Michaelbox

 

Warn­ing, long post

The intro­duc­tion

If you have ever seen my twit­ter inter­ac­tion with Grace Smith then you know that we are pretty endear­ing to each other as friends and col­leagues in the world of free­lance. Over the past few years that we’ve known of each other, we have grown to trust each other and rely on the other’s pro­fes­sion­al­ism and knowl­edge in our respec­tive areas of exper­tise. Need­less to say, we knew we’d work together pro­fes­sion­ally even­tu­ally, it was sim­ply always a ques­tion of when.

 

As a front-end web devel­oper, I am reg­u­larly work­ing with clients and fel­low free­lancers, to cre­ate a won­der­ful look­ing, well work­ing web­site that fits the client’s needs. With that, I am work­ing in the browser and uti­liz­ing tools and tech­nolo­gies to achieve these goals. When needs are greater than my knowl­edge allows or budget/time restraints are in place, plug-ins are uti­lized to help get the job done in the end. With the pro­lif­er­a­tion of Word­Press as more than a blog­ging util­ity, many use needs have risen, and many smart devel­op­ers have pro­duced the tools to fill those needs. It is with this idea that I write this post.

If you are a Word­Press user, whether as an end user or a web­site designer/developer, what are some areas in your use that you find your­self reg­u­larly need­ing filled? I would love to hear from you with some of your needs that you’d love to have a plug-in solu­tion for. I am inter­ested in expand­ing my knowl­edge and I feel that devel­op­ing some plug-ins would be a won­der­ful way to go about this. How­ever, I don’t want to just re-create, for exam­ple, another Twit­ter Word­Press plug-in. I’d pre­fer to do what I can to help fill a unique need or one that hasn’t been well addressed.

So please, let me know of any ideas you have or needs you’d like filled, and I’ll see what I can do for you. Hope­fully it results in a plug-in for you and oth­ers who have the same need.

 

Here is a list of the Developer/Designer blogs in my RSS list in no par­tic­u­lar order. Feel free to sug­gest more if you want!

 

Edit: It looks like mobile safari doesn’t like vcf files and will throw an error when try­ing to work with them. From what I can tell with some research, the app QRafter, with advanced func­tion­al­ity, can prop­erly han­dle the down­loaded file. You can read more here Down­load vcard on iPhone with Qrafter

Apple, get your shit together with this topic

With the recent job changes from this spring, doc­u­mented here ([link id=‘243’]), I found need for a refreshed resume/portfolio site. I decided that I wanted to cre­ate an expe­ri­ence with the infor­ma­tion pre­sented, and break away from tra­di­tional meth­ods used to show resumes or port­fo­lios. I hope it ends up remain­ing my go-to spot to find out every­thing a com­pany or per­son needs to see if I’d make a good fit on their team or some­one worth col­lab­o­rat­ing with.

 

This post has been stew­ing for just about three weeks now, and I real­ize that if I’m ever going to post it, it needs to be now. Out of respect to those involved, I will not list names or the offi­cial com­pany name. From here on out, the com­pany will be called “dayjob”.