Application: The TYPO3 Community Podcast

Application: The TYPO3 Community Podcast

November 19, 2020 Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire, Open Strategy Partners, TYPO3 Association Season 1 Episode 0
Application: The TYPO3 Community Podcast
Application: The TYPO3 Community Podcast
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Welcome to Application, the TYPO3 Community Podcast! Hosted by Jeffrey A. McGuire, this is where we share your stories, your projects, and the difference you make ... in, around, and with TYPO3 CMS. 

Application is conversations connecting developers, marketers, consultants, integrators, designers, and end-users with each other and the value we all deliver. 

As we meet the community, we will be looking for insights that we can all learn from. We’ll be asking about our guest’s origin stories, clients, projects and successes. 

Meet the humans behind the technology!



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Jeffrey McGuire:

Welcome to Application, the TYPO3 Community Podcast! I'm Jeffrey A. McGuire, people call me "jam." And this is where we celebrate the TYPO3 community, sharing your stories, talking about your projects, and the difference you make in ... around ... and with TYPO3 CMS.

Rachel:

I mean type of three, it's not only because of the technical reasons and the tool, but also the community.

Jeffrey McGuire:

As we meet that community, I'll be looking for insights we can learn from.

Tomas:

It comes to your perspective on how you see things because Sure, I'm one kind of person, I learn in one way, you're a different kind of person, you probably learn in different way.

Luisa:

I love seeing that people are motivated by what I am doing, and what the marketing team, for example, is doing, because I get lots of good feedback. And that motivates me to do better. And then that's like a cycle that repeats.

Jeffrey McGuire:

I'll be asking about my guests origin stories.

Benni:

Well, that's a good question. So I turned my hobby into a profession. That's why I started my own company. I like coding. ... Of course, I have a lot of ... or a few other hobbies. But TYPO3 is fun for me. And that's why I do it. And not because I work somewhere and get money.

Jeffrey McGuire:

We'll talk clients projects and successes.

Tomas:

The biggest project I've done so far was the Sony PlayStation Network. Not that small. That was a setup with I think, around 99 languages.

Jeffrey McGuire:

Wow, nice! Application is conversations connecting developers, marketers, consultants, integrators, designers, and end users with each other, and the value we all deliver. What's the coolest thing you've ever done with TYPO3 so far?

Luisa:

The coolest thing is probably, we did a completely new site for an existing customer, which they had a type of installation before, which was based on I think v7.6, we were actually able to convince them to start fresh. And we did a completely new concept and completely build the whole customer management structure new. So that was really cool.

Jeffrey McGuire:

Meet the humans behind the technology on Application, the TYPO3 Community Podcast! Don't forget to like and subscribe! ... Coming to a podcast app near you. So for a little taste of the kind of conversations we're going to be having on this podcast, TYPO3 Project Lead, Benny Mac and I were talking recently, and along the way, we ended up talking about how it is to work during a pandemic, and how that might be better ... or worse than things used to be. Here we go. This conversation is taking place in later 2020. And as we can tell from your home-level beard, and home office and, and kids' craft room, and the fact that I haven't had a haircut since February. But um, yeah, um, how's your year been?

Benni:

Well, I was actually, ... well, of course, the year started completely different in January, February, than it turned out to be in March and April. So, I have to get used to having lots of kids around. I have three. And that's been quite good. But at the same time, I felt a little bit of demotivation during the summer, in terms of like coding and the future and where everything's going, not just the TYPO3, but you know, for myself, but that's actually get better. So right now, as of November 2020, I would say it's, it's a really different, but also a good year for myself. Because I'm still healthy. We'll see in two weeks. Yeah, but from from that point of view, that's, that's quite good. And ... but different. And that's sometimes a good thing that ... even though you think it's ... it's not as you planned, it's still a good thing that things moved a different route. So I like that.

Jeffrey McGuire:

I guess we're getting a gigantic dose of perspective this year as well. So now, just between you and me, would you rather have the three kids running around and doing crafts behind you or your 25 colleagues, running around and doing crafts around you in the office?

Benni:

Well, if the 25 colleagues would do crafts. I don't know if I would like that. But the three kids are really great. So that's not bothering me at all ...

Jeffrey McGuire:

Achim would come to you, "Benni, can you help me cut this out?"

Benni:

Yes. And I have these great headphones ...

Jeffrey McGuire:

"Where's the blue crayon?"

Benni:

The noise cancelling headphones, I put them on and it's like, "I don't want to hear anything." ... shutting myself out ...

Jeffrey McGuire:

The head of ... what was it at the time? ... DevOps kind of didn't exist. The head of infrastructure at the company I worked at ... it was one of those horrible group offices that I don't like much, with a bunch of people in the same room. And so the, it was funny because it was like a very large "L" shape. And the main entrance was at the end of the long end. And so that's where the reception area was, and the end there like the plants and where you brought clients for meetings and stuff. And then all the way down, you had sort of like HR and finance. And then you had project management. And then you sort of had, you know, marketing and sales was in there. And then you go around the corner. And they are the developers. And then behind the developers with an extra-high cubicle wall was like the, the operations and the sysadmin guys. And like, at the developer area, there started to be posters, and Legos and stuff. And basically, by the time you got all the way to the back of the back of the room, they were like, permanently mounted Nerf guns, and, you know, large, large dinosaurs and stuff. Anyway, what one of the guys of courseto cope with being in a group officehe were super, super sophisticated noise cancelling headphones. But his boss, who was the VP of engineering, I guess, could never get his attention. And we didn't have Slack at that point. What did ... You know? There wasn't a company internal chat. So anyway, the VP of engineering had Nerf Darts that said,"Michael turn around!" "Michael, look at me!" he would shoot him until ... until he brought him out of his flow ...

Benni:

My wife is doing this. She's like [sound of light switch flipping], she's just working with the lights, because that's how she gets my attention[with my headphones on].

Jeffrey McGuire:

So for those of you for those of you listening to the audio that the visual to that was the lights going on and off in Benni's room ... Thanks to the TYPO3 Association for sponsoring this podcast. Thank you, b13, and Stephanie Kreuzer for our logo. Shout out to the fabulous Patrick Gaumond, TYPO3 developer and musician extraordinaire, for the studio demo rough-cut of our theme music! And thanks to the people and voices you heard today! Conversations with Rachel Foucard. Luisa Fabender, Tomas Norre, Bennni mack, and many others will be in your feed in the coming months. If you subscribe!