Delicious Brain Waves

Web analytics are a fantastic tool for content editors, but a  deeper look into the topic shows they can provide significant insights into UI, UX, information architecture and much more. In this episode of Delicious Brain Waves, we’re joined by special guest Christina Inge, an expert on web analytics, content strategy, and SEO, and the CEO of Thoughtlight, a digital marketing agency and tech consultancy. We discuss how to use analytics to drive our decision making, which analytics to track, and whether or not there are any unimportant metrics. 

Show notes:

* Christina Inge on Twitter

* Mike Davey on Twitter

* Marketing Metrics: Leverage Analytics and Data to Optimize Marketing Strategies

* YouTube - Marketing Analytics with Christina Inge

* Universal Analytics will be going away - Google Help

* Google Analytics 4

* Optimizely Digital Experience Platform

* Christopher Penn’s Almost Timely Newsletter

* Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik

* Digital Analytics Association

* Crawl, Walk, Run: Advancing Analytics Maturity with Google Marketing Platform

Headless WordPress has been steadily gaining in popularity, especially among enterprise-class organizations. But how much do you really know about it?

In this episode of Delicious Brain Waves, we’re joined by special guest Jason Bahl, Principal Engineer at WP Engine and the creator and maintainer of WPGraphQL, to help us understand the current state of headless WordPress and what we might see in the future. 

 

Show notes:

 

* Jason Bahl on Twitter

* Mike Davey on Twitter

* ACF 6.0 Released

* The State of Headless: A Global Research Report

* WPGraphQL

* WPGraphQL on GitHub

* WPGraphQL on Twitter

* WPGraphQL on YouTube

* How Website Performance Affects Conversion Rates

* Site Speed is (Still) Impacting Your Conversion Rate

* Headless WordPress and Content Management Systems

* Getting Started with Headless (Without Losing Your Mind)

* Headless WordPress with Atlas

* Atlas and the Atlas Sandbox

* Local WP: Atlas Blueprints* Let us know your thoughts on Twitter

The tech sector often puts up unique challenges for women in the industry. In this episode of Delicious Brain Waves, Sanjucta Ghose and Sam Munoz discuss their experiences as women in the software industry. 

They highlight the challenges, pros, and cons of careers in development and how to encourage more women to become developers.

Advanced Custom Fields

Making Website Magic Podcast

National Science Foundation Stats: Women With CS Degrees

Delicious Brain Waves: Degrees and Web Development

5 Ways to Fight Gender Bias in the Tech Industry

Making Website Magic: Why You Keep Undercharging as a Web Designer and How to Stop

Women in Business: Why They Under-Charge

Misogyny in WordPress is Real

Women Should Code

Press This Podcast: How Women Can THRIVE With WordPress

Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

Why Imposter Syndrome Hits Women and Women of Colour Harder

Top 3 Advantages of Diversity in Software Development Teams

Research: To Reduce Gender Bias, Anonymize Job Applications

How to Anonymize CVs for Fairer Hiring

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JavaScript is a critical part of modern WordPress, but some backend developers may struggle with “learning JavaScript deeply.”

Ross Wintle and Ahmed Hussein discuss their own journeys, and how they’ve come to enjoy modern JavaScript development. 

WP Engine and Delicious Brains

Delicious Brains announcement

WP Engine announcement

WP Engine questions and answers

Press This podcast interview with Brad Touesnard and Jason Cohen

WP Migrate

WP Migrate

WP Migrate 2.3 Released

JavaScript resources

Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) JavaScript reference

CanIUse.com

JSDoc - TypeScript annotations in comments

Type-safe JavaScript with JSDoc

WesBos JS30

WesBos ES6 Course

Just JavaScript

You Don't Know JS

Alpine.js

Syntax Podcast

JavaScript Geolocation API (MDN)

JavaScript Modules

Electron

With WordCamps set to return to an in-person format for the first time since early 2020, Iain Poulson and Jonathan Bossenger take a look back at their own personal experiences with WordCamps, with a special focus on the first ones they attended.

They share their greatest highlights and offer advice for both first-time WordCamp attendees and the folks who organize these events.

Show Notes:

What’s New in SpinupWP

WordCamp Central

Upcoming WordCamps

What to Expect

Become an Organizer

Transitioning to Virtual: 9 Lessons Learned from WordCamp San Antonio

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In our latest podcast episode, Ahmed, Iain, and Ross discuss the hotly contested topic of whether people entering the web development field need a proper Computer Science (CS) degree.

They talk about the challenges, pros, and cons of having vs. not having a CS degree, what they think of coding Bootcamps, and how they landed their first jobs.

Show notes:

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In this episode, we take a short detour from very strictly developer or business-focused discussions and instead turn our attention to personal task management. Thomas McGee, our Video Producer, joins Jonathan to discuss the ins and outs of their morning productivity routines.

They discuss the details of their individual morning process, how they plan and execute their workday, and why having a routine is essential to be productive. They also share some tips on how to create and refine your own routine and some advice for solo makers and folks who work on distributed teams.

Show notes:

Mac Automater

How Thomas creates his startup .bat file in Windows

Standuply

Things

Todoist

Radar.ist

Bear

Full Focus Planner

Trello

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While many folks think of JavaScript as a “modern” web programming language, it is, in fact, only a year younger than PHP. In this episode of the Delicious Brain Waves podcast, Iain chats with WP Migrate developer Ahmed about the history of JavaScript.

Ahmed takes us through how JavaScript came about, why it was almost universally hated at one point, and how the language has evolved in recent years. Iain and Ahmed also look at the state of JavaScript frameworks in the WordPress developer ecosystem and discuss the team’s experiences working with the new React-powered user interface in WP Migrate 2.0.

Show notes:

jQuery

CommonJS

Node.js

Svelte

Episode 3 - Why We Chose Svelte over React or Vue

Backbone.js

React

WP Migrate 2.0

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In the latest episode of the Delicious Brain Waves podcast, Jonathan Bossenger and Ian Jones share their experiences using Linux operating systems for full-time development.Ian has an extensive history of using Unix and Linux systems but developed primarily in Windows before moving to Apple desktops in 2003. In 2017 he decided to try a Linux laptop instead of getting a new MacBook Pro, and the experience was so great he switched his desktop to Linux in 2020. Jonathan comes from a pure Windows background, stumbled into Linux on the desktop with Ubuntu in 2008, and has used it almost exclusively on both desktop and laptop environments ever since.They discuss their history with Linux operation systems, the reasons why they love developing software on Linux, the pros and cons of using Linux, and share some tips and advice to those considering a change.

Show Notes:

Stack Overflow 2020 Developer Survey - Development Environments and Tools

JetBrains The State of Developer Ecosystem 2020

Ian on Twitter

Jonathan on Twitter

Open positions at Delicious Brains

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In this episode of the Delicious Brain Waves podcast, Brad and Iain chat about the recent Delicious Brains acquisition of Advanced Custom Fields.

Taking a deep dive into the process, they cover everything about the acquisition, from the first discussions with Advanced Custom Fields creator Elliot Condon, how Brad evaluated the product to determine a value, financing options, performing due diligence, when and how to get lawyers involved, all the way up to the final closing and handover. 

If you’re looking at buying or selling a WordPress product business, this episode is an interesting look into the nitty-gritty details of the process, what to look out for, and things to avoid.

Show Notes:

The official announcement

Advanced Custom Fields

Iain on Twitter

Brad on Twitter

Open positions at Delicious Brains

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