Category: Experiences
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Digital 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.
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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 email to all members and parents informing them of the news, and then made that…
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Codeable reviews – the good, the bad and the ugly.
Codeable reviews, are they real and how happy are Codeable clients really? If you have been following this blog you’ll know that I was accepted as a Codeable expert back in September of 2016. Since then I’ve completed 70 tasks through Codeable with an average rating of 5/5. You can even read some of the…
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Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about dealing with Codeable.
If you have been following my blog you will know that I was accepted as a Codeable Expert in late 2015. I’ve since spent a fair amount of time espousing the advantages of working with Codeable. Now, one of my Codeable colleagues, Robin Scott from Silicon Dales has written what is probably the most extensive…
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Taking back ownership of the word ‘freelancer’
Based on some prompting by Hugh I applied as a speaker at PHPSouthAfrica this year. Apparently they still don’t know how little I actually know as they accepted my talk submission 😉 I’ll be talking just after afternoon tea about a topic that has been on my mind since 2010, that of the common perception…
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So, you want to work from home?
Tonight I’m speaking at the WordPress Cape Town Meetup about the pros and cons of working from home and what you can do to create your perfect work from home space. Here are the slides from that talk.
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2017 24 Hour Roll-a-thon fund raiser
This coming weekend I will be taking part in the 24 hour roll-a-thon at Gracie Jiu Jitu Cape Town, raising funds for cancer sufferers/survivors and a local hospice. If I’m honest though, the main reason I am doing this is my jiu jitsu buddy, Juan Poerstamper. Juan has been dealing with Cancer since around 2012.…
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Gutenberg day 8 – Contributing to Core
I’m attempting my first shot at contributing to WordPress core with ticket that was opened 8 years ago! I feel like it’s small enough that I can get something done by the time the next release rolls around but useful enough that it will make peoples lives easier. Feel free to follow the ticket to…
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Gutenberg day 7 – New things
Today I'm especially excited to blog as I have a little news to share. The first episode of my new podcast has officially been published. WP Hacker Cast is my way of talking to and learning from all the great WordPress developers I know and communicate with. I've got some great interviews coming up, but…
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Gutenberg day 4 – New things
Today was a my first day in my new office space. Since becoming fully self employed at the beginning of 2016 I've been working mostly from home on a day to day basis. This has led to a few frustrating moments, although based on what I've seen I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in this.…
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Gutenberg day 3 – Blogging every day is hard!
Who knew? I often come up with ideas and jump into them without thinking. This has been both a blessing and curse over the past 40 years of my life. This idea to blog every day for September using Gutenberg was probably just as mad, as by the time I get to the end of…
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Gutenberg – Day 2
This is probably going to be the shortest post I've ever written. I have nothing to say but I promised I would write a blog post per day for September using Gutenberg. This is that post for today. So here is a photo of myself, my wife Pamela and my son Ethan from about 3…