Please start from the beginning... (audio only)
By Ryan Taylor
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Podcast Description
This series explores the career paths and experiences of web industry professionals.
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Bruce Lawson | Bruce Lawson evangelises Open Web Standards for Opera. He's been active in Web Standards since 2002, working with the Web Standards Project, the British Standards Institution's guidance on commissioning accessible web sites and the W3C Mobile Best Practices Working Group and co-authored "Introducing HTML5" (www.introducinghtml5.com), the first full-length book on the subject. He blogs at www.brucelawson.co.uk. He once kissed a girl and he liked it (the taste of her cherry chapstick). | 27 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Remy Sharp | Remy is the founder and curator of Full Frontal , the UK based JavaScript conference. He also runs jQuery for Designers , co-authored Introducing HTML5 (adding all the JavaScripty bits) and is one of the curators of HTML5Doctor.com . Whilst he's not writing articles or running and speaking at conferences , he runs his own development and training company in Brighton called Left Logic . Generally speaking, he's about as crazy about JavaScript, HTML & CSS as a squirrel is about his nuts during the winter! | 28 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Patrick McNeil | Patrick McNeil is a designer, developer and author of the Web Designer’s Idea Book . He manages Design Meltdown , a collection of hand picked and cataloged web sites where he explores design trends and themes. In this weeks show Patrick talks to me about his recent decision to go freelance and his upcoming book The Designer’s Web Handbook . | 20 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Naomi Atkinson | Naomi Atkinson has worked in the design industry for over 9 years, working at three leading London agencies with world renowned clients such as Audi, British Telecom, Macmillan Cancer Support and Aviva. She started her own business Naomi Atkinson Design in 2010 so she can work more closely with her clients and offer what she believes to be a better, and more rewarding service. Her work has been featured in Design Week and .net magazine and she'll be speaking at Inspire later this year. | 12 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Oliver Waters | Oliver Waters is the co-creator and designer of Momento, the hugely popular iPhone app that collates and organises all your social feeds in a single place as well as allowing you to make diary entries of those little moments in life you want to remember. This week I talk to Oliver about his career and experiences of turning an app, originally started as a side-project into a fully fledged business. | 28 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brendan Dawes | Brendan is Creative Director for magneticNorth, a digital design company based in Manchester, UK. Over the years he’s helped realise projects for a wide range of brands including Sony Records, Diesel, BBC, Fox Kids, Channel 4, Disney, Benetton, Kellogg’s, The Tate and Coca-Cola. In 2009 he was listed among the top twenty web designers in the world by .net magazine and was featured in the “Design Icon” series in Computer Arts. | 26 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Roan Lavery | Roan Lavery is the Lead Designer and co-founder of FreeAgent, the best online accounting software out there (note: I do use the software so I am bias but it is pretty damn good). In this interview Roan takes me through how he made the transition from Creative Director for a web agency in Edinburgh to running FreeAgent as a full-time business. If you're building or run a web app yourself you're going to really enjoy this interview. | 24 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ethan Marcotte | Ethan Marcotte is an Interactive Design Director at Happy Cog. He's a contributing author to Handcrafted CSS, Web Standards Creativity and Professional CSS and has recently collaborated with Jeffery Zeldman on the third additional of his classic Designing with Web Standards. Ethan has also been a featured speaker at SXSW Interactive festival, An Event Apart, Harvard University and AIGA’s In Control conference. Check out his blog at unstoppablerobotninja.com and find him on twitter under @beep. | 24 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tara Hunt | Tara Hunt is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, karaoke lover and one of the most influential women in technology (according to Fast Company Magazine in 2009). In this weeks episode Tara talks to me about how she got started and her career to date, her love for karaoke, writing her book The Whuffie Factor, her experiences with public speaking and what she?s most excited about. You can find Tara on her personal site HorsePigCow. | 11 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mathew Patterson | Mathew Patterson is head of the customer support team at Campaign Monitor. Based in Sydney, Australia (so a late night recording for me) he has a background as a web designer, has spoken at a number of conferences including Future of Web Design New York and Web Directions and is awaiting the release of his first book with Sitepoint on HTML Emails (title not yet confirmed). In this weeks episode Mathew talks to me about his career, overcoming his shyness and the challenges of writing. | 28 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paul Annett | Paul Annett is a Senior Designer at Clear Left. He's spoken at a number of conferences about design and is the creator of the most popular magic trick on Google (Disclaimer: May not be true, but he's near the top