Tag: WordPress
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WordPress.com versus WordPress.org
Full disclosure first: I love WordPress.com and I want to acknowledge that I might be a bit biased for two reasons. Firstly, I blog at WordPress.com and secondly, I work for Automattic, the company behind it. I work in support at Automattic and so I get to see first hand the sorts of things users are doing with…
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Auckland WordCamp and “The Smell”
I went to my very first WordCamp yesterday at Auckland’s AUT and it was fabulous. I thoroughly enjoyed the entire day: all the speakers were terrific, the people were incredibly friendly, and I learnt lots. It was a great turn-out with around 130 people all up. I think my talk went reasonably well. The only…
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WordCamp Auckland 2014
I’m giving a talk at Auckland WordCamp later this month. Matt Mullenweg volunteered me for this when he was in Auckland recently. We were talking with the Auckland WordPress group and they expressed interest in having someone talk to them about Jetpack. So Matt said I would do it. To which I replied, “Yes, of…
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My intro video
Part of being a distributed workforce means that I don’t get to see my colleagues face-to-face very often if at all. Something they do at Automattic is to encourage all new employees to create a short intro video. Here’s mine:
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Matt Mullenweg in Auckland!
Matt Mullenweg was in Auckland last night to give a talk to all the local WordPress fans. I went along to get this photo. ——————————–> Ok, so I also went to hear him talk and he was great: inspiring, funny, warm, friendly, and very down to earth. He spoke about the history of WordPress and how it started,…
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I am one very happy Happiness Engineer
I little while ago I had a job interview that I accidentally turned up a day early for. Well, I’ve just been offered the job! I am now a very proud and excited Happiness Engineer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Cloudup, PollDaddy, Jetpack, VaultPress, Gravatar, Akismet and more. Fortunately turning up a day early…
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