Solspace Podcast

In this podcast we talk about how to say no to work that does not suit you; how to say yes to the right types of clients and generally how to avoid self-imposed misery.

Aker used to work at EllisLab. Now he works all over the place. He's reached mastery of his craft and he has a few useful things to say about how you should approach your coding practice. Listen to me ask him knuckle-headed questions about MVC, test-driven development, Laravel, ExpressionEngine ®©, Django, et al.

Listen to Ryan Irelan and I discuss some of the finer points of the importance of location in business, performance for high traffic clients, mobile development, and unforced errors.

The building trades are so much more evolved, in a business sense, than web development. We think we're so original and smart and innovative and need to learn nothing from those long-established crafts that have so much in common with our own. Join me as I explore this terrain. I think you might enjoy it and emerge as humbled as I did.

On this podcast, Kenny Meyers and I speak about his work at Adobe, Facebook, and his opinions on the state of the ExpressionEngine community as well as what it means to be a happy developer.

Kyle Cotter of Cotter Interactive and I talk about business in this podcast. Since he's so new to the business of owning a web design and development firm I ask him how he's getting started, how he's growing his client list, how he's getting new business, where he's getting help, and more.

In this podcast, we discuss the Peers Conference which is geared toward web pros who may be expanding their toolkit as well as their professional lives.

Brad Parscale and I talk at length in this podcast about his acquisition of EECI, the ExpressionEngine ® conference. Listen as he schools me on staffing, business strategy, finding ways to make more money, and most interestingly, avoiding hardcore software development work as a way to avoid losing money. We talk about the importance of location as it pertains to business strategy and growth opportunities. We talk about what motivates us to go to work in the morning. We talk about what DevDemon add-ons are and what they are not. We talk about collecting money from deadbeats, recurring revenue and…

In this podcast, Jae Barclay and I talk about the nature of accident and risk and how these guide and shape a company and its approach to sales and business development. As a veteran of several design agencies, large and small, having worked on small to enterprise accounts, having sold and then regained his soul a few times, Jae shares invaluable insights into the nature of our work.

In the second in a series of conversations with leaders in the ExpressionEngine community, I talk with Erik Reagan of Focus Lab, LLC of Savannah Georgia.