at least.). In this weeks episode Paul talks to me about his career to date, how the Duty Calls cartoon is him (According to Relly), and what he's most excited about in the industry today. | 8 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Richard Rutter | Richard Rutter is one of the co-founders of Clear Left and is also heading up the highly anticipated FontDeck. Richard started out as a Chemical Engineer before turning his hobby of building websites into a career. In this weeks episode he takes me through his career so far and what lead him to establishing one of the most respected agencies in the industry. | 20 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chris Lea | Chris Lea works for Media Temple. He does the systems engineering work for Virb.com and conducts research into emerging technologies the the hosting provider may want to pursue. You'll find him on the conference circuit having recently spoken at FOWA London. In this weeks episode Chris takes me through his career, how Media Temple has grown and his plans for the future. | 5 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ben Bodien | Ben Bodien arrived in the web industry via a fuel depot explosion and an economic crisis. He's co-founder & principle of Neutron Creations, a development agency based in London, that are quickly making a name for themselves, collaborating with well know designers such as Elliot Jay Stocks and Tim Van Damme. In this weeks episode, Ben takes me through he career to date and his experiences of starting his own business. | 22 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Andrei Zmievski | Andrei Zmievski is a web developer and founding member of Analog, prior to this he was Open Source Fellow at Digg and a platform engineer at Yahoo. Andrei is also a core developer of PHP and a member of the PHP Group. | 10 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Leif Steiner | Leif Steiner is the Creative Director for Moxie Sozo, a 17 strong design agency based in Boulder, Colorado. Leif has infectious enthusiasm for the world of design and in this weeks episode he takes me through his career and direction his company is taking. | 6 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Eric Meyer | Eric Meyer is Principal Consultant at Complex Spiral and co-founder of An Event Apart with Jeffery Zeldman. He has written numerous books on CSS and web standards and is recognised the world over for his work. On this weeks episode Eric takes be through his career in the web, what he?s doing now and his plans for the future. | 6 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Greg Wood | Greg Wood is a Web Designer at Erskine Design (the lucky sod! :-P). He?s quickly building a great reputation for breaking the mold on his personal site, a couple of my personal favourites being Top 5 reasons to learn to dive and Top 5 Spielberg films. On this weeks episode Greg takes me through how he works, his career to date and his plans for the future. | 6 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alex Hunter | Alex Hunter is an Independent Digital and Branding Ninja. He?s worked for the likes of AT&T, Virgin America and Virgin Group and he speaks regularly at conference such as FOWA London and Miami. In this weeks episode Alex takes us through his career and gives his advice on how you could get into the field of marketing and branding. | 6 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chris Mills | Chris Mills is a Web Evangelist & Dev Relations Editor for Opera (or Opera Jackass for short), his main role is technical writing and editing for dev.opera.com and labs.opera.com, he?s also put together the excellent Web Standards Curriculum which is a must read for anyone starting out or needing to update their skills. In this weeks episode Chris takes me through his career and his goals for the future. | 6 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Christian Heilmann | Please start from the beginning? with Christian Heilmann 2 Nov 2009 3 Comments Posted in Please start from the beginning... Christian Heilmann is an Developer Evangelist working for Yahoo!, he is author of the extremely long titled, Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting & Ajax: From Novice to Professional. Christians role takes him all over the world and in this weeks episode he talks to me about what his job entails and the path his career took to get him there. He also speaks very fast. | 6 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jeremy Keith | Jeremy Keith is the co-founder of Clear Left, author of Dom Scripting and Bullet Proof Ajax and Lineman for the County? In this weeks episode Jeremy takes me through his career as a busker, bumming around Europe through to forming one of the most respected agencies in the country. | 6 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rick Ellis | Rick Ellis is the Founder and CEO of EllisLab, the company that bring us the amazing ExpressionEngine and CodeIgniter framework. This week Rick takes me through his previous career in music and love for the web. | 6 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kat Neville | Canadian born Kat Neville is a freelance designer and front-end developer. In this weeks episode Kat tells me the story behind her website Safety Goat and takes me through her career as in the print industry before moving into the web. | 6 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joe Stump | Joe Stump is now Co-Founder and CTO of SimpleGeo, before that he worked at Digg as their Lead Architect. In this weeks episode Joe takes me through his fascinating career and talks about some of the mind-bogglingly huge sites he?s worked on. | 6 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Relly