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So tonight on this fine brisk evening in Colorado I decided to play around with some words and put together a mission statement. A mission statement full of nothing or full of everything? Either way it sounds great. Maybe I should print it on a t-shirt!

"I have committed to proactively promote professional web development procedures so that I may progressively customize sustainable information while continuing to dramatically communicate team driven e-business to satisfy my internal and external customers."

Since WordCamp Denver, I can’t stop thinking about WordPress, it’s such a great little but mighty application.

Because of that day, I’m now spending more time digging deep into it’s code base, more then any other projects I’ve looked at or had to deal with, and having fun again! No strike that, I’m having a blast! Maybe because the code is clean or maybe because the application is well thought out – who knows, who cares, it’s a pleasure.

The thing is, I’ve always enjoyed using it as a blogging platform and have recommended it to others, but I’ve never taking the time to "truly" play with the code. In fact, I’ve been using WordPress now for about five years and I just can’t believe it’s taking me this long to figure that this application "rocks."

Anyway, if you haven’t yet discovered the power behind this application now is the time because it’s only going to get better (per the road map that was shared at WordCamp).

With that said, here are a couple books I’m considering picking up. If I get my "hands" on them I’ll post a review of them here on this site.

• Just Released: WordPress Plugin Development: Beginner’s Guide by Vladimir Prelovac
• WordPress Theme Design by Tessa Blakeley Silver

• At church but can’t think of anything but #wordpress and the things I learnt at #wordcampdenver; mind is running! #
• At the park with the kids #
• Another AWESOME day in Colorado! #
• building proposals is an art as well as a science; goal: 2 explain the solutions w/ as few words as possible w/o losing it’s meaning #
• another great morning in colorado, boy do I love living here #
• bummed out that I can’t attend SXSWi this year because of a lack of funds #sxsw #
• heading out the door to tattered cover, gas = $0.50, coffee = $1.50, book $25.00, time to self = priceless #
• urggg! very frustrated w/ Apple OS X FileVault, I can’t turn it off 2 run a backup of my home directory; anybody else experience this? #

Links of interest from the 10th Week of 2009

• Internet Business Mastery blog and podcast
• Freelance Switch
• Freelance Switch Hourly Rate Calculator
• A bit older post but still a goodie, Mac Application Launchers
• Need to modify those iPhone Notes, or use your iPhone as a disk, PhoneView
• A friendly CMS for web designers, LightCMS
• Awesome source code management tool, Springloops
• Urban Camouflage

Links of interest from the 8th Week of 2009

• Just came across the 50 Extremely Useful PHP Tools posted at Smashing Magazine which immediately caught my attention. It lists all the great tools around PHP which makes it more easier and fun to code.
• Another great list: 50 Extremely Useful And Powerful CSS Tools also from Smashing Magazine
• Deploy* is a simple free, open source, web application that quickly creates a simple front-end web project framework with valid XHTML and CSS, with the feature to include a CSS reset and jQuery.
• Attended WordCamp this week
• What’s hot on Twitter, Twitscoop
• BuddyPress coming soon to all WordPress installs allow each island to become a social network
• BluBrry a "podcast community and directory that enables media creators the power to make money, attain detailed audience measurement and host their audio and video"
• You gotta have your Buzzword Bingo

• About to start a new personal project. The hardest part is starting. #
• week #5 – maybe this will be the week I’ll aquire employment within my field. #
• looking forward to attending #wordcampdenver #
• About to have a b’day dinner for my mum #
• Anybody have a pass to iSXSW they can’t use? #sxsw #
• woke up this morning to the beautiful song of many birds — even though it’s way to early for spring I have to admit I really do love it #
• really like the look and feel of http://www.officemax.com/ #
• downloading http://kohanaphp.com/ thought I might give it a whirl #
• looking for colorado cpa referrals that specialize in small internet based businesses, plz @ me #
• heading up to Boulder on Friday the 27th for a 2pm interview anybody want to connect? #boulder #
• anybody have an older version of adobe cs they want to sell? @ me #
• sxsw ‘rs check out http://www.contxts.com/ this should help with exchanging your contact info #sxsw #
• really digging the new safari, very tight! http://www.apple.com/safari/?sr=hotnews #
• I need coffee, the typing fingers and brain is on auto-pilot! #
• finally! took me all week to get to inbox zero! #
• will be heading to boulder this afternoon anybody want to connect? #
• happy that this week is over; tomorrow = #wordcamp #
• Heading out to # denverwordcamp with @seanking w00t #
• just waiting for #denverwordcamp to start, seeing lots of friendly faces and lots of new ones too; 300 ppl expected today #
• i keep forgetting the hash for this event #denverwordcamp #
• doh I need to be typing #wordcampdenver and not #denverwordcamp #
• wp 2.8 = themes browser, widgets upgrade, custom taxonomies (hidden since 2.3), loads faster #wordcampdenver #
• Having lunch with @afhill @chipd @seanking @shpigford at pints pub #
• wordcast talk about podcasting with wordpress is one of the best “how tos” i’ve heard #wordcampdenver #
• Had a great time at #wordcampdenver can’t wait to see the other presos on wordpresstv.com #