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bradt.ca

Founder & CEO @ SpinupWP

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2025 1

  1. No Clicks, No Content: The Unsustainable Future of AI Search

2021 1

  1. How to Make a PDF Look Scanned Using ImageMagick and Automator in macOS

2016 1

  1. 2015 Year in Review

2015 1

  1. 2014 Year in Review

2014 10

  1. Developer Founders Should Start with Hiring a Developer
  2. I’ll give you a job and help you launch your first product
  3. We used Gmail for product support for our first year and it was great
  4. I Sold WP App Store
  5. Stop commenting your code just to say you did
  6. A Better Writing Process for Perfectionists
  7. Ignoring errors from third party WordPress plugins while developing in debug mode
  8. Go Hack Yourself
  9. My Journey To Managing My Own WordPress Server
  10. I Hired My Mom

2013 10

  1. In Defense of Universal Product Support
  2. Why WP App Store Failed
  3. Keeping an Open Mind
  4. Pippin And I Have Started A Podcast
  5. Turn Up Happiness By Turning Down Notifications
  6. The Reason Why I Am Loving Android Over The iPhone
  7. Redesigned
  8. Stop Avoiding Regular Expressions Damn It
  9. Why Firefox DevTools?
  10. The Best Time to Buy is Now

2012 8

  1. Extending WP_Query
  2. Commercial WordPress Plugins
  3. PressNomics Conference Recap
  4. Custom Table for WordPress Custom Fields
  5. WordPress Best Practices: Global functions vs. classes
  6. Dandelion: Git Deployment over FTP
  7. Founder Inner Conflict: Engineer vs. Entrepreneur
  8. Podcamp Halifax 2012: WordPress Workshop

2011 9

  1. Image Crop Position in WordPress
  2. AIM Conference Workshop Notes: Getting Started with WordPress
  3. What’s involved in building a web site?
  4. Lessons learned from the Jigoshop – WooCommerce fiasco
  5. Stop complaining about $4 web hosting
  6. Installing 1Password Extension in a Google Chrome Site Specific Browser (SSB)
  7. Paying invoices in a postal strike: PayPal eCheck
  8. Building a web site: Think content first
  9. PodCampHalifax 2011 Review

2010 6

  1. Transfer from Paypal to a US Dollar Account at a Canadian Bank
  2. Getting Comfortable with Peak Oil
  3. WTF is dial-up grandpa?
  4. Encrypting credit card information with OpenSSL
  5. Building WordPressFreelancer.com: Fun with the latest, greatest web dev tech
  6. What does it cost to build a web site?

2009 10

  1. Firefox Error Message: “Well, this is embarrassing.”
  2. Fix WordPress “Missed schedule” error on Media Temple (dv) / Plesk
  3. Developing SharURL: Lessons learned developing a new startup
  4. Toxic Subcultures
  5. Micro templates in PHP
  6. Photoshop Tip: Hiding all other layers
  7. MacBook as a battery pack for iPod/iPhone
  8. Adding Google Tasks to your Gmail sidebar
  9. Redesigned and reorganized
  10. Twitter Importer for WordPress

2008 18

  1. Preventing IE6 bugs
  2. Font linking, type foundries, and DRM
  3. Migrating from Typo3 to WordPress
  4. Advice for young web developers
  5. Introducing Vote Swap Canada for Facebook
  6. Speaking at BarCampVancouver2008
  7. Using select boxes to convey choice
  8. Dumb Idea: Let’s write a new templating language
  9. WordPress as a CMS: Posts as content elements
  10. iPhone hardware could be expensive for existing Rogers customers
  11. “Professional” Work Experience
  12. Redesigning zenutech.com
  13. Firefox 3: Smoother, quicker, better
  14. HTML Validator Debugger
  15. WDN08 kicks off
  16. Attending Web Directions North 2008
  17. Working from home, not for me
  18. WordPress 2.5 “Zeldman” Coming Soon

