Web Apps, Design, Development & Innovation in Cape Town

One of the perks of speaking at conferences like WordCamp Cape Town is being able to listen to other speakers share their knowledge and stories. One of the best presentations I had the privilege to listen too was David Perel’s “Post Boxes to Inboxes” story of how they pivoted from a bespoke cold fusion CMS/web [...]

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As promised the WordCamp Cape Town 2011 talk I did entitled SEO Fundamentalism. For notes and the SEO 101 slides see the previous post WordPress SEO Fundamentals

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During WordCamp Cape Town 2011 this blog went through a bit of hell when a plugin or 2 no longer wanted to play nicely with the rest of them. Thanks to weekly WordPress backups with the BackWPup plugin it was easily restored and brought back to life and is now faster than ever before. For [...]

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WordCamp Cape Town Venue Change Event details: WordCamp Venue: Atlantic Imbizo WordCamp Location in Cape Town: Clock Tower Centre V&A Waterfront Map to WordCamp Cape Town: http://www.atlanticimbizo.co.za/map.php Registration starts @ 8am Back in 2008 when founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, was in Cape Town for WordCamp my wwworld changed like it never has before. So [...]

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I am very excited to introduce our first female developer in this series of posts on WordPress developers. Meet Lisa Casson, an upcoming WordPress theme developer, graphic designer and a web designer. This Johannesburg based lady is a self taught CSS fundi now, after learning how to build WP themes by using only tutorials available [...]

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Marc Perel, co-owner of Obox Design has been developing themes for WordPress since March 2009 having been a developer for roughly six years in total. Apart from PHP, this developer uses Coldfusion, Javascript. He also uses Markdown code as required by Posterous and Tumblr. Looking back at all the developers I’ve already featured, this is [...]

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I’d like to introduce you to a very hard to get an interview person Foxinni, Malan Joubert (birth name) a WordPress developer of themes and plugins, and from Cape Town. Now before I get in to the whole introduction, recruiters please note that this dev is already “taken” by the company he works for, WooThemes, [...]

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This week’s WordPress developer, is Gerhard Potgieter (@diekloon) who listens to what people want, taking the frustrations that they’re experiencing and then developing solutions for them. Gerhard codes in a laid back environment, sipping on a cup of strong coffee with music from some Bellville rock bands blaring through his earphones. The passion for web [...]

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This week’s featured WordPress Wednesday developer is Christopher Mills.  He started developing using PHP and MySQL in 1997 when he decided to build the platform for his blog; a place where he could share his ideas.  Later on he converted to WordPress which is his content management system of choice.  In later years his interest for coding developed [...]

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