Annett-Baker | Relly Annett-Baker is a web copywriter running her own business at Poppy Copy and has held workshops at events such as Future of Web Apps. In this weeks episode Relly joins me to discuss her career and how she got into the area of copyrighting. | 6 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Andy Clarke | Andy Clarke is a designer, speaker and author of Transcending CSS. Based in North Wales he runs his own business, Stuff and Nonsense. In this weeks episode Andy talks about how be began his working life making My Little Ponies right through to to teaching CSS in workshops all over the world. | 6 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Inayaili de Leon | Inayaili de Leon is a Web Designer working for FoxLand. She has written numerous, enlightening, articles for Smashing Magazine and posts regularly on her personal site Web Designer Notebook. | 6 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Marcus Lillington | I?ve finally nail down Marcus Lillington, Business Development Director of Headscape and co-host of Boagworld, to discuss his career to date, his laid back attitude and his time as a pop star? | 6 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Natalie Downe | Natalie Downe is a front-end engineer for Clear Left see can also be found on her personal site natbat.net. Natalie joins me this week to discuss her career and her unusual entry into the industry. | 6 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rachel Andrew | Rachel Andrew is the Managing Director of her company Edge of My Seat and author of a number of development books, she has run her own company since 2001 specialising in development, however she began her career doing something entirely different? Note: Rachel works with Drew McLellan (who has also participated in this series). | 6 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cennydd Bowles | Cennydd Bowles is a User Experience Designer for Clear Left. In this weeks interview Cennydd shares is genuine enthusiasm for his area and takes me through the career that has lead him to this point. | 6 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Amy Mahon | Canadian born, Amy Mahon is a designer working for blubolt, a design agency based in Bath who specialising in eCommerce solutions. Amy joins me to discuss her experiences of emigrating to England and her career to date. | 6 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Simon Collison | Simon Collison, speaker, author and Creative Director of Erskine Design joins me this week to discuss his career and show off his huge Batman mug. | 6 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dan Rubin | The half British ? half American, designer, author, speaker and cappella singer Dan Rubin, joins me this week to discuss his career, experiences and all round passion for life and the things he does. Health Warning: It is recommended that you take regular breaks during the viewing of this interview to avoid DVT and NBS (Mr Rubin can talk). | 6 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Elliot Jay Stocks | The renowned Mr Elliot Jay Stocks: designer, illustrator, speaker and author of Sexy Web Design, joins me to discuss his fascinating career and his experiences along the way. | 6 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ryan Carson | Ryan Carson, trilby wearing entrepreneur and founder of Carsonified ? the organisers of such noteworthy events as Future of Web Design and Future of Web Apps ? joins me to discuss his career and share his advice. | 4 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sarah Parmenter | Sarah Parmenter, web developer (who does design) of You Know Who Design started her own business at just 19. In this weeks episode Sarah has graciously agreed to share her experiences and impart her advice to those of you out there that may be in the similar position of setting up on your own. | 4 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jonathan Snook | Jonathan Snook, author of Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs, and Libraries, Lead Developer at Square Space and collective member of Sidebar Creative joins me to discuss his career as a freelancer and his decision to move to Square Space. | 4 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mel Kirk | The lovely Random Mel Kirk, Online Marketing Manager for White Label Dating joins me to discuss her career and have a chuckle. Technical note: I apologies for the quality of the audio on my end. I've tried to improve it best I can but alas, it's not great. But not to worry. It's Mel that you want to hear not me. :-) | 30 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Drew McLellan | Drew McLellan, Director and Senior Developer of Edge of My Seat and creator of 24ways.org, joins me to discuss his career path. | 30 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paul Boag | The infamous “web strategist” of Headscape and host of the award winning boagworld podcast, Paul Boag, joins me to discuss his beginnings and the path he has taken to get to where he is today. Paul has kindly submitted to being the first in a series of video interviews that I’ll be producing entitled “Please start from the beginning…” where I pose the simple questions “What do you do today?” and “How did you get to this point?”. I find talking to industry professionals about their backgrounds, what decisions they’ve made, lucky breaks that have presented themselves and the how’s and when’s useful and inspirational. It’s my hope that you will too. | 30 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 42 Episodes |
- Free
- Category: Business
- Language: English
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