Tom McFarlin, co-founder of 8BIT and creator of WP Social Icons, on plugin development:
You can plan and test as much as you want but nothing yields greater feedback than getting your work into the wild. Thankfully, the web is a lean environment – you can get a support request from someone, update the code, test, and deploy all within a reasonable amount of time.
tom is the real deal.
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