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Twenty Fifteen

Over the last 18 months I worked on three default themes, Twenty Twelve, Twenty Thirteen, and Twenty Fourteen. Each project was a little different from the other, and on each project my role differed too.

Twenty Twelve was initially designed by Drew Strojny, with Lance Willett creating the templates, leading the project and herding volunteers. It wasn’t ready for WordPress 3.4, but was released with 3.5. I joined them in the 3.5 cycle I started helping out with testing and bug fixes.

For Twenty Thirteen, I was the main developer. Joen Asmussen designed the theme, and it was my job to take his mockups and make them work. Lance was again leading the project, reviewing and committing fixes after the theme was initially introduced to Core.

We took a different approach for Twenty Fourteen, where we ported over an existing theme, Further, designed and developed by Takashi Irie. Lance’s role stayed the same, while Takashi took on a more active role in bringing in fixes, and I reverted back in a more supporting role like in Twenty Twelve. Continue reading →

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Joen Asmussen, Konstantin Obenland, Lance Willett

Joen Asmussen, Konstantin Obenland, Lance Willett

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The Twenty Thirteen Team

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Image courtesy of Josh Root.

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As part of Automattic’s Grand Meetup this year, I got to go to the last game of the San Francisco Giants this season. We had early entrance tickets to hang out in one of their lounges and watch warm ups, when I had my tweet featured on the Giants’ scoreboard!

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Featured on the SF Giants Scoreboard

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Automattic Grand Meetup

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Dublin Dr Pepper

I really like Dr Pepper. It is one of the things that reminded me of my exchange student year, after I returned to Germany. My passion for it is shared by Natalie MacLees, Organizer of the SoCal WordPress Meetup and Co-Organizer of this year’s WordCamp Los Angeles.

At the speaker’s dinner for said WordCamp, Natalie surprised me with a six pack of glass-bottled Dr Pepper, a gift that for the lack of knowledge about the uniqueness of the content, I did not appreciate enough at the time.

Dublin Dr. Pepper

Why is it special, you want to know? From Wikipedia: “Dublin Dr Pepper was the popular name for a style of Dr Pepper soft drink made by the Dublin Dr Pepper Bottling Company in Dublin, Texas. Dublin Dr Pepper followed the original recipe, using cane sugar as the sweetener as opposed to newer high-fructose corn syrup. […] On 12 January 2012, it was announced that Dublin Dr. Pepper will no longer be produced, after the Dublin Dr Pepper Bottling Company settled [a] trademark dispute instigated by Dr Pepper Snapple Group”.

Since production of Dublin Dr Pepper stopped, there is no more of the original product in existence. But according to a Dr Pepper Snapple Group press release from January 11, 2012:

[Dr Pepper Snapple Group] will now distribute Dr Pepper sweetened with cane sugar throughout Dublin’s former territory[…]. It’s the same product Dublin sold. […]. The only difference is it will not reference Dublin on the label.

The crate Natalie gave me does have the Dublin reference on the label though, which first threw me off. After a bit more research though, I found out it was produced by the Temple Bottling Company in Temple, TX which is 100 miles southeast of Dublin, TX. The plant supposedly uses the same bottling line, the same formula, and the same Imperial Pure Cane Sugar, letting me hope for the same original taste.

Now that I can better appreciate the gift, let me thank you again Natalie! 🙂

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