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With our sponsor WP Ninjas soon to be releasing Ninja Forms 3.0 we wanted to share this NinjaForms preview video. Check out what you can expect in the upcoming release of Ninja Forms 3.0.
Today we welcome Drew Jaynes to the show. Drew recently led the launch of WordPress 4.2, and we’re excited to get his insights into that process.
Before we get into the show, we want to take a moment honor the memory of Alex King, who we recently lost after a battle with cancer. Pippin’s fondest memory was a dinner they shared together a few years ago, and was struck at how humble he was, despite his experience. Drew shares this sentiment, and his memory is from a panel discussion at WordCamp a few years ago in which Alex was the moderator. Brad remembers meeting Alex at Pressnomics, and remembers how genuine and caring he was about everyone’s individual contributions to WordPress. In the past weeks there have been several very good articles remembering Alex. We particularly liked:
Drew Jaynes is a Platform Engineer at 10up, giving him the sole responsibility of managing all things WordPress core and community within the company. This includes revamping and continuing to build out the Developer Portal.
Drew just completed the successful launch of WordPress 4.2. Making the transition from a contributor to a release to being Release Lead means being more of a project manager than digging into the details of the code. In fact, Drew just passed 1,000 commits to WP core.
WP 4.2 development started in January and was released in April of this year. The major updates in this release include:
Beyond the nuts and bolts of Drew’s experience in this most recent release, we dig into his experience as a core contributor within WordPress. These include:
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By Apply FiltersWith our sponsor WP Ninjas soon to be releasing Ninja Forms 3.0 we wanted to share this NinjaForms preview video. Check out what you can expect in the upcoming release of Ninja Forms 3.0.
Today we welcome Drew Jaynes to the show. Drew recently led the launch of WordPress 4.2, and we’re excited to get his insights into that process.
Before we get into the show, we want to take a moment honor the memory of Alex King, who we recently lost after a battle with cancer. Pippin’s fondest memory was a dinner they shared together a few years ago, and was struck at how humble he was, despite his experience. Drew shares this sentiment, and his memory is from a panel discussion at WordCamp a few years ago in which Alex was the moderator. Brad remembers meeting Alex at Pressnomics, and remembers how genuine and caring he was about everyone’s individual contributions to WordPress. In the past weeks there have been several very good articles remembering Alex. We particularly liked:
Drew Jaynes is a Platform Engineer at 10up, giving him the sole responsibility of managing all things WordPress core and community within the company. This includes revamping and continuing to build out the Developer Portal.
Drew just completed the successful launch of WordPress 4.2. Making the transition from a contributor to a release to being Release Lead means being more of a project manager than digging into the details of the code. In fact, Drew just passed 1,000 commits to WP core.
WP 4.2 development started in January and was released in April of this year. The major updates in this release include:
Beyond the nuts and bolts of Drew’s experience in this most recent release, we dig into his experience as a core contributor within WordPress. These include: