Kevinjohn Gallagher

As a “failed developer” one of the wonderful geeky things I’ve never experienced is a proper code review by my peers. At #wpretreat the kind folks at Human Made, Kimb and Jonny Allbut looked at some of my WordPress plug-ins, and when they eventually stopped laughing, said a few nice things.

Though apparently using your name as a namespace is all sorts of wrong, even though it’s called NAMEspace ;)   Who knew ??

• They seem like a good idea

• Begging for participants is usually involved

• They require a level of trust

• We all have Friends who claim to have had them
  

• you have to set the right mood

• Eye contact is generally frowned upon

• Just because you finished quickly,
  doesn’t mean the job is done
  

• You sometimes wish you had taken the blue pill

• If you don’t plan to handle the “output”,
  it’ll spawn more “work” down the line

• Where possible, keep it simple

And finally…

• Until WordCampUK, I hadn’t had either !!