Monthly Archives: February 2012

Khalil Gibran

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Khalil Gibran

For those who don’t know Khalil Gibran is a pretty famous poet from my dad’s home country of Lebanon. He is the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu. This quote is one of my favorites.

Stack Overflow Search Tips

http://stackoverflow.com/search

This is pretty neat. It doesn’t matter if you have all the best info in the world if people can’t find it. Maybe the WordPress.com forums & support docs could use something like this. Maybe not something so technical, just something to help people get the most out of their search results.

Look at the email you get if you like you own post on WordPress.com, awesome. Hat trick to MT for pointing it out.

My school has spring break in a few weeks so I’m sure I will need something to do so I just purchased a new theme design that I’m going to make into a free WordPress theme. Its a niche theme, displaying recipes, so I’m not sure how many people would use it but at least it will give me some good practice.

Full size previews:

Home page
Single Recipe View

If you wish to converse with medefine your terms”.

Voltaire

I heard this quote today in class and I thinks it applies nicely to helping people understand WordPress. Word choice is very important when helping others and lately I’ve been trying harder to make sure that my word choice is not doing more harm than good.

Related posts I’ve come across recently:

Avoiding Easy & Writing Beginner Level Tutorials