Folks, I've two amazing news to share! Last weekend, WordCamp US was taking place at the music city, Nashville, TN, USA. Less did I...
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2017Engineers: Perfection Is a Curse!
Do away with perfection. It’s a curse. Innovation is messy. Be messy, launch soon, do more, do NOT hibernate.Yeah, it’s all good advice until unless you start a side project yourself. Engineer you are, you get back to what you do, you start solving problems. Even those, that are only in your head. That’s pretty much what I have been [...]
Ahmad Awais
🎉 I Got Verified on Twitter! | @MrAhmadAwais
I am a social animal and that my friend is an understatement. I love to talk, hang out, and be social. Though, I am a tech geek (full stack web dev) — point being I am not an introvert. I have been using Facebook for I think even before I found WordPress. That was a decade ago. And before that, there was MySpace — not forgetting about [...]
Ahmad Awais
🎖 Became a Moderator at StackOverflow!
Yes, you read it right. My new role at StackOverflow is Human Exception Handler. I just became a moderator at StackOverflow — a site that almost every developer loves to use and receive a great amount of help from. Membership# While I am a member of StackOverflow network for five years, five months, it was only one and a half years ago, [...]
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🦊 2016 Year in Review: WordPress, Business, & the Big NEWS!
2016 has been a phenomenal year! I wrote about the business, stability, My Open Source Contributions, the products I built, interviews, fitness, the big news, and my future plans.
Ahmad Awais
Are You Selling to HUMANS or Robots?
Today, I am going to talk about marketing, but before I do that, I need to make a case for who I am and why you should listen to what I have to say. That is, it's not a post from a developer who's sharing a bunch of tips on how to do it. I used to be a marketer. Wore many hats throughout my career and marketing was one of them.
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Getting Featured on WordPress.tv’s Homepage
John reached out to me, we had a fun little chat about global aspect of the WordPress community, giving back to WordPress as a Core Contributor, and about AWP Group with the $100K WP giveaway that I ran last month.
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This Part of My Life Is Called … WordPress
This is a story about how I fell in love with WordPress (and web) even after being misguided towards the career-path of Electrical Engineering and that of a jack of all trades, but WordPress community was where I found my true self.
Ahmad Awais
A Stupid-simple WP Developer Fitness Challenge!
To situate a better future, I am challenging YOU to run/jog/walk 60 minutes daily for next 90 days with me. I'm in, are you? Let's do it!
Ahmad Awais
🐼 My Commitment to WordPress and Epic Moments of 2015
I wrote about my year 2015 as a WordPress developer sharing my thoughts, resolutions, goals, friends, and all the Epic Moments. Happy New Year!
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What Every Beginner Is Doing Wrong as a Web Developer
Being a beginner at web development in 2015 may not be the best thing. Confusion, decision-making, marketers, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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