In today’s episode, we talk all about Microcopy, what it is, why it’s important and how to manage it in a headless CMS, with my guest Melissa Burfitt, a Senior Content Designer at Nationwide Building Society. ******************************* Questions Asked ******************************* Tell us about your background. What kind of writing have you …

In this episode I’ll be chatting all about testing web apps and APIs, with my guest Diego Aguilar, a software engineer focused on cloud development with Contentful, Javascript and AWS and other headless technologies. ******************************* Questions Asked ******************************* Tell us about your background. How did you get into h…

In today’s episode, I chat with Vic PHan, a DevOps engineer, all about DevOps, what it is and why you should know more about it. We cover the methodologies of DevOps, what tools you should use and how companies can adopt a DevOps mentality. ******************************* Questions Asked ******************************* Tell us about your background…

In this episode we continue our conversation (started in Episode 27) all about advanced CSS techniques with my guest Mark Ryba, a senior developer at SmartBug Media with over 6 years of front end development experience in the marketing space. ******************************* Questions Asked ******************************* How does CSS work with Java…

In this episode, I chat all about CSS with my guest Mark Ryba, a senior developer at SmartBug Media who has over 6 years of front end development experience in the marketing space. In his current role he develops middleware microservices, websites and web applications. He’s also very passionate about using advanced CSS techniques to create great us…

In this episode, I have a conversation with my guest Cyril Garcia, an incoming iOS Engineer at Pandora Media, all about iOS development. Learn what you need to know to get into iOS development, the difference between UIKIt and SwiftUI and much more! ******************************* Questions Asked ******************************* Tell us about your b…

In today’s episode, we focus on the Atomic Design System, what it is, how to use it and why it’s important for building scalable web apps with my guest Juan Manuel Flucha, the Chief Technology Officer and one of the co-founders of Reign, a software design and development company . ******************************* Questions Asked ********************…

In today’s episode, I chat with Kent So, a product owner for site search at Rogers Wireless, one of Canada’s largest telco, all about Search, Contentful and Content Modeling. ******************************* Questions Asked ******************************* Tell us about your background. How did you get involved with Contentful? Define search for us. …

In this episode, our conversation is focused on TypeScript, how it differs from JavaScript and how you can get started today coding it with my guest Jeffrey Parrish, a web applications developer who’s been creating web apps in JavaScript, NodeJS and TypeScript since 2006. ******************************* Questions Asked *****************************…

In today’s episode, we talk all about image formats, DAM integrations and how to manipulate images using the Contentful Image API with my guest Allen White, an interdisciplinary designer and developer who works at Contentful as a solutions engineer. ******************************* Questions Asked ******************************* Tell us about your b…

In today’s episode, I had a great conversation with Senior Web Developer at Ecobee, Diego LaManno, all about Localization, eCommerce Integration and Contentful. ******************************* Questions Asked ******************************* Tell us about your background as a software developer. What is your tech stack at Ecobee? Where is the conten…

In this episode, I’m chatting (for the 3rd time as my guest) with Teemu Tammela, all about Postman, a collaboration platform for API development. Teemu is a Certified Contentful Professional, Contentful Partner and software developer from Finland. ******************************* Questions Asked ******************************* Tell us about your bac…

In this episode, we have a great conversation all about the language of design with my guest Kim Calderone, a Product Designer at ServiceTitan with a background in User Experience, Design Research and Graphic Design. ******************************* Questions Asked ******************************* Tell us about your background. Please define design f…

In this episode I chat all about JAMstack with my guest Brian Rinaldi, a developer advocate at Stackbit who focuses on helping developers build Jamstack apps. ******************************* Questions Asked ******************************* Tell us about your background. How did you become a developer? How did you get into JAMStack? Since you worked …

Today I’ll be chatting all about Deno with my guest Andres Pirela, a 19 year old who’s working for a large company as a full stack software engineer using C#, Java, Typescript and Javascript. He’s been programming since the age of 9! Learn what Deno is all about, it’s great features, and it’s drawbacks! ******************************* Questions Ask…

In this episode I’ll be chatting all about Javascript with my guest Daniel Cortes, a self taught developer who’s been working on web projects for the last 8 years. Daniel is currently a lead front end developer at Albert, an ed tech company. ******************************* Questions Asked ******************************* Tell us about your backgroun…

