mikeschinkel

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by mikeschinkel 12y ago
As a pragmatic developer, I love WordPress. it's the most productive programming platform I've found, and with PhpStorm to develop with it, I'm come to find it rather elegant, albeit not what most PHP non-WP programmers want
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by mikeschinkel 12y ago
23% at this point.
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by mikeschinkel 12y ago
WordPress doesn't do minor and major versions; they just add 0.1 to the last release. In general it has worked very well for them and the WordPress community.
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by mikeschinkel 13y ago
As someone who is a full-time WordPress platform architect, I completely agree with @deathspin here.
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by mikeschinkel 13y ago
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a-...
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by mikeschinkel 13y ago
> Users want a manageable and appropriate amount of complexity. Sane defaults, reasonable options. +1
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by mikeschinkel 13y ago
I've frequently heard designers, developers and VPs of Engineering -- which I'll collectively call "builders" -- argue that a product should have fewer features and thus should be "simple." But I honestly can&#
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by mikeschinkel 13y ago
RIGHT ON, BROTHER!
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by mikeschinkel 13y ago
Erm, APC can be used as a memory store, too. http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/09/27/apc-or-memcac...
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by mikeschinkel 13y ago
What are those "very difficult design decisions embedded into WordPress that make life much harder for them than it needs to be for you" prey tell?
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by mikeschinkel 14y ago
Dayum Travis, Harsh, just harsh! :)
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by mikeschinkel 14y ago
@eamann, I gotta give @masklinn credit there, you didn't explicitly make it clear your post was focused on WordPress-related use-cases. It was obvious to me from your references and knowing your focus but maybe not obvious to those who don'
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by mikeschinkel 14y ago
In the case of WordPress plugins which is what Eric was writing about you know they never will go from one instance to two.
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by mikeschinkel 14y ago
I support Eric here. Singleton make sense in WordPress specifically for encapsulating plugins. In WordPress plugins can never have more than one instance so it's really a moot point to expect them to be anything else. Outside of WordPress p
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by mikeschinkel 14y ago
"Why half-assedly try to hide the fact that you're using them by wrapping them into a singleton?" I may be misunderstanding your context for the above comment but when I use singleton classes for WordPress plugins I do so to avoid potential
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by mikeschinkel 14y ago
If they goal is to target the WordPress user base then the question of "why aren't you using a real language?" is moot.
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by mikeschinkel 14y ago
See my reply to you about why above.
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by mikeschinkel 14y ago
It's interesting that you mention this: "Yes we don't have an out of the box CMS aimed at the WP market yet but that just means someone needs to make it." I've got 3 "generations" of developer ecosystems under my belt[1][2][3] and from that
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by mikeschinkel 14y ago
For some it's more important the market they are addressing than the language they are using. WordPress is written in PHP and has over 17% of the web at this point. If you want to address the WordPress market as the author of the referenced
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by mikeschinkel 14y ago
Choice is often not good. Consider these: - Choice in plug type for electrical devices - Choice in power adapter connection for cell phones - Choice of driving on the left side or the right side of the road - Choice of location for the bra
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by mikeschinkel 17y ago
It's not only other hackers that are beneficial to meet. It's potential employees and potential customers. For example, there were many non-hackers at ProductCamp (which I was unfortunately too sick to attend.) Did you go to that? BTW, what
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by mikeschinkel 17y ago
@wehriam: I'm with Russell on this. It doesn't sounds like you actually read the article. Russell's "read Steve Blank" is some of the best advice he could give. I'm constantly advising local startups to first go get customers instead of fir