Al een paar keer heb ik het idee gehad om met WordPress mensen door de grachten van Amsterdam te varen. Het was iets wat ik graag 27 Mei tijdens de 10 jarig bestaan van WordPress had willen doen maar dit had betekent dat er geld voor moest worden gevraagd. Tevens leek het weer ook niet […]
Collaboration between universities and open source projects
This year I’m going to help out with Google Summer of Code (GSoC) within WordPress. GSoC is an event where students work the whole summer on an open source project. This is pretty cool since students spent a lot of time on a project and it can result in something cool. This year I’m really […]
Recent open source projects I worked on
The last few months I have been working on a few open source projects. It’s something I enjoy to do and also need to do for myself. Like today I have been working on making WordPress MU Domain Mapping working when the WordPress code is in a subdirectory. This is the case when you use WordPress […]
How my previous jobs has made me a better person
History When I graduated in July 2010 I first wanted to do some experience at a company. I did my internship at theFactor.e and it made sense to also start working there. It was an awesome time and it’s a great company to work at. In my job as iOS developer I just struggled to much […]
How WordCamp Europe is organized is a joke
The current way how WordCamp Europe is organized is a joke to me. It was claimed by a group of people without even checking who else wanted to organize it. That is something that irritates me since such kind of WordCamp should be elected somehow. It isn’t a small event and it can be misused for […]
First Meetup Serbia
First meetup Serbia is a fact. Yesterday we had an awesome start and it was great to see how many people came to the office of ManageWP. There were lots of questions and some nice discussions because of that. It is a shame that my Serbian is not that good yet and that I didn’t […]
Going to experiment with blogging
It’s always a pain to blog about something where you want to talk pages long about something and then you don’t blog at all. So I decided to do some short paragraph blogging with a maximum of 10 paragraphs. I’m not going to say that it always will happen because some things like WordSesh need […]
My opinion about the WordCamp guidelines
November last year I wrote a blog post about how to organize a WordCamp. Even I never organized one I do visit a lot of WordCamps. Most of the time I even talk with the organizers. In this short post I’m trying to explain the best I can why I think some of the rules […]
Interview on WP Engine
Austin Gunter from WP Engine interviewed me and you can find the interview at http://wpengine.com/2013/02/marko-heijnen/. The intro text is just brilliant. Especially the part about the relatively small village Erica I live in. It’s not relatively small, it is just a small place to live in. Hopefully you like the interview and you know me a little bit […]
GlotPress
The last couple of days I started to build GlotPress into a WordPress plugin. GlotPress is a collaborative, web-based software translation tool. What is pretty awesome. But the issue a lot of people having including me is that it isn’t easy extendable. You can create plugins for it but there isn’t an way to download […]
Meetups and WordCamp Norway in January
The last month I visited the meetup in London, pre meetup in Belgrade, meetup in Enschede and WordCamp Norway. Lots of traveling in the weekends but so much fun. Meeting friends and creating new ones is something I love to do. And also I was able to spoke two times about the new media flow […]
2012-2013: The past and the future
Personal The past Well, first dealing with personal, what to say about this. I do know the start was interesting. I got sued by my old boss because of my talk at WordCamp Norway. I didn’t do anything wrong except that I even once worked at a fucked up company like that. But yeah lesson learned […]