In the second Maker Cast chat, I own up to the fact that I need to move onto something new.
Craig and I discuss how to go about selling an existing business, some of the tools I can use to do so and how to plan the next steps of my new start up.
WP HackerCast – Episode 14 – Daniel Bachuber – Humanist Software Development
It’s episode 14 of the WP Hacker Cast and today I’m taking to Daniel Bachhuber. Daniel is an experienced WordPress developer, having worked for companies like Automattic and Human Made. He is also a very prolific contributor to WordPress projects, such as the Rest API and WP CLI, the command line interface for WordPress.
Daniel and I had a great chat about a wide variety of topics, from his experiences leading the WP CLI project, his thoughts on how open source philosophies apply to the world around him, what he has learned from Matt Mullenweg about the key to being successful in business, and the reasons you won’t find him on Twitter.
I hope you enjoy my chat with Daniel Bachhuber.
Show Notes:
Daniel’s Website
Hand Built
rtCamp
WP-CLI
Gutenberg Plugin Compatibility Checker
Nadia Eghbal
Open Source is Debt
Humanist Software Development
Harvest
Iterm2
Things
Indie Hackers
Social Media Suicide
WP HackerCast – Episode 13 – The Maker Cast 1
The WP Hacker Cast returns after a month’s break with a new show format.
In order to try and mix things up a bit, I’m trying out a new show format, to alternate with the original interview format.
What I’m calling ‘The Maker Cast’ will be a series of chats between myself and Craig Hewitt, the founder of Podcast Motor and Castos.
The idea behind The Maker Cast is to delve into the world of start ups and to try and learn the tips, tools and skills needed to successfully start your own business.
I hope you enjoy it.
WP HackerCast – Episode 12 – Travis & Andrew Lima – Experiencing WordCamp
This week I’m talking to not one but two WordPress professionals. Travis and Andrew Lima are employees of Paid Memberships Pro, the most complete membership solution for your WordPress site.
This is my second attempt to interview Travis and Andrew, the first went horribly wrong when I forgot to hit the record button. So we thought we’d try again.
While I have known Travis and Andrew personally for a few years now, what I didn’t know was that we all experienced WordCamp Cape Town together for the first time. As I messed up the original recording I thought it might be interesting for us all to delve into our WordCamp experience and how that first WordCamp paved the way for where we are today.
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WP HackerCast – Episode 11 – Alain Schlesser – Improving WordPress
This week I’m talking to a very special guest, Alain Schlesser. Alain the first European guest on the podcast and I’ve been itching to chat to him since I started this.
Since becoming a WordPress Consultant, Alain has made his mark on the WordPress project. He has been involved in contributing to WordPress core and is currently the maintainer for WP-CLI, the command line interface for WordPress. He has spoken at a variety of WordCamps, including WordCamp Europe and WordCamp US.
Alain is a fascinating chap to talk to and we delved into all variety of topics from his first year as a freelance consultant, the advantages of being actively involved in a community and how he’s working to improve the core of WordPress. I especially enjoyed discussing the differences between US and European based developers.
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WP HackerCast – Episode 10 – Hugh Lashbrooke – The WordPress Community
This week’s podcast is a little late and a lot unedited. Unfortunately last week I was dealing with some things which affected my ability to properly review, edit and prepare the podcast. Rather than post it days late, I’ve posted it here in it’s more or less unedited format, so I hope you enjoy it.
This week I’m chatting to Hugh Lashbrooke, and Automattic employee and full time sponsored member of the WordPress Community team. While Hugh comes from a strong developer background, his love of the community and working with people made him choose a different career path, one which ultimately lead to us crossing paths and me switching to WordPress, for which I am eternally grateful. I always enjoy chatting to Hugh about community relevant topics and I hope you enjoy my interview with him.
There are currently no show notes, but I hope to update them soon.
WP HackerCast – Episode 9 – Simon Dowdles – Managing Multiple Things
Hi there and welcome to episode 9 of the WP Hacker Cast. Today I’m joined by Simon Dowdles, a fellow WordPress developer who I have known for about a year now as we work together on Seriously Simple Podcasting and Castos. Simon has a wealth of work, development, WordPress, Joomla, all kinds of experience, having worked for various agencies in and around Cape Town as well as his own freelance and side projects. I had a great chat with Simon and we spoke about everything, from development to how to manage your time better, to just little tips and tricks that freelancers can use and learn to make their businesses run smoother. I hope you enjoy my chat today with Simon Dowdles.
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WP HackerCast – Episode 8 – Deborah Butler – Code Saloon
Happy New year and welcome to the first WP Hacker Cast of 2018. Hopefully you enjoyed Episode 7, even though it was just my rambling voice. Fear not though, as we are back to the regular format.
Before I introduce my next guest I’d like to take this opportunity to perform the obligatory request for feedback. If you like this, or any of the other WP Hacker Casts, please take a minute to either leave a rating or review on iTunes, comment on this podcast itself, or use the feedback form on the website to send my your comments.
Without any further ado, let’s get onto this week’s episode. For the last recording of 2017 I was joined by Deborah Butler, a front end developer who specializes in WordPress. We dig deep into various topics, ranging from how Deborah went from sales to development to teaching, up to and including her thoughts on being a gay woman in the tech space.
I hope you enjoy this episode.
Show Notes:
WP Hacker Cast – Episode 7 – 2017 Review & 2018 Goals
This week is a much shorter podcast, as I review my resolutions for 2017 and look ahead for the new year.
I also talk about a subject quite close to my heart, that of customer service.
Sorry for the podcast length, but things will be back to normal in 2018.
Happy Holidays.
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WP HackerCast – Episode 6 – Craig Hewitt – Productised services
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Welcome to episode 6 of the WP Hacker Cast. My guest today is Craig Hewitt. Craig is the founder of Podcast Motor, a Podcast Editing And Production service, the owner of the Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin for WordPress and the founder of the Castos Podcast hosting platform. He is also the co host of the Rogue Startups podcast, where he and his co host discuss the ups and downs of being single founders.
While Craig does not come from a technical background, in his own words, he learns enough to be dangerous. I’ve had the privilege to work with Craig since the end of 2016 when he acquired the Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin. During that time we’ve worked hard to improve the plugin as well as build and launched the Castos service and I’d like to think we’ve both learned a lot from each other.
This interview took a slightly different path than usual as we discussed all manner of topics, from his experiences adapting to living a new life in France with his family, some of the history behind the purchase of Seriously Simple Podcasting and some of the lessons we’ve both learned supporting the free plugin and launching the premium hosting add on.
I hope you enjoy my chat with Craig Hewitt.
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