So, I as a user see the remember me option ONCE, and it's only the first time I check out with stripe, right? Then in theory I go to some other site and it increases conversion on site b because it pre-fills my saved CC info, etc. It seems plausible that change will increase conversion on the second site, but as appears to be the case anecdotally, the change can decrease conversions on the first site. Seems like this could be painful for a site with one-time sales. Could it instead be a dialogue that pops up with clear stripe branding that asks if you want to remember the card for future visits on the web and explains what it is?

We roll our own stripe forms, so this hasn't caused us any issues. Knew that checkout was not something we would use for this reason.

The important thing to see, I think, is that the gains will come not on the first day this rolled out, but over time. One tiny merchant on a single day as the only data point is a sad sample to base decisions on. Particularly for said tiny merchant. Their pick up in sales will not happen immediately, but with time. Removing the "Remember Me" in freakout mode will likely be just shooting themselves in the foot, in a very short term way. But then again, even big companies only worry about the next quarter's financials, and the government so longer invests in infrastructure, so I guess this is the new normal.

I'm not talking about a change in a single day. The change in question happened in late December, so I do have SOME data.

If I lose sales for two years and then EVENTUALLY get a bump, that's two years of network effects and word-of-mouth that I've missed out on.

great marketing campaign.

Cool! Love the ATX Hackerspace here in Austin

you should build something on your own that solves the problem, then open source it, then quit.

Very slick app. Just downloaded, simple and easy to use like mailbox but with way better integrations (oh hai, Exchange server). and I got a free version, nice!

After the D&B signup process, well, I am not surprised.

you would probably need to do something along the lines of creating a sql.diff file that has the difference between production and local database and then ONLY inserts into the production database so you don't overwrite changes that have occurred since you started working locally.

This is something that could be written but really would only be worth it for someone that does a ton of WordPress development...definitely an interesting problem.

We've struggled with this quite a bit at our company (http://thesiteslinger.com). Much of our web development business includes WordPress...We host most of our client sites on WPEngine so the git push feature has made a lot of it easier but keeping your .sql files versioned correctly from live and local development is a pain, to say the least.

I would disagree that everything can be left up to the one click updater, versioning it all is important. That assumes you aren't creating complex functionality on your site, so no updating tables, custom development or anything that changes more than views.

It will be interesting to see if WordPress can continue to improve and grow and get new users. From a growth perspective it seems more and more like wordpress:php as rails:ruby, bringing people to the platform en masse.

I'm a little surprised the author doesn't comment extensively on the availability and use of google docs as a useful and FREE (or fairly cheap) replacement for the office suite. Having been a hardcore enterprise user of MS Office (excel, ppt, access, to a lesser extent word) for the first 5 years of my career, I'm very familiar with the value these software suites play in large organizations. Shared tools make collaboration easier and shared formats make operations across the globe even possible.

Google spreadsheets still a little work to do but excel for Mac is is the same position. So you replace everything MS office can do with a free suite of tools that are a near enough equivalent and what do you get? Just like we saw the personalization of tech in enterprise organizations with hardware (buying and using our own iPhones/iPads and saying screw centralized IT), you will see the same thing happen with software. Add in the collaborative aspects of google drive vs emailing docx files back and forth and you see clear advantages to choosing something other than MS Office.

What happens when that next 3com or IBM sprouts up using google docs and becomes a multinational 100k+ employee organization? Do they switch to MS Office? Maybe, but I doubt it would be the best choice for companies in the future.