In this episode, I have a great conversation about chatbots, artificial intelligence, machine learning and much more with my guest Jordi Torras, the founder of Inbenta, who focuses on AI and Natural Language Processing for chatbots and search engines. ******************************* Questions Asked ******************************* Tell us about your…

In this episode, I chat with Gerard Klijs, a microservices developer who contributes to open source GraphQL projects, all about GraphQL, including subscriptions, queries and mutations. ******************************* Questions Asked ******************************* Tell us about your background. Explain what a microservice is. Can microservices be h…

In this episode, we chat all about migrating from Drupal to Contentful with my guest Teemu Tammela, a Certified Contentful Professional, Contentful Partner and software developer. ******************************* Questions Asked ******************************* Tell us about your background Why did you decide to migrate to Contentful from Drupal? Wha…

In this episode, I have a great converstaion all about design systems with my guest Matt Felten, a design technologist currently working at the intersection of design and code tools for ServiceTitan. ******************************* Questions Asked ******************************* Tell us about your design background. Have you coded before or mostly …

In this episode, I have a great conversation with Chris Towler, a nano tech engineer and front end developer, all about Rich Text Fields, HTML, JSON and Markdown and how and when to use them in Contentful. ******************************* Questions Asked ******************************* Tell us about your background. What is nano scale technology? Wh…

In this episode, I chat all about migrating from Wordpress into Contentful with my guest Ben Greenberg, a former Lyft and AirBnB engineer who migrated his own website, GlowyStuff.com, from Wordpress into Contentful. ******************************* Questions Asked ******************************* Tell us about your background. What kind of projects d…

In this episode, my guest Diego Aguilar, a software engineer focused on Cloud development, AWS and JAMstack, and I chat all about how to build scalable Contentful applications using three specific architectures: Cache, Event Driven and Batch-Sync. ******************************* Questions Asked ******************************* Tell us about your bac…

In today’s episode, I have a great conversation all about Vue.JS with my guest Robert Mion, a designer, writer, coder and Vue JS expert who teaches web development in virtual 1 on 1 sessions. ******************************* Questions Asked ******************************* Tell us about your background. What attracted you to front end development ins…

In this episode, I have a conversation with Johan Li, a Senior Developer at Collegial, all about React JS and how developers can use it to speed up their front end development. ******************************* Questions Asked ******************************* Tell us about your background. How did you get into React? What is React? What is the differe…

In this episode, Marcelo Lewin, a Certified Contentful Professional and Senior Content Architect, has a conversation all about Content Modeling with Raul Salido, a Solution Delivery Manager based in San Francisco at Contentful. Raul and Marcelo get into the details of content modeling including design and development, structured vs unstructured con…

Today I’m having a conversation with Roman Hood, a self taught developer with over 10 years of experience developing web applications. Roman and I chat all about Node.JS and how to get started developing applications with it. ******************************* Questions Asked ******************************* Tell us about your background. Why NodeJS? W…

My special guest is Nikan Shahidi, the founder of Webstacks, a digital agency who specializes in various web technologies including Contentful and Gatsby.js. In this episode, Nikan and Marcelo chat all about Static Site Generators (SSGs) and more specifically, dig into the details of Gatsby.js ******************************* Questions Asked *******…

In this episode, I have a conversation with Teemu Tammela, a software developer, Contentful Certified Professional and creator and co-host DJ of AuralCandy.net Premium House Music Podcast. Our topic today is all about creating a website that runs on Contentful and Ruby. The following questions were asked: Tell us about yourself. Tell us about your …

In this episode, I chat with Matthew Foyle, a Senior Solutions Engineer at Algolia, which offers a Search API, all about APIs, decoupling your apps by using APIs and how to scale with REST and GraphQL. We also touch upon the Contentful APIs and how they can be used for decoupling your front end from your back end. The following questions were asked…

In this episode, I speak with Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Contentful's Developer Evangelist, all about what developers and creators need to know to create web experiences and apps with Contentful. We touch upon many topics including the Contentful's API, how to create Content Models, what resources are available online to help you along your journey an…