Eric Binnion – Page 73 – Eric's blog on family, WordPress, software, and other interests.

We had Hero’s 7th birthday party at the ice rink in Kay Yeager Coliseum. It was perhaps a bit ambitious for his age group considering most of the kids ended up just running around in their shoes… But, all seemed to have fun.

In the interest of not over sharing, I will simply share this one picture of Sara, Hero, and myself on the ice.

Nov 23, 2015

Automattic Open-Sourced the New WordPress.com Today!

So we asked ourselves a big question. What would we build if we were starting from scratch today, knowing all we�ve learned over the past 13 years of building WordPress? At the beginning of last year, we decided to start experimenting and see.

Today we�re announcing something brand new, a new approach to WordPress, and open sourcing the code behind it. The project, codenamed Calypso, is the culmination of more than 20 months of work by dozens of the most talented engineers and designers I�ve had the pleasure of working with (127 contributors with over 26,000 commits!).

Source: Dance to Calypso | Matt Mullenweg

Today,�Automattic open-sourced the codebase that runs WordPress.com. This new codebase is entirely API driven and includes technologies such as Node.js and React.

With my background being in developing WordPress themes for an agency, this past year has been one hell of a roller coaster ride as I’ve learned to work with this new stack. And while there were some stressful times as I retooled, I’m super excited for what I and we have been able to do

For more background on why we decided to rebuild WordPress.com, see Matt’s post titled Dance to Calypso.

For some insight into how this project was approached, see The Story Behind the New WordPress.com

Nov 23, 2015

Hero and I caught the wind ensemble concert while at Fantasy of Lights.

Nov 23, 2015

Hero watching the Mr Scrooge display at Fantasy of Lights.

Nov 23, 2015

Helicopter Rides in Orlando

In July, my family took a vacation to Orlando so that we could go to Universal Studios.

One evening, on the way back from Universal, we noticed a couple of helipads where we could affordably�take a helicopter ride.

Now, 4 months later, I’ve finally taken the pictures off of CD and can now share ?

Nov 22, 2015

In the Boys and Girls club float for the City Lights festival.

Nov 21, 2015

Always smiles for pictures, even when discussing terms of his grounding. ?

Nov 18, 2015

We borrowed yaya’s photoshoot props for a quick picture.

Nov 17, 2015

Hero showing off his picture outfit. #getshitdone

Nov 17, 2015

Dallas Cowboys vs. Eagles Game – 2015

Yesterday, I got to go to the Cowboys vs. Eagles game. The lounge passes were pretty great because we were super close to the teams.

Nov 9, 2015

Hacking The Front-End, by Alex Sexton

I found this to be an entertaining ~30 minute video over front-end web security. While I’d heard of XSS and CSRF, I was not aware of a few of the hacks, especially those that include CSS.