Thijs Feryn's podcast
18 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 7 years ago -Tech evangelist at Combell. PHPBenelux board member. PHP community member. International conference speaker. Travel hacker. Code, systems & automation.
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Juozas Kaziukėnas - E-commerce marketplaces, cars & cycling
July 04, 2017 07:32 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBJoe is back! The previous time a sat down with Juozas "Joe" Kaziukėnas (https://twitter.com/juokaz) was back in 2016. There was a video malfunction, but the audio was intact: https://soundcloud.com/thijsferyn/juozas-kaziukenas In this interview we have video (https://youtu.be/sQpQUjB-UX4) and we focus on everything that happened after his time as a digital nomad and his relocation to New York City. Fast-forward: Joe is tech entrepreneur who founded a company called Marketplace Pulse (https:...
Jenny Wong - From PHP to WordPress
June 10, 2016 08:25 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBJenny Wong (https://twitter.com/miss_jwo) is a community engineer at Human Made (http://hmn.md). The interview was recorded at the very first WordCamp Antwerp in Belgium (https://2016.antwerp.wordcamp.org). The video footage of this interview is available on Youtube: https://youtu.be/fsdYyA6SeC8. Read the blog post: https://blog.feryn.eu/jenny-wong-php-wordpress/ In this interview we talk about how Jenny and I met. We also talk about Jenny's background, her involvement with PHP and her tran...
Ruben Romero from Varnish Software
April 21, 2016 00:00 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MBThis episode features Ruben Romero (https://twitter.com/ruben_varnish). Ruben is director of community engagement at Varnish Software (https://varnish-software.com) in Oslo Norway. The video interview is up on Youtube: http://feryn.link/1pFxvs4 Varnish Software is the company behind Varnish Cache (https://varnish-cache.org), the popular open source HTTP accelerator. In this interview, we obviously focus on Varnish. We talk about the origin story, we talk about the role of Ruben in both the...
Victor Welling of Coolblue - e-commerce & tech at Coolblue
March 21, 2016 12:25 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBThis episode features Victor Welling (https://twitter.com/victorwelling). Victor is a so-called "Technical Pathfinder" at Coolblue (https://coolblue.nl). Coolblue is one of the hottest e-commerce companies in the Benelux area. They primarily focus on consumer electronics, but as Victor puts it: "We sell anything that fits into a box". The video of this interview is up on Youtube: https://youtu.be/7keuTckfhIM In this interview we talk about the magical formule for which Coolblue is so famou...
Peter Gasston - Commoditization of Artificial Intelligence
March 18, 2016 00:00 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBPeter Gasston (https://twitter.com/stopsatgreen) is a front-end developer and web technologist that works for +rehabstudio (https://www.rehabstudio.com) in London. Read the blog post about this interview: https://blog.feryn.eu/peter-gasston-commoditization-of-artificial-intelligence. The video is up on Youtube: https://youtu.be/_qremcORl9A This interview was recorded in Rome at Codemotion 2016 (http://www.codemotionworld.com) where Peter presented his "OK Computer" presentation (https://spe...
Peter Maynard - An Englishman in Belgium, Microsoft, Liverpool & banter
March 16, 2016 12:09 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBPeter Maynard (https://twitter.com/lilepeeps) is a Senior Audience Evangelism Manager at Microsoft. He focusses on Emerging Audiences and is part of the Developer Experience team in Belgium & Luxembourg (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/belux/). This episode also has video, it's up on Youtube: https://youtu.be/iia3FaW30_I Peter is an Englishman, hailing from the North West of England. He now lives in Belgium. We talk about what it's like living in Belgium as a "foreigner". The majority of ...
Juozas "Joe" Kaziukėnas - Digital nomad, being homeless & living in New York
March 06, 2016 17:53 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBJuozas "Joe" Kaziukėnas (http://juokaz.com) is a tech entrepreneur and digital nomad, currently living in New York. Joe is Lithuanian and moved to Edinburgh (Scotland) for his studies. During his time at university, he also got involved in open source communities. He traveled to conferences and eventually became an international conference speaker. After graduating, he decided he wanted to move to New York to start a career as a tech entrepreneur. Being young and somewhat naive, he sold hi...
Derick Rethans - MongoDB, Xdebug & PHP
February 21, 2016 14:28 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBI had a nice chat with Derick Rethans (https://twitter.com/derickr) at PHPBenelux Conference 2016 (http://conference.phpbenelux.eu). We talked about how he became a British citizen, how Michael Schumacher encouraged him to learn PHP and a bunch of other random things. We also talked about Derick's career and open source contributions. Derick works at MongoDB (https://www.mongodb.com/) where he focuses on the PHP driver and library. Derick Rethans is the author and maintainer of Xdebug (htt...
Cal Evans - Personal branding, developer advocacy & community
February 14, 2016 10:33 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MBIn this episode I'm interviewing Cal Evans (https://twitter.com/calevans) at PHPBenelux Conference 2016. Check out the video footage on Youtube: https://youtu.be/pGJ6nN_otaw Cal was invited as the keynote speaker which he was very excited about. He had keynoted our very first edition back in 2010 and now he was back. The central theme of the 2016 edition was "Welcome To The Jungle". We went all-out and decorated the expo hall like an actual jungle. This explains the setting of the intervie...
