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Finding Success in the Briar Patch

Finding Success in the Briar Patch

by Blair Williams · Jun 5, 2012

One of my favorite stories as a kid was “Br'er Rabbit and the Tar Baby” … if you've never read the story, the main character, Br'er Rabbit is threatened by his arch-nemesis, Br'er Fox.

Br'er Fox sets a trap for Br'er Rabbit and captures him. Br'er Fox wonders, out loud what he should do with Br'er Rabbit.

Br'er Rabbit says to his captor that he can do anything he wants to him if he promises not to throw him in the Briar Patch. [Read more…] about Finding Success in the Briar Patch

Filed Under: Business, Philosophy, Success Tagged With: briar patch, Business, difficult, hard, niche, parable, philosophy, skill, Success, technical

WordPress.TV: Pimp Your WordPress Plugin

by Blair Williams · May 21, 2010

WordPress.TV just posted my presentation from OCWordCamp, “Pimp Your WordPress Plugin” … FYI — it's actually quite a bit more technical than it sounds — but if you want to learn some of my techniques for developing & maintaining larger-scale plugins, this is the one for you:

Here are the slides for this presentation: Pimp Your WordPress Plugin

Filed Under: How Tos, Plugins, Tutorials, WordCamp, Wordpress Tagged With: actually, blog software, computing, content management systems, development, mvc, php, php programming language, platform, plugin, plugins, presentation, technical, Wordpress, wordpress plugin, wordpress.tv

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