In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Liz Mays about Pressbooks, the WordPress-based publishing platform we now use for all our books. We explain how it cut our book production time dramatically, and what makes it work…
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Rod Martin, who made many of OSTraining’s most popular videos, including a Drupal 8 class with around two million views. He shares the tools, techniques and habits behind great video…
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Mike Anello, a trainer, developer and camp organizer with over a decade in the Drupal community. This is the busy person’s guide to Drupal 8, and Mike catches you up…
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Ray Bogman, who has worked with Magento for ten years. He gives newcomers a full introduction to the platform’s history, current state and future, and explains why 2017 is a…
Almost every community and corporate web site can benefit from a strong calendar solution to expand event awareness and improve collaboration. For Joomla web sites, the obvious and most popular choice is JCal Pro.
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Brian Hogg, who builds and sells WordPress plugins and writes openly about what works. We talk about launching new plugins and building a sustainable business around them. People in this…
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Mike Demo of BoldGrid and Aleksander Kuczek of Perfect Dashboard about whether Wix, Squarespace and Weebly are a real threat to open source, and whether WordPress and its peers should…
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Mendel Kurland, a familiar face at WordCamps who has helped change GoDaddy’s reputation in the WordPress community. He shares his path from an Iowa startup to GoDaddy, and his new…
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Aleksander Kuczek of Perfect Dashboard and Brad Morrison of GoWP, who maintain thousands of WordPress sites. They discuss which plugins break the most often and how to run updates at…
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Andy Miller, who went from ExxonMobil’s first webmaster to founding RocketTheme and helping start Joomla. Now he’s building Grav, a flat-file CMS, and he explains the thinking behind it. People…