Are you doing what you want to be doing?
I knew today was going to be a hard day. This morning I made the official announcement that one of my passion projects, a Gracie Jiu Jitsu club I opened in 2014, would be closing down. I sent out an...
View ArticleDigital Marketing Workshop with Mashup Marketing
This morning I gave a short talk on the importance of having a website in 2018 at a Digital Marketing Workshop hosted by Suhaifa from Mashup Marketing. Here are the slides from that talk.
View ArticleThe benefits of contributing to open source – PHP Cape Town meetup May 2018
A lighting talk I gave about my experiences contributing to the WordPress community.
View ArticleWhy I will be moving my private source code repositories away from GitHub
In case you’ve been living under a rock, it was announced on Monday that Microsoft as acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion. For various reasons, this has upset open source developers around the world....
View ArticleUpgrading the Psyrig
About 8 years ago I built my first “proper” gaming computer, which for various reasons I nicknamed Psyrig. It wasn’t the first gaming computer that I owned, but it was the first time I carefully...
View ArticleThe importance of WordPress website optimisation with Justin Frydman
Build it. Theme it. Watch it fail. Or not. If you know how to optimize. Few things are as frustrating as a website slower than molasses going uphill. Even fewer people stick around to see whether the...
View ArticleSocial Media Sabbatical
I’ve been thinking a lot about my use of the internet and it’s associated tools and apps lately. I’ve never been the biggest fan of social media, but since roughly 2015 I’ve found myself getting drawn...
View ArticleOn Ubuntu 18.04, Installing MySQL Does Not Set the Root Password.
One of the things I love about using Ubuntu as my primary operating system is that I can have quickly set up a ‘bare metal’ LAMP development environment. While I unusually run my client websites inside...
View ArticleWordCamp Johannesburg 2018 – Workshop prep
On Thursday the 25th of October 2018 I will be presenting a workshop titled “Turning your WordPress plugin into a SaaS”, where I will be sharing some insight into connecting a WordPress plugin to a...
View ArticleWordCamp Johannesburg 2018 – Workshop Resources
I learned a valuable lesson yesterday, if your workshop prep requires a lot of involved setup, you might want to reconsider your workshop. Anyway, for those who want to try and replicate the workshop...
View ArticleSlides from my talk at @wordcampjoburg #WCJHB
The slides from my freelancing talk at WordCamp Johannesburg
View ArticleThis is why you want to become a Codeable Expert Developer
Is the Codeable Expert Developer certificate worth the weight of the digital paper it’s printed on? In 2016 I certified as a Codeable Expert Developer. I’d already spent a number of years working with...
View ArticleCompleting the beast – the dream of a lifetime come true.
I stumbled across Car Masters: Rust to Riches on Netflix this past week. As a bit of a petrol head I’ve always enjoyed a good car restoration show and I found the ‘upgrade and trade’ business model...
View ArticleIt’s just software! WP Builds chats to Matt Mullenweg about Gutenberg.
My friend Nathan over at the WP Builds podcast had the opportunity with chat with Matt Mullenweg about the pending WordPress 5.0 release and Gutenberg. Worth a listen if you are worried about the 5.0...
View ArticleWordCamp Cape Town 2018 is over, now what?
Last weekend marked the beginning of the end of my journey as lead organiser of WordCamp Cape Town. Over the course of the past two years I’ve worked with an amazing team of local volunteer organisers...
View ArticleThe evolution of a work space
It’s amazing how stories mutate. What started as a simple ‘this is my setup’ post, then turned into a ‘what a day in my life looks like’. This morning I woke up and realised it might be more...
View ArticleNew focus in 2019.
Usually, towards the end of a year, I start looking back at the year that has been, and looking forward to the year ahead, planning my new goals and resolutions. This year, however, I have one very...
View ArticleWhy I’m not building any new Divi plugins, or adding features to any existing...
If you’re reading this because you found me through the various Divi Facebook communities, you probably know that I am/used to be a Divi plugin developer. You may have already purchased one of my...
View ArticleAre you an experienced freelance, full stack developer, who loves building...
Codeable needs people like you! Do you have a special relationship with the WordPress Codex, dream about coding standards and are able to build your own custom plugins from scratch? Do you work well...
View Article11 steps to getting the most out of your freelance developers
A handy guide for clients working with freelance developers so nobody gets hurt… Working with freelancers can be, for some, the equivalent of playing with a loaded gun. It can work out, but there are...
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