Author: Doug

  • Zachary Levi & Bert from Sesame Street, “A Lovely Sunny Day”

    Ben Folds is really wishing he wrote this song. Grab an MP3 version from the Sound cloud page and then go out for a walk.

  • Shahar Varshal, “Hey Oh Brother”

    https://soundcloud.com/shahar-varshal-mashups/hey-oh-brother-avicii-vs-red

  • Fork Puppet(-WP)

    Fork Puppet(-WP)

    My fellow 10upper Eric Mann recently authored a post entitled Just Ship Already in which he encouraged developers to (get this) just ship their code, already! Well, in the interest of doing just that, I’d like to announce a fork of Ryan McCue’s Puppet WordPress module. That’s Nice. Uh, What? Puppet is an awesome systems…

  • Ping!

    Ping!

    tl;dr version: I joined 10up in October, been very busy since. We just released a fancy-dance new plugin named PushUp Notifications. You should get in on it. Long version: I joined 10up last October as a Senior Systems Engineer and have been head-down in systems for some pretty large customers since then. Obviously, blog output…

  • WordCamp St. Louis 2014

    I’m speaking this afternoon at WordCamp St. Louis 2014 about making your whole* life easier with WP-CLI. My slide deck is available right here:

  • 2CELLOS: “Thunderstruck”

    So, SO good.

  • “Box”

    http://vimeo.com/75260457 What a stunner. Just sit back and take in the whole production.

  • MashMike, “Wake Up, Mary!”

    https://soundcloud.com/mashmike/mashmike-wake-up-mary Avicii + CCR + Tina Turner. A stupidly good mashup by MashMike.

  • Who’s On Stage?

    Who. The band on stage! WHO. (I miss Animaniacs.)

  • Rack Stanking: The Perils Of An Inferior System (Stack Ranking)

    I came across an article on Slate this morning bemoaning the “Stack Ranking” employee rating system employed by Microsoft (and apparently pioneered by Jack Welch at GE). I’ve had some experience in companies employing a stack ranking system, or one very close to such a system and so I took to Twitter with a few…