Headless { Creator Podcast }
35 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -Interviews with content creators, developers and other professionals who use a headless CMS for omni-channel content delivery. New episodes every Thursday.
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E31 | A Conversation about Microcopy | Melissa Burfitt
January 11, 2021 20:13 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBIn 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 done in the past? Define Microcopy. What are design patterns? What are design patterns based on? What are some examples of microcopy beyo...
E30 | A Conversation about Testing Web Apps and APIs | Diego Aguilar
January 11, 2021 18:14 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MBIn 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 headless technologies? How is the market in Mexico for headless technologies? Define code testing. Tell us about the testing process and li...
E29 | A Conversation about DevOps | Vic Phan
November 13, 2020 17:45 - 24 minutes - 22.2 MBIn 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. How did you get into DevOps? What is DevOps? How is DevOps different from Agile? What should developers know about DevOps? How is code...
E28 | A Conversation about Advanced CSS | Mark Ryba
November 02, 2020 22:07 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBIn 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 Javascript? What are style components? Does CSS support variables or conditional statements? What is a CSS pre-processor? Do you need to compi...
E27 | A Conversation about CSS | Mark Ryba
October 12, 2020 21:55 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBIn 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 user experiences. ******************************* Questions Asked ******************************* Tell us about your background. Define CSS. ...
E26 | A Conversation about iOS Development | Cyril Garcia
October 05, 2020 19:12 - 26 minutes - 24 MBIn 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 background. How did you get into iOS app development? What YouTubers helped you on your journey to becoming an iOS developer? How many iOS ...
E25 | Using the Atomic Design System to Build Scalable Web Apps | Juan-Manuel Fluxà
September 27, 2020 17:57 - 24 minutes - 22 MBIn 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 ******************************* Tell us about your background. How large is the technology market in Chile? How did you get involved with Contentful? How big a...
E24 | A Conversation about Search and Content Modeling | Kent So
September 21, 2020 18:02 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBIn 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. How can a company maintain good search quality? What is recall? What is relevancy? What are some attributes that affect relevancy? Tell...
E23 | A Conversation about TypeScript | Jeffrey Parrish
September 14, 2020 14:42 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBIn 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 ******************************* Tell us about your background Do you consider yourself a full stack developer? What do you enjoy the most, front end or back end developm...
E22 | Image Formats and Contentful’s Image API | Allan White
September 07, 2020 18:59 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBIn 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 background. Tell us about the different kind of image formats we should be concerned with. Tell us about the JPEG compression. Tell us about...
E21 | A Conversation about Localization and eCommerce | Diego LaManno
September 04, 2020 16:37 - 39 minutes - 36 MBIn 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 content in your iOT product stored in the back end? Define localization. How is localization different then personalization? Can localization a...
E21 | A Conversation about Localization, eCommerce and Contentful | Diego LaManno
September 04, 2020 16:37 - 39 minutes - 36 MBIn 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 content in your iOT product stored in the back end? Define localization. How is localization different then personalization? Can localization a...
E20 | A Conversation about Postman | Teemu Tammela
August 24, 2020 15:24 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBIn 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 background How did you get into Contenttful? What is Postman? What's your primary use for Postman? What are payloads in an API? Why use Pos...
E19 | A Conversation about Design for Non-Designers | Kim Calderone
August 17, 2020 23:38 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBIn 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 from a UX perspective. For user centered design, is layout or style affected by the user? Is the blueprint more objective versus style being...
E18 | A Conversation about JAMStack | Brian Rinaldi
August 10, 2020 20:38 - 29 minutes - 27.5 MBIn 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 with Adobe, did you work at all with ColdFusion? What is StackBit and what do you do there? Tell us about your book on Static Site Genera...
E17 | A Conversation about Deno | Andres Pirela
August 04, 2020 18:50 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MBToday 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 Asked ******************************* How does a 19 year old work for a large company as a software engineer? How old where you when you first s...
E16 | A Conversation about Javascript | Dan Cortes
July 26, 2020 09:50 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBIn 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 background. What attracted you to Javascript? What do you like the most from Javascript? What would you like to see change in Javascript? Is there ...
E15 | A Conversation about Chatbots | Jordi Torras
July 21, 2020 17:12 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBIn 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 background. Why do you focus on AI (artificial intelligence)? Do you think that computers will ever become self aware? Tell us about Inben...
