Category: Speaking (Page 5 of 14)

Posts covering presentations I’ve given, talks I’ve shared, and meetups I’ve attended.

An Interview with iThemes on Self-Employment

November 20, 2015 / Tom

iThemes is a WordPress-centric company that focuses on providing a suite of tools and themes for bloggers.

Some of these tools include things like BackupBuddy, Exchange, and Sync. From their site:

Since 2008, we’ve been creating WordPress plugins, themes and training for freelancers, marketers, entrepreneurs, designers and developers. We want to take the hassle out of running WordPress websites.

At the beginning of 2015, iThemes launched an effort called WProsper. The goal of of the effort is to help others “do well, do better with WordPress and iThemes.”

The Journey of a Presentation

November 4, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

One of the things I got into earlier in my self-employment career was trying to speak at local meet-ups, conferences, and so on.

Sometimes, circumstances make it difficult to accept those engagements (priorities and all :). But I’ve always found different types of people have different styles of presenting.

Live Code Reviews at WordCamp Tampa

August 28, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

At the end of September (September 25th – 27th, to be exact), there are going to be a lot of great people at WordCamp Tampa.

Code Reviews at WordCamp Tampa

As of now, the schedule is still being put together, so I don’t know any more details than what you can find on the website; however, there is one event that I think anyone who is coming. should consider attending: A live code audit.

In short, it’s your code in front of a panel of other people critiquing it in front of all of your peers. Sounds scary, right?

Years ago, I used to think so – but then I realized just how great code reviews can be and I urge anyone who is writing code for a living to have someone else review their work.

The Grumpy Developer Podcast Revisited

August 18, 2015 / Tom

Earlier this year, I was invited to be on the The Grumpy Developer Podcast. It was a lot of fun, I really enjoyed my time on the show, and Mike – the host – and I hit it off.

Recall that the show aims to achieve the following:

If you’re a designer or project manager, you can consider me your friendly developer translator. I’m here to help you bypass the Grumpy Developer Syndrome and achieve a happy transition from design to launch. If you’re a developer…well…you’re welcome. Let’s all celebrate a departure from Happy Designer Land to a world where design-dev-project managers can all get along.

Fast forward a few weeks and I was invited back on to the show for another conversation about a variety of different things all of which were programming related.

An Interview with Pagely on WordPress

July 9, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

Most of the technically-minded folks in WordPress are familiar with Pagely: They provide managed hosting for WordPress-based sites.

In addition to that service, they also publish a blog that highlights a number of different topics – anything from running case studies on WordPress SaaS products to covering the new features they are releasing to their customers.

Over the past few weeks, they’ve been running a series in which they highlight people who are involved in WordPress in some capacity and, as of yesterday, I had the honor to be featured on the blog.