MageTalk Episode 26 – Mistake Driven Development (w/ David Manners)

Phillip's out - so we turn to David Manners, host of MageEngage - to help fill in! Kalen and David give a rundown of MageUnconf and various other topics.

Show Notes

  • 4:35 Magento Unconference
  • 12:02 Mental Health Discussion
  • 24:09 Best/Funniest Mistakes
  • 28:05 Continued Mental Health Discussion
  • 32:49 Other talks
  • 48:38 MageHero posts

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MageTalk Episode 25 – “I’m Fat and Ugly and I Like Stupid Stuff”

The guys hate on popup modals, discuss space elevators, and have the worst Lightning Round ever.

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The guys hate on popup modals, discuss space elevators, and have the worst Lightning Round ever.

  • 06:10 Bait and Switch
  • 09:15 PayPal Affiliate Hijacking Extensions
  • 13:00 Ecommerce Hall Of Shame – mottandbow.com
  • 17:27 When should you not use Magento?
  • 26:05 MageMail Update
  • 31:40 Frictionless Ecommerce
  • 44:29 Launchpad
  • 47:42 Lightning Round
  • Do not install this extension
  • Do you plan to promote podcast in other streams?
  • Favorite Chocolate?
  • 54:52 MageHero
  • 56:45 Accessiblity
  • 59:56 Linify.com

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MageTalk Episode 24 – “Would you like a Butter Mint?”

The guys give dating advice and introduce a new segment - the "eCommerce Hall of Shame"

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The guys give dating advice and introduce a new segment – the “eCommerce Hall of Shame”

  • 02:48 Investing in stocks
  • 06:35 MageMail Update
  • 10:43 Ecommerce Hall Of Shame
  • 18:34 Magento based MMORPG
  • 21:15 Magento Joke of the Week
  • 22:20 Dating Advice for Magento Developers
  • 27:25 MageStackDay Update
  • 31:43 Magento Imagine News
  • 36:47 Contact Form Shoutouts
  • 47:05 Lightning Round
    • Rick Buczynski – Secret internally built modules
    • Annoying developer routines you can’t automate
    • David Alexander – Do you run everything through Magento cron?
    • MageEngage – Height, weight, shoe size?

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MageTalk Episode 23 – Mah-Hay En-Gah-Hay

The guys talk about the new kid on the block: "MageEngage"

Show Notes

The guys talk about the new kid on the block: “MageEngage”

  • 01:19 Phil Winkle, LLC – Coming Soon
  • 03:00 MageMail update
  • 09:00 MageEngage
  • 14:03 One Size Does Not Fit All
  • 30:33 MageHero Updates / Community News
  • 43:29 Magento Security Patch Release SUPEE-5344
  • 45:30 Lightning Round
    • First Extension Built
    • How do you setup a Magento project
    • How long does it take to get Phil’s hair done
    • What is the #1 site running Magento
  • 55:42 Pre-Imagine Hackathon
  • #MageTalkSponsorship

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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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