Software Engineering Management, WordPress, PHP, Javascript
During my time as an Engineering Manager at Automattic, I worked for the Special Projects team where I oversaw many best in class WordPress website builds for our VIP partners. While the majority of my time was devoted to the building and launching of those sites, every now and then we would run retrospectives on [ ] The post Using AI Tools for Project Retrospectives appeared first on Jeffikus .
Over the years I ve worked on my workflow and personal way of managing tasks, and for the past few years I ve been using my own methodology almost daily. I ve toyed with the idea of turning it into a business/app of some kind, but after literally years of reflection, I ve settled on publishing this post as [ ] The post Six Things appeared first on Jeffikus .
It s been a minute since I last worked on Woo products, but being part of Automattic I still keep track of what Woo is working on. It s really great to see WooCommerce.com offering test sites in a sandboxed environment again! It s such a useful feature, and I think it ll help drive folks to use Woo [ ] The post Storytime: WooThemes Playground appeared first on Jeffikus .
I began my post university working career at a company called White Wall Web. They were a web application development company in Cape Town, South Africa, and at the time they were relatively small with under 20 developers. The owner/managing director Peter Flynn was very involved in the day to day running of the company [ ] The post Kingdom Business appeared first on Jeffikus .
I recently hit the 7 year mark of working for Automattic since they acquired WooThemes/WooCommerce in 2015. It s been a fun ride so far, and I ve experienced a lot of highs and very few lows. Part of this journey was moving from South Africa to the USA this year, and I brought a few sentimental [ ] The post Magnificent Seven appeared first on Jeffikus .
As WordPress pushes forward in the Full Site Editing era, it s inevitable that it becomes even more seen as a no-code or low code tool. And as with every iteration of WordPress core, the community innovates around this and comes up with some new ideas. One of those ideas centers on code generation of Block [ ] The post WordPress and Code Generation appeared first on Jeffikus .
I first delved into the world of programming when my dad upgraded our home PC to a 486 DLC for home, and I had a book called All About Computers by Jean Atelsek from 1993. There s a section on programming in that book that takes you through some games coded in BASIC, and how to [ ] The post The Importance of Concepts appeared first on Jeffikus .
Everyone has people in their life who stand out, who are markers for specific things that have shapes us in our personal lives and in our careers. I ve been thinking about a few of these recently, and I thought I d write up a series of short posts about these people and the specific things they [ ] The post Influential People appeared first on Jeffikus .
Class of 2001 that s when I finished high school. WordPress didn t exist yet, I was about to start my Computer Science degree at UCT, and some major world events had just occurred. I spent the following 5 years studying at UCT, switching from Computer Science to Information Systems, and became proficient in Java, C#, [ ] The post Fifteen Years of WordPress Themes appeared first on Jeffikus .
It s really cool to see how the future of WordPress themes is progressing. I ve been quite blessed to have been working directly on some of the themes shared in the video below. My team at Automattic has done some pretty spectacular work over the past year, as well as the teams working on Gutenberg and [ ] The post Theming Future appeared first on Jeffikus .