What inspired or motivated you to give this talk at WordCamp?
Having to learn WordPress, and seeing how disparate and scattered all the information and tutorials are, pushed me to want to push others to better document their code.
Do you have any advice or words of encouragement for those who are thinking about getting involved in the WordPress community?
If you’re going to do something, do it all the way. There are a myriad of ways to contribute to the community, and you can choose and follow through with any of them. You just have to find that one thing you’re passionate about, and then follow through with it. And in the end, everyone will be better off thanks to your effort.
If you could make one improvement to WordPress today, what would it be?
Cleaner, richer, and better organized documentation. Please. It would make my life so much easier. Even as you get better at programming, even as you get better at figuring out cryptic lines of code, good documentation would save me and all other WordPress developers countless hours of having to dig through the code.
Who do you most admire and why?
A bit of a cop-out, but it would be anyone who cares enough to do something. It doesn’t really even matter what they care about, but just by putting forward some action, they are, in my eyes, admirable. Nothing will ever get done if a person never does anything. Society makes it easier to be apathetic, to just go on with life as it is, go to work, go home, go to sleep, get paid. But there is so much more out there, so much more that can be taken in, and so much more that can be put forth. People who give to the world give me inspiration.
What’s your favorite quote from a book or movie?
“I’ve come to send a signal out into the dark. In the end, it seemed like the only thing worth doing.” – Grant Morrison, Animal Man #26