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Working with Wordpress and Git for me has been a challenge. Ideally I want to keep just my plugins and theme in version control and keep all the Wordpress files (that I would never edit) seperate. You can accomplish this manually but how would this work if you are using Docker for local development? Docker.. actually makes this easy and quite elegant. With Docker you are able to leverage the Wordpress container and just have your theme and plugins in version control....

I recently wrote about the work my team did on http://webwewant.mozilla.org/. The blog post was published on the mozilla webdev blog: https://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/2014/04/28/celebrating-the-web-we-want/

I wrote about my team’s experience using kanban & Kanbanery here: Kanban & Web Productions: Lessons Learned Go read it!

For most of my professional career, from 1999-2007 I worked at large corporations (Conde Nast, John Wiley & Sons) and had almost no experience with either startups or small companies. There are huge differences in these work environments and for me, the most troubling was not knowing which problems were normal and which were signs of systemic problems that could kill the company. While working at one small startup I reached out to a VC friend with the following question:...

I recently switched my blog from Wordpress to Octopress. Below are some thoughts/points I collected during this process. Summary I generally like Octopress, and for me there are big advantages to using a static site generator over Wordpress (better security, no mysql, faster). However there are some issues (mostly minor) that came about as I began to really use it. The Technology Stack Octopress is a “framework” in the sense that it combines various technologies into a static site generator....