Bastian Hofmann - Talking about ResearchGate, Berlin & PHPBenelux
February 08, 2016 09:21 - 17 minutesMy friend Bastian Hofmann (https://twitter.com/bastianhofmann) was flying to Brussels to speak at the PHPBenelux Conference (http://conference.phpbenelux.eu) that I organize. I picked him up from the airport, put him in my car and talked to him about his work, the city he lives in and the conference he is traveling to. Bastian works at ResearchGate (https://www.researchgate.net), an online platform where scientists and researchers can share information. The company was founded by researche...
Michael Heap - Left his laptop on the plane, PHPBenelux, Datasift & Frequent Flyer miles
February 01, 2016 17:23 - 21 minutes► Follow me on Twitter - http://twitter.com/ThijsFeryn ► Watch my videos on Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/thijsferyn ► Subscribe on iTunes - http://itunes.feryn.eu ► Read my blog - http://blog.feryn.eu ► Check my presentations - http://talks.feryn.eu Michael Heap (https://twitter.com/mheap) was traveling to Belgium to speak at the PHPBenelux Conference (http://conference.phpbenelux.eu/). Unfortunately, he left his laptop on the plane. This interview was done in my car while I was drivin...
Fabrizio Branca - Talking about Magento & living in the Bay Area
November 30, 2015 08:37 - 16 minutesThis is the last interview of my Zendcon 2015 series (http://zendcon.com) and we're ending it with Fabrizio Branca (https://twitter.com/fbrnc). The video of this interview is up on YouTube: https://youtu.be/iekc2OEZGEc Fabrizio works at AOE (https://www.aoe.com/en/) and is primarily known for his involvement in the Magento community. He has a bunch of Magento modules to his name and is well-respected within the community. Magento is the main subject of our conversation and that will come a...
Interviewing ContinuousPHP in the Nevada desert: tech & community in Luxembourg
November 23, 2015 10:56 - 11 minutesThis interview was recorded in the Nevada desert and features Frédéric Dewinne (http://twitter.com/fdewinne) and Oswald De Riemaecker (http://twitter.com/oswald_odr) from ContinuousPHP (https://continuousphp.com). The video footage is up on Youtube: https://youtu.be/_lDlkSI2w_k ContinuousPHP is a PHP Platform As A Service they founded. The platform focuses on continuous delivery and continuous deployment specifically in the PHP space. In the interview we talk about how Frédéric and Oswald ...
The Drupal 8 origin story with Larry Garfield
November 19, 2015 08:58 - 19 minutesThis episode was recorded at Zendcon 2015 (http://zendcon.com) in the Green Room of The Joint (https://www.hardrockhotel.com/las-vegas-concerts/the-joint) at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The video footage is available on Youtube at https://youtu.be/XGFF99Xj_io In this interview with Drupal Core contributor Larry Garfield (https://twitter.com/crell) we hear about the origin story of Drupal 8. Larry addresses the key objectives of Drupal 8 and the technical challenges that lead...
Interviewing Adam Culp from Zend, talking about ZendCon, SunshinePHP, SoFloPHP & ultra running
November 09, 2015 08:17 - 21 minutesThis interview features Adam Culp (http://twitter.com/adamculp) from Zend (http://zend.com). Adam is the organizer of ZendCon (http://zendcon.com), SunshinePHP (http://sunshinephp.com) & SoFloPHP (http://soflophp.org). As usual, the video footage is up on Youtube: https://youtu.be/wH0ic_jMXKI The chat we had was recorded in the green room of The Joint (https://www.hardrockhotel.com/las-vegas-concerts/the-joint), the concert venue of the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The setting h...
Interviewing Gary Hockin from JetBrains
November 06, 2015 13:47 - 27 minutes - 50.5 MBThis interview was recorded at Zendcon 2015 in Las Vegas (http://zendcon.com). The video footage for the interview is op on Youtube: https://youtu.be/85m1mQE9pDk I'm having a conversation with Gary Hockin (http://twitter.com/geeh) from JetBrains (http://jetbrains.com). Gary is Welsh a developer evangelist and advocates their PHPStorm product (http://jetbrains.com/phpstorm). We talk about the PHPStorm IDE, JetBrains, Developer Evangelism, PHP Community Conferences, Traveling & Public Spea...
Interviewing Jeremy Coates, the organizer of the PHP North West Conference
October 19, 2015 17:17 - 33 minutes - 60.5 MBThis episodes features Jeremy Coates (http://twitter.com/phpcodemonkey). Jeremy is the organizer of the PHP North West Conference (http://conference.phpnw.org.uk) in Manchester UK. Jeremy is also the founder and CEO of Magma Digital (http://www.magmadigital.co.uk), a PHP Web Development Agency based in Manchester. This is the audio part of a video interview that is up on youtube. If you want to check out the video footage, go to https://youtu.be/6Ii98zJAA1Q. We talk about organizing commu...
Interview with Kristof De Jaeger
September 27, 2015 19:56 - 18 minutes - 33.3 MBInterviewing Kristof De Jaeger (@Swentel) at Drupalcon Barcelona 2015. The conversation is part of a video interview. You can watch the interview on https://youtu.be/jel2c0o_AYU Kristof is a Drupal core contributor and community legend. He also runs a company called "eps & kaas" https://twitter.com/swentel https://www.epsenkaas.be