E14 | A Conversation about GraphQL | Gerard Klijs
July 13, 2020 19:22 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBIn 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 hosted in AWS Lambda? What do you like the most about GraphQL? What is introspection? What's the difference between REST and GraphQL? Tel...
E13 | Migrating from Drupal to Contentful | Teemu Tammela
July 05, 2020 20:24 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBIn 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? What where your goals when migrating into Contentful? What were your responsibilities in the migration project? What was your biggest pain po...
E12 | A Conversation about Design Systems | Matt Felten
June 30, 2020 04:16 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBIn 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 focused on design? What is a design system? How are design systems different from style guides? Does the design system dictate the tools t...
E11 | A Conversation about Rich Text Fields, HTML, JSON and Markdown | Chris Towler
June 22, 2020 14:05 - 38 minutes - 35 MBIn 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? What got you interested in programming? How did you get into Contenful? Please define JSON? What does "stringify" mean from a development's...
E10 | Migrating from Wordpress to Contentful | Ben Greenberg
June 14, 2020 15:39 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBIn 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 did you work on while at Lyft and AirBnB? What made you switch from backend development to frontend development? What's frontend tech stack ...
E9 | Three Architectures for Designing Scalable Contentful Apps | Diego Aguilar
June 07, 2020 20:52 - 26 minutes - 24 MBIn 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 background. What kind of projects do you work on? Tell us about the tech hub in Mexico where you reside. Tell us about your work with Contentf...
E8 | A Conversation about Vue.JS | Robert Mion
May 31, 2020 23:44 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBIn 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 instead of backend development? What is Vue.js? How does Vue.JS compare to JQuery? What attracted you to Vue? Explain what is the MVC, Model...
E7 | A Conversation about ReactJS | Johan Li
May 26, 2020 17:06 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBIn 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 difference between a framework and a library? What does it mean when a framework is opinionated? Is React opinionated? Explain the difference b...
E07 | A Conversation about ReactJS | Johan Li
May 26, 2020 17:06 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBIn 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 difference between a framework and a library? What does it mean when a framework is opinionated? Is React opinionated? Explain the difference b...
E6 | Content Modeling Best Practices | Raul Salido
May 17, 2020 14:06 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBIn 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 content, how to create scalable content, how to best model for a developer friendly experience and more! ******************************* Questions ...
E5 | A Conversation about Node.JS | Roman Hood
May 10, 2020 15:00 - 29 minutes - 40.2 MBToday 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? What did you have to learn to get comfortable with Node? How important is knowing Javascript really well to harness the power of NodeJS? Wha...
E4 | A Conversation about Gatsby and Static Site Generators | Nikan Shahidi
April 26, 2020 10:00 - 15 minutes - 21.9 MBMy 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 ******************************* Tell us about your background. What language did you first code in? Tell us about your firm, WebStacks. Are you g...
E3 | A Conversation about Contentful and Ruby | Teemu Tammela
April 13, 2020 14:00 - 26 minutes - 36 MBIn 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 podcast website. What does it mean to be a Certified Contentful Professional? Why did you switch from PHP to Contentful and Ruby? Why did y...
E2 | A Conversation about APIs, Decoupling and Scalability | Matthew Foyle
March 30, 2020 14:00 - 38 minutes - 52.4 MBIn 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: Tell us a bit about yourself. What caught your interest in the technical side of things? Tell us about Algolia. Can Algolia combine variou...
E1 | A Conversation with Contentful’s Developer Evangelist | Amelia Winger-Bearskin
March 16, 2020 14:00 - 26 minutes - 36.1 MBIn 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 and much more. You can contact our guest, Amelia, at [email protected] or on the Contentful Slack @ameliawb. The following questions were ask...
An Interview with Contentful’s Developer Evangelist, Amelia Winger-Bearskin
March 15, 2020 17:18 - 26 minutes - 36.1 MBIn 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 and much more. You can contact our guest, Amelia, at [email protected] or on the Contentful Slack @ameliawb. The following questions were ask...
E1 | An Interview with Contentful’s Developer Evangelist | Amelia Winger-Bearskin
March 15, 2020 17:18 - 26 minutes - 36.1 MBIn 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 and much more. You can contact our guest, Amelia, at [email protected] or on the Contentful Slack @ameliawb. The following questions were ask...