Whether you are a seasoned veteran of the industry or an aspiring product manager, there are several skills that you should work on honing throughout your career. These skills help you make decisions, manage your team, and ensure that the product you manage continues along its established roadmap. While there are definitely hard skills that are required - technical knowledge and training - there…
If you're here, I have a sneaky suspicion that you're asking the very same question that I asked above - what is a Product Manager? Maybe you're a company that's expanding their workforce and need someone to manage a product. Or maybe you're an engineer or developer who's looking for the next logical step in your career path. Funny enough, I asked that same…
The measure of success in creating content can be different for everyone. Most dream of being monetized and creating content full time. Others seek to entertain, and some just want to get their information out to the masses. But regardless of what 'endpoint' you are striving for, there's one thing these goals all have in common: They aren't actually goals. "Now hold on a…
Including files in a PHP environment can be tricky for new developers. There are no less than four ways to include a file: include, include_once, require, and require_once. Moreso, there’s very subtle differences in the reasons behind using each one. Throw in WordPress (which has its own specific flavor of include tag – get_template_part) and it can be downright confusing. Using the wrong one,…
Maybe it’s because I’m a website developer, but I get asked occasionally if having a website is still one of those NECESSARY things you have to have. The further we get with web technologies and platforms, however, the more I could possibly maybe see the need for something that’s not a website. People stream games on Twitch. Creators make videos to publish on YouTube. Streamers and…
I've been doing a lot more WooCommerce work as of late. And with good reason - WooCommerce (as of the end of 2016) powers nearly 42% of all eCommerce stores on the internet. One of the biggest requests I have when working with WooCommerce is how to integrate a third party vendor into a checkout screen. An example would be a gift card merchant.…
If you’re like me, you use custom post types a LOT when you’re doing projects (or on your own site, if I’ve done it for you!). There’s a lot of value in having a type of content that’s unrestrained and flexible. Sometimes, however, you want to be able to search a particular post type, and leave out all of the other results (pages, blog…
It's a known fact that using streamed footage to create YouTube videos is a fantastic way to repurpose content. However, for a lot of streamers, their music of choice on stream leaves them with a problem: YouTube’s (seemingly random) stance on copyright. Using popular songs is guaranteed to get you a strike, but it’s difficult to know or discern if a lesser-known song is…
I've been doing more video content than ever as of late, and working with video files is one of my favorite pastimes. Between streaming and editing video for YouTube, being able to manipulate video files - especially large ones - is becoming more and more of a necessity. A few days ago, I had an ambitious project: a 12-hour YouTube and Twitch stream. While…
A note, before we begin: a lot of people, when they hear the name of the 'killers' player group, don't like to actually be called 'Killers'. There is a negative connotation the name brings. Take it from someone who plays video games - the name is very apt. There are groups of people who, whether it's for achievement or their own enjoyment, love the…