In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with longtime Drupal contributor Randy Fay about burnout, cycling from northern Canada to Argentina, and coming back to open source. He also introduces DDEV-Local and makes the case for container-based local…
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Robby McCullough, co-founder of Beaver Builder, about building one of the best-loved WordPress page builders. We discuss the company’s relaxed, irreverent culture and how it has shaped the product and…
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Josh Strebel, who founded Pagely, the first managed WordPress host. He introduces NorthStack, a managed AWS platform, and we discuss whether WordPress development is spreading out to Node, Laravel and…
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Daniel Bachhuber, who has played a part in Gutenberg, the REST API, WP-CLI and many well-known plugins. He explains how he ended up in such central roles, how he juggles…
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Andy McIlwain, who runs the WordPress content at The GoDaddy Garage. He shares the tools and strategies behind a large company blog, and how GoDaddy is preparing a huge user…
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Dusty Davidson, co-founder and CEO of Flywheel, a WordPress host based in Omaha, Nebraska. We talk about building a fast-growing company far from Silicon Valley, and the colorful culture that…
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Dwayne McDaniel, a developer evangelist at Pantheon who attends 30 to 40 WordCamps and DrupalCamps a year. He talks about improv, karaoke and vegan food, and his real passion: bringing…
I met Eddie Tabush back in 2010 at CMS Expo, a semi-legendary event with people from across the open source world. It was the start of a partnership that dominated our work during the 2010’s. We worked together on OSTraining and Joomlashack, which…
Over at Joomlashack, we’ve hit on a business model that is working well. Over the last couple of years, we’ve adopted 6 extensions: JCal Pro, jInbound, Shack Forms, Shack Toolbox, Shack Open Graph, and Tabs and Sliders. A few weeks ago, we announced the arrival of…
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Alex Kuczek, who started a web agency in Poland, then got his SaaS company, Perfect Dashboard, into the Berkeley SkyDeck accelerator. We compare European and American work cultures and talk…