2007 20

  1. Link BRAD for President of the Internet 2008
  2. Safari Plugins for the Firefox Convert
  3. Redesigned and more
  4. Web Directions North 2008
  5. Blog Action Day – The Environment
  6. Farewell ActiveState, Hello Zenutech
  7. Monetization of Facebook
  8. Power to the people
  9. Progressive Degradation
  10. Chuck Norris Action Jeans
  11. Becoming a registered professional
  12. Facebook introducing the common user to fresh new web concepts
  13. Meet ted. My new best friend.
  14. Introducing LinkedIn hResume for WordPress
  15. Why do I blog?
  16. Web Directions North Wrapup
  17. Web Directions North: Day 2
  18. Web Directions North: Day 1
  19. Web Directions North: Day 0
  20. Attending Web Directions North

2006 22

  1. Merry Christmas Rory Fans!
  2. Vote for Rory Helper
  3. A letter to those opposed to automatic voting
  4. Vote for Rory. He would vote for you.
  5. Automatic Updates for WordPress
  6. +1 Mac User
  7. Redesigned and refocused on usability
  8. DivX Stage6 kicks online video a$$
  9. Upgrading a MySQL database when you don’t know the schema changes
  10. O’Reilly Open Source Convention
  11. A phone! A phone! My kingdom for a phone!
  12. Busy, Busy, Busy
  13. Web Usability: Down with select boxes
  14. My New Digital Camera: Canon SD450
  15. All Grown Up – ActiveState Software Inc.
  16. Windsurfing, carpentry, software, and helicopters at 43things.com
  17. RWYN – A user-friendly alternative to drop down menus
  18. New Design, New WordPress, First Ajax, First Scriptaculous
  19. The best trackball lubricant
  20. Pasting Multiline URLs into Firefox
  21. Chuck Mania: The Chuck Norris phenomenon that is rocking the world
  22. Upgraded to WordPress 2

2005 35

  1. Creative can go to hell
  2. Refocus on functionality and usability
  3. Performance problems with ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
  4. TreeView 2.0 Released
  5. Learning Ajax from the bottom up
  6. w.bloggar – a simple and free desktop blog publisher for Windows
  7. Adsense gives me the boot
  8. Joining ActiveState in a couple of weeks
  9. 10 tips to better manage your e-mail
  10. “Permanent” Photoshop Jockey
  11. Your ear deserves some Arcade Fire
  12. Writing IE-only CSS in a stylesheet for all browsers
  13. The all-new futureshop.ca web site launched
  14. Hey kids, we’re eatin’ tonight
  15. The All-New Bighouse Blog
  16. New Zenutech Web Site and Logo
  17. Exams are Over, All Marks are In, School is Done Forever
  18. Hey Ma, Get Off the Dang Roof!
  19. Flash Audio Player Sample
  20. Currently Listening To and a Free Flash Audio Player
  21. Putting a Stop to Comment SPAM
  22. HOWTO Enable Extra Mouse Buttons in Suse 9.2
  23. Luc Sirois Caught in the Act
  24. Senior Report Draft Complete
  25. Zenutech Download Manager (ZDM) Pro Released
  26. Changing like the Season
  27. Who is that Drug Addict Bum?
  28. Online Movie Rentals: Lame
  29. Upgraded to WordPress 1.5
  30. FrederictonWebHosting.com and Fredericton CyberSocial
  31. A Book Fit for the Throne
  32. Upgraded Zenutech to Multiple Currencies
  33. My Last 4 Months at UNB and in Fredericton
  34. HOWTO Add Custom Pages to Your WordPress Installation
  35. Feeling Better and Writting New Software

2004 15

  1. All Grades are In and I Passed Algorithms
  2. Movie Industry Deserves What’s Coming
  3. Microsoft First to Converge Blogs and Instant Messenging
  4. Blogging’s Eventual Convergence with Instant Messaging
  5. Thesis Topic Chosen
  6. Bojan’s Facelift and New Backend
  7. Jon Stewart Tangles with CNN’s Crossfire
  8. Firefox’s new built-in RSS Aggregator
  9. Installed Wireless Networking Card
  10. Laptop Received and Setup with Linux
  11. I bought a “new” laptop
  12. So I Finally Joined the Mob
  13. Another Satisfied Customer
  14. Looking for Linux Automated Backup Program
  15. WordPress is great software!