take a look at my name amongst the 218 core developers on the WP announcement page!
It is a good day 
Just to forewarn you, this might come across as a more technical post than I normally throw at you. Still, I did something exciting last night that I wanted to share and perhaps educate you about.
I built a custom XML-RPC server.
It’s no secret that I do a fair bit of developing for the open source platform WordPress. It’s fun to do, gives a productive outlet during my down time, and has led to the creation of a revenue source when I’m low on clients. Unfortunately, there’s not much I can do about the plug-ins I develop after I release them to the public.
Lately, I’ve found myself responding to several advertisements on Craigslist. There seem to be a lot of people who could benefit from my services, and I take the time to respond to each of their listings with a customized note explaining what I can do to help and the best ways to contact me. The other day I even put my own listing up on a similar website in an attempt to solicit collaboration from the WordPress development community. I realize now that both of these services might not be the best in the world.
Recently, I was working with a small software company in Portland that had an interesting sequence in its version control. They started, as usual, with version 1.0. Then came 1.0.1 and a bunch of branches after that through something like 1.0.20.