For many years I have had an AlexaRank widget in the sidebar of this site. When the site was still small and was not running a bunch of additional functionality the previous AlexaRank plugin worked just fine, albeit slowly. Over time this site has gotten slower and slower (primarily due to all the assets Jetpack

Apple products continue to amaze me. I have a Macbook Air from 2013 that still holds a great charge. Check out this screenshot recently taken. It shows a 16 hour charge on a battery with 86% left! Now this in not entirely typical. The time to battery depletion will change depending on what you are

In the past few years I have worked on many projects that involved implementing a testing infrastructure, I have spoken at conferences on the important of and theories of testing, and I have led workshops training beginners in testing. In all that time I have looked for a good concise and easy to read resource

I fly a lot. Navigating airports has become second nature to me however we all have our moments, or in this case a whole series of moments… My coworkers are amazing. The company is distributed so we do not see each other in person often. Lastnight a few of us gathered together for merrimaking. I

While working on a plugin to monitor incoming interactions with the xmlrpc in WordPress I had the need to discover which xmlrpc method was being called. Turns out this is not a simple as it seems it should be. WordPress uses what I gather is an older external library that does not contain any hooks