Monthly Archives: December 2014

53: End of Year Review

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In this weeks episode Mick and Edd reflect on their busy years. We first discuss how work has wrapped up for the new year, and how subtle design changes result in huge benefits. Following this, we compare our personal experiences with product and agency work - chatting about the different programming design mindsets and work-flows used in each case. This leads on to the well-timed appreciation for the work of Martin Fowler, Uncle Bob and Greg Young - inc. valuable tests, the importance of a name and there not being a single ‘silver bullet’ to solving a problem. Finally, we wrap up with what we both would like to learn this upcoming year and Edd’s experiences building a mega PC for a friend.

MageTalk Episode 17: Kalen Rides a Segway

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  • 1:40 Phil promises not to make any more audio clip errors…
  • 3:18 Drawing for first copy of Grokking Magento Book giveaway. Congrats Tom Robertshaw
  • 10:45 Custom build development time
  • 19:28 40 hour work week
  • 35:21 Call-in question from Rick Buczynski (Compare the differences between agency developer vs merchant developer)
  • 51:25 2nd part of call-in question (What is value of getting certified for Magento 1.x when 2.x is coming out in a year)

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52: The Christmas Episode

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It is two days before Christmas but that will not stop us from recording a new episode. This week we discuss Frasers gambling hot-streak at Ascot, Micks move and how horrible Martinis are. We then move on to how Fraser is getting on in his new job up in London and Micks University presentation on Fuzzy Logic. This leads us on to how ‘unrandom’ humans are, and professional Rock-Paper-Scissors tournaments. Finally, Edd brings up some interesting talks by Greg Young (on EventStore) and Rich Hickey (on software design). Have a great Christmas everyone and thanks for your loyal listenership!

MageTalk Episode 13 – The Dodecahedron Smotherer

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The guys set the record straight on a few things they got wrong, grill newly-hired Magento Evangelist Ben Marks about his role, ask hard questions (where are the forums?) and Ben name-drops with all of the PHP folks he’s getting to know in his newfound role.

  • 9:48 Software release schedules around holidays and the idea of release candidates.
  • 28:45 Kalen reminisces about his early days of working with Magento
  • 29:32 Ben talks about how he got his start in teaching the Magento U courses and the filming of the first video that is still available online.
  • 36:11 How Magento 2 is doing a better job of communicating with the community
  • 38:50 Search in Magento
  • 40:55 Ben talks about what it means being a Developer Evangelist for Magento and how he measures the success of the position
  • 1:01:36 How can the community help Ben
  • 1:03:07 Ben drops some hints about the new forum solution Magento is looking at for replacing the now read-only forums and a possibly timeline for its release.

Corrections for Ep12

  • Colin Mollenhour never submitted code surrounding the improvements in indexing for EE 1.13, but he had exchanged emails with the core team on ideas. Piotr Kaminski clarified that there were already conversations happening internally along these same lines of thinking.
  • Piotr also clarified that none of Kalen’s gloriously beautiful code was used in the responsive email designs for EE 1.14. It all came from Classy Llama. Props to the Llamas.

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Episode 53: Let’s Get This Thing Over With

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Saving Gas

Guest-less and listless, Chris and Ed slouch their way back to their studios. Chris talks about the time he tried to murder a disabled woman with his new luxury sedan, we discuss artisanal PHP-Nuke sites, and how we got our local user groups started. Then It really goes off the rails with a discussion of the awesomeness of Dragon Age: Inquistion, and what happens to games and other services that rely on Internet connectivity.

Correction: It looks like Ultima Online and Phantasy Star Online are still up!

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