Life in a Startup

Category Archives: Personal

Choosing a WordPress Theme You’ll Love!

Continuing from my previous post, I thought I would tell you about the process I took to select a theme, the requirements that it had to meet, which themes I decided on, and which ones made the cut. During the summer of 2009, I started freelancing for various friends, family and small businesses. Because my [...]

Why I Moved from Rails to WordPress Development

A few years ago, I made a big life altering decision to move back from Ruby on Rails development to WordPress development. The first real programming language I learned was PHP. I started with WordPress back in 2005 but shortly after that IĀ abandonedĀ it for Ruby on Rails. It was popular and not a lot of [...]

Startups, WordPress, and Life on Mars?

It may come to a shock to some readers here that I am no longer going to be posting about some things on this blog. I’ve taken on a role with Headway Themes that has me blogging more both on the official Headway blog and now over at Headway Hub. Because of this, I’ve decided [...]

First Month Freelancing

I have been working from home for 38 days. A lot of things have happened in this time. I started it all by heading to Kansas to work with Grant and Clay on Headway Themes 3.0 and got a lot done! The team is very excited to get version 3 out the door. You can [...]

Hard At Work and No Play!

This week has flown by! It’s already Friday of my first week out here at the Headway World Headquarters, and we’ve made tons of progress! We’ve pushed out a survey to the community, an important bug fix release (which included several security fixes as well as big hitting features the community loves). We’re also working [...]