MageTalk Episode 22 – “How Did I Even Begin to Thunk This?”

The guys drop fat beats while issuing knowledge bombs in the new "Lightning Round" segment

Show Notes

The guys drop fat beats while issuing knowledge bombs in the new “Lightning Round” segment

  • 4:30 Magento News
  • 8:25 Sites on Magento
  • 11:49 Thanks Phillip
  • 18:29 Boston Marathon / Brent Peterson
  • 20:02 Weight loss discussion
  • 22:17 Lighting Round
    • Tom Robertshaw “this is awesome”
    • Deployment strategies
    • Magento Upgrades
    • Javascript patterns in Magento (Kris Brown)
    • Checklists
    • MageMail update
    • Extensions

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MageTalk Episode 21 – Take the 405 to Muggle Town (w/ Sander Mangel)

The guys interview Sander Mangel while "mangle"-ing his name. Muggles are mentioned.

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The guys interview Sander Mangel while “mangle”-ing his name. Muggles are mentioned.

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MageTalk Episode 20 – Super German

The guys tackle the tough topic of a potential sale or IPO of eBay Enterprise as well as review a bunch of new SaaS products for your ecommerce stores.

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The guys tackle the tough topic of a potential sale or IPO of eBay Enterprise as well as review a bunch of new SaaS products for your ecommerce stores.

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MageTalk Episode 19 – Magento 2 RoundTable (w/ Fabrizio Branca, Colin Mollenhour)

Show Notes

A live, in-person roundtable live in Austin, TX in the month of January 2015. This took place during the Magento 2 Developer Beta kickoff at the Austin Magneto campus. The guys review what we know about Magento 2 so far and how much is left to accomplish.

  • 5:15 History of modman
  • 16:07 Fabrizio’s composer workflow
  • 25:16 Magento 2 developer forum in Austin, TX
  • 30:09 Opinions on the Magento2 developer beta
    • 31:10 Interception defined by Colin
    • 37:18 Dependency injection
    • 41:00 Code generation
    • 49:45 Soft dependencies
    • 51:25 Extension conflicts
    • 1:05:30 The group’s wish lists for M2

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MageTalk Episode 18 – I Got Plight for Days

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MageTalk Episode 17: Kalen Rides a Segway

Show Notes

  • 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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MageTalk Episode 13 – The Dodecahedron Smotherer

Show Notes

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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MageTalk Episode 15 – The MageTalk Drinking Game

Show Notes

  • 5:52 Phil and Kalen clear the air on what is going on with the elusive Episode 13
  • 9:18 Phil talks about some weird experiences with eCommerce that occurred over his vacation
  • 13:40 Hosting Magento in the cloud
  • 14:58 Phil and Kalen discuss some of the infrastructure of the site that was crushed by the Today Show appearance
  • 22:15 The Kalen + Phil origin story
  • 27:03 Magento licensing discussion
  • 32:06 Kalen and Phil introduce listener feedback
  • 34:38 The MageTalk Drinking game – @pronto2000
  • 36:03 Kimberely Thomas controversy
  • 39:44 Inside MageMail
  • 55:18 Sweet Tooth interview [Kalen Intro]
  • 56:29 Sweet Tooth interview
  • 56:54 What is Sweet Tooth (hint: they are not a candy shop)
  • 59:00 Expanding into other platforms / Moving to SaaS
  • 1:04:06 Magento vs. Shopify partner programs
  • 1:12:42 Magento Connect vs Shopify App Store
  • 1:26:25 Revenue share per platform
  • 1:28:20 Content marketing
  • 1:29:20 Kalen used to work for Sweet Tooth
  • 1:32:54 What makes Sweet Tooth a great place to work at
  • 1:34:06 Sweet Tooth is hiring
  • 1:35:12 The loyalty industry

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MageTalk Episode 14 – Kalen Gets a New Bike

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  • 1:45 Kalen talks about buying a new bike after his old one gets stolen out of his backyard
  • 6:50 The guys discuss Phil’s pronunciation nuances and Kalen’s obsession over constantly correcting him
  • 9:10 The guys discuss the controversy around California 6
  • 12:10 Kalen gives an update on MageMail
  • 16:07 Discussions around new hires at Clean and Something Digital
  • 22:49 What Phillip looks for in a potential hire
  • 33:16 Bootcamp programs for new developers
  • 35:32 Phillip talks about apprenticeships (or the lack thereof) in the industry
  • 37:44 Sponsor – Sonassi
  • 41:05 Extension of the week: Catalin SEO
  • 48:07 Code quality checking tools
  • 50:50 Kalen’s updated twitter bio
  • 51:55 Phillip lists some of his “dumb” ideas
  • 54:20 New MageMail feature – Recommendation engine based on purchase history

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