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Two upcoming app templates
At roughly a week into my September “sprint,” the contents of the next update are becoming clearer, so I thought I’d share some details. First, there will be a very lightweight CRM application, which I seem to be calling LitelyCRM. It’s absolutely aimed at providing a base to build on, not at providing the full…
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Onboarding
I’m banging away on what I guess you could call the second sprint of PeakZebra blocks (except that it’s just me, so it’s a pretty thin scrum), but it’s hard to work on applications like CRM (built from blocks) without thinking about onboarding. Onboarding is an enormous opportunity for WordPress, just because so many (including…
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Quite the laundry list
As mentioned in previous blogs, the arrival of the WCUS conference was a self-imposed deadline for me to actually launch PeakZebra as a set of app-building blocks, even if it was a soft launch. While I did meet the minimal requirements for the goal I’d set, it’s also fair to say that it turned out…
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Soft Release Minus One
My original vision fro PZ Blocks was that they would be relatively low cost and that they would require minimal interaction with PeakZebra once you’d downloaded. You know, if you’re not charging a lot, you simply can’t afford to spend a lot of time tweaking things for individual customers. My thought was that you’d get…
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Deadline almost, five days out
I’ve been working on PZ blocks for a good long while now, but sometime early in the summer I realized I needed a deadline. Or, to be perfectly honest, it was my therapist who realized I needed a deadline. Once the suggestion was put to me, it seemed obvious that the deadline had to be…
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Wordcamp Phoenix Slides
Here are the slides from my presentation at WCPHX, Using Blocks to Build Applications. Note that most of the presentation was a live demo. I’ve included the backup slides I made in case the demo went south– a series of screen shots that captures much of what I showed.