WordCamp Birmingham is Jan14th and 15th!

WordCamp Birmingham is right around the corner! If you live in the south you have to come to this! Beginner or Dev, theres stuff for you at WordCamp Birmingham. We’re still looking for sponsors and please get the word out! Check out all the incredible speakers. Some are coming across the country just to talk to our community here and other are local legends! If that isn’t convincing enough, take a look at the ever-updating session page. There’s something for everyone! #WPYall

UI Design for Themes & Plugins: Presentation at WordCamp Vegas with Chelsea Otakan

Chelsea Otakan and I presented at WordCamp Vegas on UI Design for Themes & Plugins.

User interface design is both a science and an art. The developers and designers who volunteer to work on WordPress put a lot of thought into the approach. We’ll discuss how the WordPress UI can influence your theme and plugin UI designs.

Terminal Refresh

Because I do a lot of work with WordPress Core, I find myself using terminal all the time for svn management and various other things. In order to make this mundane terminal window not make me depressed, I skinned it to make it fit my style better and make me happy when I use it. Here it is:

Bumbling around in WordPress. My pretty terminal theme makes it all better!

So, If you want to use this style for your terminal download it here.

Responsive Design Inspiration: the Boston Globe

The BostonGlobe.com recently launched a new responsive site! its beautiful thanks to the collaboration of the filament group and the globe.

Below is an awesome video they made about the design and development process and includes some technical talk about the use of media queries as well as starting big then simplifying rather than the reverse process of progressive enhancement. Interesting video for sure!

Tokyo Wrap Up

Thank you to everyone who came to my talk at Jelly Jelly Cafe in Tokyo! I had the best time. It was great meeting everyone. Special thanks to Naoko for setting up the talk, Sho for hosting the talk in Jelly Jelly Cafe, and Toru for his awesome translating skills. More thanks to everyone else who came and helped in any way. I love Japan and it meant a lot to me to meet everyone. Below is the Ustream video from the talk :)


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addition 12.17.12: The video is now on youtube!