Should I use book summarizing services?

I was recently recommended a book-summarizing subscription service called Blinkist. They advertise to have summarized versions of over 6,500 non-fiction books, each available to listen to or to read.
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Top 10 Wolfram Alpha queries for a developer

How I use Wolfram Alpha, a computational engine that can provide expert-level knowledge-based answers to questions, to help with everyday work.
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Staging Sites on WordPress.com

WordPress.com users have been missing the staging sites feature for years. I’m excited that it changed this month!
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How to use Warden/Docker for WordPress development

Check how to use Warden CLI tool to orchestrate Docker-based environments for local WordPress development.
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Starting and stopping brew services using BitBar plugin

I was looking for a UI solution to easily start and stop homebrew services. Check out what I found – a handy app with ready to use plugins.
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Crazy Magento 2 core patches

Last year I took over a maintenance of the Magento 2 Commerce site. Check how I needed to deal with already applied core patches.
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Magento 2: add CMS Page programmatically

I’m starting series of short blog posts to share solutions for common Magento 2 problems. In first one
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How I started career thanks to Ultima Online

However not by getting paid for playing games.
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Extension developers, test your extensions

This post isn’t about advanced testing techniques like a Test Driven Development, an unit testing or a functional testing. It’s just about spending some time to USE an extension you wrote to make sure it works in different cases.
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Meet Magento 2014 Poland remarks

It’s been almost two months since I got back from the Meet Magento Poland 2014 conference. See my random thoughts I have gathered after the conference.
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How to prepare Magento 2 beta package for offline use

Let’s see how to prepare Magento 2 beta package for offline use and how to compress sample data for the new platform.
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How to easily dump Magento database with n98-magerun

Let’s see how to dump a Magento database easily with a n98-magerun tool.
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Get a free Meet Magento PL 2014 ticket!

It’s only 9 days left to a Meet Magento PL 2014 conference. Haven’t got your ticket yet? I have one free ticket to give away!
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Confession: I haven’t made any purchase using mobile yet

I haven’t bought anything real using mobile devices yet and it’s time to change that.
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Fix Apache broken after OS X Yosemite update

I could call it OS X tradition, Apple again broke an Apache2 installation with latest OS X Yosemite upgrade. Let’s see how I fixed that and brought my local Apache2, PHP5 and MySQL development environment back.
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