Blog
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Why 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. Since then there has been a lot of discussion online about the pros and cons of this event. While I do feel that a…
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The 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.
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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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Introducing Boss Box – a WordPress ready development environment
A modern, easy to configure, WordPress ready Vagrant box, perfect for local development. As a developer, one of the most important pieces of technology I use daily is my chosen virtual server stack. Depending on your operating system of choice, there are a few solid options out there, but since discovering Vagrant I've always preferred…
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WP Hacker Cast – the official launch post.
About a year ago (literally, I got the domain renewal notification two days ago) I came up with a podcast idea. I had just finished reading “Milestones – The Story of WordPress” and I thought how awesome it would be to interview every single one of the core release leads, from Matt all the way…
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WP HackerCast – Episode 3
I’m a little late posting this, mostly due to being very busy with WordCamp, but episode 3 of the WP HackerCast is live. Check it out.
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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.…