Category Archives: Freelance

Harvest Reports WordPress Plugin

When freelancing I use the Harvest application to manage all of my time tracking. It has made invoicing painless, and while I got it thinking I was over-charging my clients, it turns out then I was not charging them enough! Anyway, after being listed as a WordPress consultant by Automattic I naturally had more WordPress contracts. I then wanted to solve a business need by allowing my clients to view their impending charges inside the familiar WordPress administration interface. This was impossible until recently when Harvest published their full API. I now have the ability, through REST, (read more...)

Summary of Recent Projects

I have been fortunate to complete a few projects of late. They both consisted of ports of design concepts to the WordPress platform. Both sides needed a powerful, semantic, web-based publishing system; and WordPress fulfilled all of their desires. The Art of Capping The Art of Capping is a satirical blog that uses comics for their blogging medium. A few of the requirements specific to this project were: A rating system for posts. A “Youtube-like” effect for giving URLs to comics for embedding externally. Customized title generation through PNG. Optimized layout for maximum ad-revenue potential. The webmaster of the website had the following to (read more...)