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Joseph Leedy | Magento Extensions

Welcome to this special tech edition of Talk Commerce, where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce and the communities they work and live in.

This week we interview Joseph Leedy with Wagento Creative. We Discuss Magento extensions and integrations and look at the difference between the two. Joseph helps us understand why merchants need to take some extra time to vet any new extension they install on their website and developers need to be prepared to ask questions on why the extension needs to be installed. We discuss the Magento marketplace and why it is a good place for merchants to look for extensions. Joseph fills us in on what he is working on now and what interesting extensions he worked on in the past. We discuss our Unconference in Orlando Florida in January of 2022 and why Merchants and developers should attend. Joseph Leedy is a Magento developer and certified developer for Wagento Creative, an Adobe Gold Partner. This episode was recorded on July 14th, 2021

Christian Munch | Magerun Headless Magento

Welcome to this tech edition episode of Talk Commerce, where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce and the communities they work and live in. This week we interview Christian Mà¼nch, Head of Development for N98 in Germany. We talk about the history of MageRun, the Swiss Army knife for Magento. We talk about Magento and headless commerce and Christian helps us understand some alternatives to just going headless with a single app.

Magento Hyva theme with Vinai Kopp

Welcome to Talk Commerce, where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce and the communities they work and live in. This week we interview Vinai Kopp who is a big advocate of the new Hyva theme. We discuss why Hyva makes sense for every developer, agency, and merchant. Vinai gives us reasons why Agencies need to embrace Hyva and get their teams on board. He also talks about the benefits for the merchant to use it. We go into the differences between PWA and a monolith and dive into microservices. All this while not getting too technical. You have to listen to this episode to hear Vinai’s opinion on PWA vs Hyva! This episode was recorded on July 7th, 2021

Vinai Kopp talks about the Hyva Theme

Magento Community and the Magento association with Sonja Franz

We interview Sonja Franz ( @sonjarierr )with Integer_net in Germany. We discuss the Magento community, online events, and the Magento association. We talk about diversity in the tech community and what everyone can do to help be more diverse. Even bald white guys. We touch on the new Hyva theme and finish with some ballroom dancing. This episode was recorded on June 10th, 2021

Sonja Franz talks about the Magento Community and the Magento Association

Joseph Maxwell | Developer Training and Education

Welcome to this episode of Talk Commerce, where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce. This week we interview Joseph Maxwell with Swiftotter. We discuss how important it is for a developer to get a certification on an Adobe product. We discuss how everyone on a team should have a certification or accreditation on one Adobe Product. We talk about how agencies need developers to get certified and how merchants need to make sure their agency has certified developers. Joseph introduces his new book “The Art of Ecommerce Debugging” This episode was recorded on May 12th, 2021

Joseph Maxwell talks about developer education

Why the Hyva theme matters in Magento with Willem Wigman

We interview Willem Wigman with Hyva, the revolutionary new Magento theme that will change your life! Did I say change your life? Yes, this shows how powerful the Magento community is and continues to be! We talk about the origin of the name, not to spoil anything, but it’s good. We discuss the impact on site speed for merchants and how Google is changing the game for your website, and how it is ranked. If you are a merchant, you need to share this episode. If you are an Agency, you need to get on board with Hyva and get your Devs teams there too.

This episode was recorded on June 9th, 2021

We learn how to pronounce Hyva from Willem Wigman

Tadhg Bowe | Magento Solutions Specialists

Welcome to Talk Commerce. Where we talk about how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce. This week we interview Tadhg (Tige), Bowe, with Monsoon Consulting. We discuss Magento and the community. Tadhg pronounces Hyva in a different way. We have some notable Irish quotes and a good bit of Craic (That’s fun in Irish) This episode was recorded on May 26th, 2021

Tadhg Bowe talks about Solutions in Magento

Tom Robertshaw | BigCommerce and BigCommerce Apps

Welcome to Talk Commerce. Where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce. This week we interview Tom Robertshaw with Space48 in the United Kingdom. We give a little history on Tom’s e-commerce survey that he started publishing while he was still at University. We get into the ever-growing community on BigCommerce and talk about BigCommerce and BigCommerce Apps. And how could I talk to a Magento Master and not talk a little about Magento. This episode was recorded on May 26th, 2021

Tom Robertshaw talks about BigCommerce Apps

Simply Choose BigCommerce with TJ Gamble

This week we interview TJ Gamble with Jamersan. We discuss BigCommerce and how the choice of simple is often better than complex for your average merchant.  We discuss his show Ecommerce Aholic and how he has garnered worldwide fame from the show.  We close out the episode with another pitch for a Hackathon in Orlando Florida in January of 2022.

This episode was recorded on May 25th, 2021

Brent and TJ talk about Big Commerce