There is a lot of talk these days about tapping into the resources available through external APIs such as Twitter, Facebook, etc, but what is an API and how should we be using them? In this article I am going to walk you through the concepts behind pulling data from an external API, sending data

Over the past couple years many people have come to me for advise on getting a job, and a few have asked me to help in the process. I created my own method and thus far it has been highly successful. Out of the 9 people I have been directly involved with helping, 8.5 of

I have been given the great honor of speaking at the 2012 Las Vegas WordCamp. Las Vegas is a place that my life travels have not yet sent me, so I am excited for this opportunity to visit such an iconic city and socialize with the amazing WordPress community. I will be talking about Interacting

The incredible 2012 WordCamp Portland organizer team invited me to come down and give a presentation on WP-Cron today. As usual at any WordCamp I have spoken at, I gained much more than I gave, this is particularly true of my own session. The community interaction and Q&A portion was most insightful to me. Major

I submitted three session proposals for the 2012 Portland WordCamp and am happy to announce that I have been accepted as a speaker this year. My session is on WordPress’ built-in task scheduler, WP-Cron. A brief description: Cron is a very powerful, system level, task scheduler, but how do you set up scheduled tasks if