My introduction to computer programming was with script languages that worked on the Macintosh platform. I experimented with multimedia programming environments such as Hypercard in the mid 90s. I worked in small-scalle publishing situations and helped photographers when they were in transition to a digital environement. I did some simple work flow automation using Applescript. My first website consisted of some static HTML pages that I uploaded to my Geocities account in 1996. I started working with PHP in 2000, not long after PHP 4 had come out. I have been working with WordPress since 2005. I co-own a small web development firm called TeamLaLaLa. On its blog, I write about business and programming.
James Prochnik writes to us:
I just got a question resolved (my nickname is giantbonsai) due to your great new service. I am very happy that you offer this – it fills a niche, and to be honest, I think you could expand your product line to css/html/java etc. It’s a super idea [...]
I am pleased to note that the last 24 hours were the best so far for our site, at least in terms of prize money, with $160 worth of prize money being offered. I’m also happy to note that over $2,000 total has so far been paid out to our WordPress experts. Over 7 of [...]
We are always glad to hear when WP Questions works out well for one of our customers. I just stumbled across this post on the forums for the WP eCommerce plugin:
pluggyboy: guys, not sure whether this will help anyone as my configuration was slightly different to that described above (using weight rate with no downloadable [...]
Ünsal Korkmaz posted a question about handling Turkish characters. His Turkish characters ( şŞ İı Ğğ Üü Öö çÇ ) did not show up on our site. This was my fault. When I set up the database I unthinkingly accepted the default character set and collation (latin1_swedish_ci) of the server. A better character set, [...]
I was approached with an offer of a 1 month contract in Philadelphia for some WordPress work. I’ve decided to turn it down, so I will post it here. If anyone is interested, contact me and I can put you in touch with the interested parties:
lawrence@krubner.com
They are looking for some rare skill sets. [...]
To be good citizens of the open source communities we belong to, we offer to donate 25% of our profits to developers whenever we get questions marked with the custom tags related to their projects (plugins, themes, software). We previously asked developers what they would like to see in a partnership program. We got some [...]
Over the last 2 months we’ve had a dozen people contact us about licensing the custom software that runs our various question-and-answer websites (WPQuestions, SymfonyExperts and upcoming JavascriptQuestions). We are considering several possible models, but have not yet reached any final decisions.
Right now what we’re considering is a hosted solution, a little bit like [...]
Several people wrote to us and asked for the option to subscribe via email for notifications of new questions. We just added in this feature today. Go to your personal control panel and click the new option, which you can see highlighted in this screenshot:
There are now 3 ways to keep track of new questions [...]
Over the last few weeks we’ve had several talks with plugin and theme developers. The question was originally “What would make WP Questions more useful as a support platform for you?”
2 issues were raised:
Accuracy
Ownership
The first issue has to do with the possibility of stupid, ignorant answers being given. One developer asked us “What if [...]
We just launched a new site: Symfony Experts. The site is identical to WP Questions, except the focus is different. WP Questions was built using the Symfony framework, so this is a technology that we use every day.
In the next few weeks we be launching similar sites focused on MySql and Javascript.
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